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Microfiche 

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CIHM/ICMH 
Collection  de 
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Canadian  Institute  for  Historical  Microreproductions  Instltut  Canadian  de  microreproductions  historiques 

1980 


Technical  and  Bibliographic  Notes/Notes  techniques  et  bibliographiques 


The  Institute  has  attempted  to  obtain  the  best 
original  copy  available  for  filming.  Features  of  this 
copy  which  may  be  bibliographically  unique, 
which  may  alter  any  of  the  images  in  the 
reproduction,  or  which  may  significantly  change 
the  usual  method  of  filming,  are  checked  below. 


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Coloured  covers/ 
Couverture  de  couleur 


□    Cover'^  damaged/ 
Couverture  endommag6e 

□    Covers  restored  and/or  laminated/ 
Couverture  restaur6e  et/ou  pelliculde 

□    Cover  title  missing/ 
Le  titre  de  couverture  manque 

I — I    Coloured  maps/ 


Cartes  giographiques  en  couleur 

Coloured  ink  (i.e.  other  than  blue  or  black)/ 
Encre  de  couleur  (i.e.  autre  que  bleue  ou  noire) 

Coloured  plates  and/or  illustrations/ 
Planches  et/ou  illustrations  en  couleur 


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Bound  with  other  material/ 
Relid  avec  d'autres  documents 

Tight  binding  may  cause  shadows  or  distortion 
along  interior  margin/ 

La  reliure  serr6e  peut  causer  de  I'ombre  ou  de  la 
distortion  le  long  de  la  marge  intdrieure 

Blank  leaves  added  during  restoration  may 
appear  within  the  text.  Whenever  possible,  these 
have  been  omitted  from  filming/ 
II  se  peut  que  certaines  pages  blanches  ajoutdes 
lors  d'une  restauration  apparaissent  dans  le  texte, 
mais,  lorsque  cela  6tait  possible,  ces  pages  n'ont 
pas  6t6  filmdes. 

Additional  comments:/ 
Commentaires  suppl6mentaires: 


L'Institut  a  microfilm^  le  meilleur  exemplaire 
qu'il  lui  a  6t6  possible  de  se  procurer.  Les  details 
de  cet  exemplaire  qui  sont  peut-dtre  uniques  du 
point  de  vue  bibliographique,  qui  peuvent  modifier 
une  image  reproduite,  ou  qui  peuvent  exiger  une 
modification  dans  la  mdthode  normale  de  filmage 
sont  indiqu6s  ci-dessous. 

□    Coloured  pages/ 
Pages  de  couleur 

□    Pages  damaged/ 
Pages  endommag6es 

□    Pages  restored  and/or  laminated/ 
Pages  restaurdes  et/ou  pelliculdes 

0  Pages  discoloured,  stained  or  foxed/ 
Pages  d^colordes,  tachetdes  ou  piqudes 

□    Pages  detached/ 
Pages  ddtachdes 

□    Showthrough/ 
Transparence 

□    Quality  of  print  varies/ 
Quality  indgale  de  I'impression 

□    Includes  supplementary  material/ 
Comprend  du  mat6riel  supplementaire 

□    Only  edition  available/ 
Seule  Edition  disponible 


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Pages  wholly  or  partially  obscured  by  errata 
slips,  tissues,  etc.,  have  been  refilmed  to 
ensure  the  best  possible  image/ 
Les  pages  totalement  ou  partiellement 
obscurcies  par  un  feuillet  d'errata,  une  pelure, 
etc.,  ont  6t6  film6es  d  nouveau  de  fapon  d 
obtenir  la  meilleure  image  possible. 


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This  item  is  filmed  at  the  reduction  ratio  checked  below/ 

Ce  document  est  film*  au  taux  de  reduction  indiqu6  ci-dessous. 


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The  copy  filmed  here  has  been  reproduced  thanks 
to  the  generosity  of: 

National  Library  of  Canada 


L'exemplaire  film6  fut  reproduit  grSce  d  la 
g6n6rosit6  de: 

Bibliothdque  nationale  du  Canada 


The  images  appearing  here  are  the  best  quality 
possible  considering  the  condition  and  legibility 
of  the  original  copy  and  in  keeping  with  the 
filming  contract  specifications. 


Original  copies  in  printed  paper  covers  are  filmed 
beginning  with  the  front  cover  and  ending  on 
the  last  page  with  a  printed  or  illustrated  impres- 
sion, or  the  back  cover  when  appropriate.  All 
other  original  copies  are  filmed  beginning  on  the 
first  page  with  a  printed  or  illustrated  impres- 
sion, and  ending  on  the  last  page  with  a  printed 
or  illustrated  impression. 


The  last  recorded  frame  on  each  microfiche 
shall  contain  the  symbol  — ►  (meaning  "CON- 
TINUED"), or  the  symbol  V  (meaning  "END"), 
whichever  applies. 

Maps,  plates,  charts,  etc.,  may  be  filmed  at 
different  reduction  ratios.  Those  too  large  to  be 
entirely  included  in  one  exposure  are  filmed 
beginning  in  the  upper  left  hand  corner,  left  to 
right  and  top  to  bottom,  as  many  frames  as 
required.  The  following  diagrams  illustrate  the 
method: 


Les  images  suivantes  ont  6t6  reproduites  avec  le 
plus  grand  soin,  compte  tenu  de  la  condition  et 
de  la  nettetd  de  l'exemplaire  film6,  et  en 
conformity  avec  les  conditions  du  contrat  de 
filmage. 

Les  exemplaires  originaux  dont  la  couverture  en 
papier  est  imprim6e  sont  filmds  en  commenpant 
par  le  premier  plat  et  en  terminant  soit  par  la 
dernidre  page  qui  comporte  une  empreinte 
d'impression  ou  d'illustration,  soit  par  le  second 
plat,  selon  le  cas.  Tous  les  autres  exemplaires 
originaux  sont  filmds  en  commengant  par  la 
premidre  page  qui  comporte  une  empreinte 
d'impression  ou  d'illustration  et  en  terminant  par 
la  dernidre  page  qui  comporte  une  telle 
empreinte. 

Un  des  symboles  suivants  apparaitra  sur  la 
dernidre  image  de  cheque  microfiche,  selon  le 
cas:  le  symbole  —^  signifie  "A  SUIVRE",  le 
symbols  V  signifie  "FIN". 

Les  cartes,  planches,  tableaux,  etc.,  peuvent  dtre 
filmds  d  des  taux  de  reduction  diffdrents. 
Lorsque  le  document  est  trop  grand  pour  dtre 
reproduit  en  un  seul  cliche,  il  est  filmd  d  partir 
de  Tangle  supdrieur  gauche,  de  gauche  d  droite, 
et  de  haut  en  bas,  en  prenant  le  nombre 
d'images  ndcessaire.  Les  diagrammes  suivants 
lllustrent  la  mdthode. 


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PUBLISHED  BETfTEEN  THE  TEJRS 


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Liures,  de  regarderfilsfoat  /eifremiers  qui 
ayeni  tfti  compofez  fur  la  maticrt  tie  laqutlU 
ill  traiaent,  parce  qu'il  tft  dt  la  daarint  dtt 
homtnti  commt  de  Ptau,  qui  rCefi  iamait  plut 
belle,  plui  claire  &  plus  nttte  ju'a  fa  fouree. 
G.  Naudi,  Advis  povr  drefler  »ne 
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INTRODUCTION. 


Wr/o  eljaemia  conjiflunt  in  lihris,  quorum 
emolumcnta  nulla  men,  fufficeret  tnarrure. 

R.  i>i£  BuRv,  Hhilobiblion.  cap.  xv. 


I. 


HE  abnegation  practiced  by  true  scholars  in  every 
branch  of  knowledge  is  one  of  the  most  interest- 
ing and  striking  features  of  the  age  in  which  we 
live.  With  the  recognition— daily  more  and  more 
absolute— of  the  inter-dependence  of  the  sciences, 

th.s  abnegation  has  come  to  be  the  test  of  scholastic  worth  and 

loyalty. 

As  Herbert  Speiicer  admirably  expresses  it,  every  single  fact 
of  observation  and  discovery  now  has  "  to  be  digested  by  the 
organ.sm  of  the  sciences"  ere  it  can  be  m.de  available  for  the 
development   of  the  work   to  which    its   special    discoverer   or 
observer  may   give   the  glory  and   strength   of  his  life.     And 
hence  we  see,  and  see  with  a  just  pride  in  the  intellectual  eleva- 
t.on  ot  our  epoch,  the  scholars  and  students  .f  the  world  practice 
H  degree  ot  self-denial  hitherto  most  -mcommon,  revere  a  reli- 
gion of  scence  which  reaches  us   that  we  are  all   "members 
one  of  another,    and  cause  studies  apparently  the  most  dissimilar 
•"   then   scope  and  objects  to  converge  upon  the  genesis  of  a 
general  scence,  not  yet  perfected,  but  wherein  all  scientific  ele- 

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merits  may  one  day  find  their  absolute  connection,  and  assume 
a  true  philosophical  character.  ^ 

In  this  praiseworthy  communion,  it  becomes  as  practicable  as 
it  is  necessary  at  once  to  subdivide  every  field  of  inquiry,  and  to 
unite  and  concentrate  all  separate  efforts  upon  investigations  of 
a  positive  kind.  Nor  less  by  it  is  every  teacher  and  student 
strengthened  to  resist  the  fatal  seductions  of  that  inner  voice  which 
is  forever  lifting  itself  rebelliously  against  the  limits  imposed 
upon  human  knowledge  by  human  nature,  and  forever  prompting 
hypotheses  which  really  minister  only  to  individual  vanity  and 
weakness,  while  they  delay  the  genuine  advance  of  learning. 

To  accept  and  exercise  this  virtup  of  our  age  is,  it  must  be 
confessed,  comparatively  easy.  For  while  every  day  opens  new 
horizons  to  our  gaze,  the  very  basis  upon  which  we  strive  to 
build  our  systems  and  erect  our  hypotheses  is  perpetually  giving 
way  under  that  incessant  accumulation  of  materials  which  re- 
sults in  every  direction  of  inquiry  from  the  increasingly  active 
consensus  of  all  the  sciences.  Nevertheless,  let  all  fit  honor  be 
paid  to  those  who  practice  this  virtue,  who  control  the  constant 
aspirations  of  the  mind  after  the  unknowable,  who  select  for 
themselves  a  sphere  of  modest  labor,  and  who  give  to  the  ex- 
haustive investigation  of  a  single  class  or  order  of  facts  all  their 
talents,  their  time  and  their  energy. 

Not,  indeed,  that  we  fully  share  the  dazzling  hopes  enter- 
tained by  so  many  earnest  inquirers,  especially  in  that  vast  field 
of  historical  studies,  one  secondary  section  of  which  we  have 
made  it  our  duty  to  till,  with  what  results  this  volume  must 
attest.  It  seems  to  us,  for  instance,  over-bold  to  assert  that  we 
shall  ever  find  in  historical  facts,  when  accumulated  and  ana- 
lyzed, a  new  latent  power  adequate  to  bring  forth  a  science 
which  shall  unfold  the  universal  force  always  present,  active  and 
supreme,  in  the  history  of  humanity,  and  shall  exhibit,  through  the 
medium  of  historical  similitudes,  a  progressive  march  of  mankind 
toward  a  necessary  end — no  longer  undefined  and  mysterious. 

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But  even  if  we  are  required  to  abandon  the  hope  of  so 
surpassing  a  result  of  our  patience  and  our  perseverance,  noble 
prizes  still  remain  to  be  won.  A  clearer  understanding  of  the 
secret  workings  of  human  nature,  a  juster  and  a  wiser  appre- 
ciation of  the  disparity  which  exists  between  our  mental  powers 
and  the  most  imposing  of  the  problems  which  mankind  so  pas- 
sionately yearns  to  solve,  may  compel  us  to  put  aside,  and  for 
years  to  come,  all  questions  which  concern  primary  and  final 
causes.  But  there  will  yet  be  left  to  us  crucial  problems  worthy 
of  the  loftiest  intellect,  lying  incontestably  within  the  grasp  of 
the  human  mind,  fraught  with  great  teachings,  and  fit  to  engage 
in  their  solution  the  united  efforts  of  all  men  truly  devoted  to 
scientific  studies. 

Pascal  says  that'  "  non  seulement  chacun  des  hommes  s'avance 
de  jour  en  jour  dans  les  sciences,  mais  tous  les  hommes  ensemble 
y  font  un  continuel  progres,  a  mesure  que  I'univers  vieillit." 
This  proposition  implies  a  progress  already  achieved.  Let  the 
historian,  then,  describe  this  curious  and  necessary  evolution  in 
the  history  of  man — not  by  hypothetical  generalities,  but  by  the 
light  of  well-ascertained  facts,  and  in  the  real  order  of  succession. 
The  march  of  mankind,  from  Engis*  to  Athens,  is  surely  exten- 
sive enough  to  satisfy  the  most  ambitious  inquirer  !  This  prog- 
ress seems  to  involve  a  development  in  accordance  with  ascer- 
tainable laws.  It  is  the  province  of  the  historian  to  set  forth 
the  premises  from  which  these  laws  can  be  deduced  and  demon- 
strated. Such  a  development  must  have  necessarily  taken  place 
in  forms  varied  and  multifarious,  running  sometimes  parallel, 
though  with  unequal  rapidity.  The  historian  may  show  its 
starting-points,  land-marks  and  resting-places,  its  divergences 
and  its  return  to  homogeneity ;  he  may  assay  for  us  the  modicum 
of  truth  which  underlies  our  sternest  beliefs,  and  rivet  anew  the 
links  of  a  chain  disconnected  by  ignorance  or  superstition. 

'  Preface  mr leTraitedu  yide,\n  Pcnseci,  ^  Vide  the  late  works   ot'  Huxley  and 

Fragments,Sic.,de Pascal, puhties  par  M.V.     Lyell,  and   especially   the   lectures   deliv- 
Faugere;    Paris,  1844,  8vo,  Vol.  i,  p.  98.     ered  by  VoG-»in  1862-4. 


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iv  Introduction. 

If  any  important  results  have  already  been  attained  in  studies 
of  this  character,  it  is  due  to  the  subdivision  of  each  and  every 
field  of  inquiry.  But  the  work  of  analysis  must  be  carried  still 
further.  No  subject  should  be  deemed  too  insignificant  to  enlist 
the  entire  attention  of  series  and  successions  of  students ;  and 
when,  in  consequence,  and  as  the  glorious  reward  of  this  con- 
centration of  labor,  the  subject  so  investigated  again  exhibits  an 
opening  for  a  new  division,  this,  in  its  turn,  must  be  probed  by 
new  men  and  with  adequate  means.  It  is  thus  that  in  the  exact 
and  natural  sciences  such  marvelous  progress  has  been  accom- 
plished. History,  we  know,  is  not  based  upon  the  observation  of 
identical  phenomena,  and  no  one,  therefore,  as  we  have  already 
suggested,  can  hope  to  see  this  science  keep  pace  with  Chemistry, 
Astronomy  or  Natural  Philosophy  ;  but  from  a  union  of  all  the 
pursuits  which  have  the  least  bearing  on  man,  his  past  and  his 
place  in  creation,  we  may  possibly  find  that  several  of  the  ques- 
tions which  have  so  long  exercised  the  ingenuity  of  the  most  acute 
thinkers,  will  eventually  admit  of  a  solution.  And  when  we  con- 
sider these  sciences  philosophically,  we  are  surprised  to  find  how 
easily  they  may  be  connected  with  a  view  to  the  solution  of  such 
questions.  Geology  and  Palaeontology  enable  us  to  see  man  in 
his  first  stage  not  only  of  physical  but  of  intellectual  develop- 
ment j  Archaeology  brings  to  light  his  earliest  efforts  in  art ; 
Philology  gives  us  the  history  of  his  origin  and  migrations ; 
Literature  reveals  to  us  his  dearest  traditions,  and  the  primitive 
aspirations  of  his  poetical  genius.  But  each  of  these  sciences  is 
in  itself  complex  and  extensive.  Divide  and  subdivide  them  into 
as  many  and  as  minute  sections  as  the  mind  can  conceive, 
and  every  fragment  will  yet  require  the  use  of  all  the  means 
which  we  can  apply  to  the  survey  and  analysis  they  require. 
From  every  such  subdivision,  indeed,  arises  a  new  necessity,  de- 
manding a  still  greater  abnegation ;  for  the  task,  in  proportion  as 
its  field  is  enlarged,  becomes  ever  more  and  more  thankless. 
This  is  eminently  true  in  reference  to  the  study  of  the  mechan- 


Introduction.  y 

ical  means  which  the  votaries  of  these  sciences  must  possess  ;  to 
the  pursuits  of  those  who  devote  themselves  to  devise  and  per- 
fect instruments  to  alleviate  the  efForts  of  synthetic  philosophers 
and  historians  ;  to  the  modest  callings  which  aim  at  placing  withm 
the  reach  of  others,  whosoever  they  may  be,  appliances  which 
rarely  fail  to  impart  method,  logic  and  precision.  Bibliography 
is  concerned  with  one  great  class  of  these  appliances,  and  we 
may  be  pardoned,  pen.aps,  a  ftw  words  in  regard  to  the  imme- 
diate bearing  of  this  science  on  the  subject  now  before  us. 


II. 

The  assertion  of  Caspar  Thurmann? :  "  Notitia  librorum  est 
dimidium  studiorum,"  has  not  been  considered  an  exaggeration 
of  the  claims  of  bibliography  by  historians  who  strive  to  elucidate 
facts  in  lieu  of  ventilating  theories  and  reinforcing  opinions.    All 
that  survives  to  us  from  the  past  of  positive  knowledge  has  been 
preserved  in  books  and  manuscripts.     Traditions,  even  among 
semi-barbarous  races,  are  no  longer  intrusted  to  the  memory  of 
those  who  cherish  the  remembrance  of  their  ancestors  and  of 
their  deeds  :  they  find  a  lasting  shrine  in  the  printed  word.     And 
when  we  consider  that  we  have  inherited  at  least  forty  centuries 
of  recorded  facts,  and  that  annals  hitherto  engraved  on  stone  are 
now  transferred  into  books,  which  are  thus  carrying  back  the 
accessible  history  of  man  to  periods  heretofore  shrouded  in  dark- 
ness and  mystery,  it  will  easily  be  admitted  that  he  is  no  trust- 
worthy historian  who  can  seize,  without  a  thrill  of  gratitude,  the 
hand  which  alone  may  lead  him  unerringly  through  so  vas't  an 
accumulation  of  materials.     The  science  of  Bibliography  limits 
its  claims  to  this  right  and  duty. 

'  apud  Abbe  Rive,  Prospectus  (fun  au-         See  also  Cm-rnm  n.o  u 


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Introduction. 


A  bibliography  is  not  necessarily  a  list  of  books  contained  in  a 
certain  library  ;  but  even  when  limited  by  this  modest  definition, 
it  yet  possesses  a  value  which  subsists,  and  is  available,  long  after 
the  books  described  may  have  been  scattered  or  destroyed.  A 
mere  title  frequently  supplies  the  historian  with  the  link  which 
alone  can  impart  a  logical  connection  to  this  work.  This  title 
may  lead  him  to  study  a  book,  which  was  perhaps  unknown  to 
his  predecessors  in  the  same  line  of  investigation,  -'nd  from  this 
stud;  he  may  often  acquire  a  knowledge  of  certain  facts  which 
shall  cause  him  to  alter  the  entire  plan  of  his  work*.  Viewed, 
indeed,  in  its  proper  light,  a  well-constructed  catalogue  of  books 
is  simply  a  luminous  chronology  of  intellectual  facts,  and  there 
is  no  Bibliotheca  Philosophlca  which  does  not  exhibit,  in  a  more 
or  less  striking  degree,  the  history  of  the  human  mind.  But  it  is 
in  the  exact  sciences  that  catalogues  are  fraught  with  their  most 
useful  teachings.  We  see  in  them  at  a  glance  the  attempts  and 
theories,  often  teeming  with  errors,  which  have  paved  the  way 
for  the  discovery  of  those  great  truths  never  to  be  wrung  again 
from  our  grasp.  Do  not  the  quaint  titles  affixed  to  the  works 
of  Lulli,  Paracelsus,  Agricola,  Bruno,  or  Cardan,  give  us  an 
insight  into  that  curious  process  from  which  arose  in  due  time 


*  We  may  here  cite,  as  an  instance  in 
point,  the  greatest  historical  composition  of 
modern  times,  Augustin  Thierry's  His- 
toire  dt  la  Conquite  de  PAngleterre  par  les 
Norman,!;.  Our  readers  doubtless  recollect 
that  in  thh  immortal  work  the  author  de- 
picts in  vivid  colors  the  history  of  the  van- 
quished, and  finds  in  Thomas  a  Becket  the 
personification  of  the  Anglo-Saxon  race  and 
the  champion  of  its  rights  against  the  Nor- 
man dynasty.  The  ninth  chapter  is  con- 
sidered the  keystone  of  the  history,  as  it  re- 
lates exclusively  to  the  memorable  struggle 
between  Henry  II  and  the  Archbishop  of 
Canterbury,  who,  to  his  dying  moments, 
remains  the  champion  of  an  oppressed 
people.  Thierry  was  preparing  a  new 
edition  of  his   work   for  the   press,  when 


a  catalogue  of  modern  books,  which  had 
escaped  his  notice,  was  handed  him  by  a 
friend.  It  contained  the  title  of  a  work 
which  purported  to  give  a  faithful  tran- 
script of  the  Lambeth  and  Fitz-Stephen 
manuscript.  This  single  advertisement 
was  sufficient  to  destroy  the  entire  frame- 
work of  Thierry's  History  :  Thomas  a 
Becket,  the  bold  protector  of  the  Anglo- 
Saxon  race,  was  no  longer  himself  an 
Anglo-Saxon,  but  disappeared  in  Thomas 
Bequet,  a  Norman  by  birth  and  parentage  ! 
The  discovery  preyed  upon  the  mind  of 
Augustin  Thierry  for  years,  but,  prompted 
by  his  love  for  truth,  which  was  dearer  to 
him  than  all  his  theories,  he  intended  to 
remodel  his  History;  unfortunately  he  died 
without  accomplishing  his  work. 


Introduction.  vii 

the  only  true  science?     We  grant  that  the  meaning  suggested 
by  a  mere  name  can  only  be  appreciated  by  him  who  brings 
to   its   observation  a   certain   degree  of  Jcnowledge,  which   no 
succinct  catalogue  of  books  can  ever  give  ;  but  a  title,  if  properly 
set  forth,  will  teach  the  reader  at  what  time  it  was  that  a  given 
thought,  now  trite  and  unnoticed,  first  assumed  a  positive  char- 
acter.     The   title  repeated  at  a  later  period  shows  a  progress 
accomplished  ;  a  succession  of  editions  marks  its  diffusion  ;  the 
controversies  which  follow,  its  importance;  and  accordingly  as 
the  work  which  it  identifies  disappears  altogether  from  subse- 
quent records,  or  maintains  its  place  in  then,  the  student  may, 
by  comparison,  ascertain  to  what  extent  its  influence  continues 
still  to  be  felt. 

Information  of  this  character  may  be  derived  from  a  mere 
list;  but  when  the  works  are  classified  in  the  order  of  subjects, 
the  divisions  assume  a  philosophical   bearing  of  great   import.' 
Our   readers  are  aware   that,  independently  of  the  immediate 
utility  which  arises  from  a  methodical  arrangement,  classifica- 
tions  pertain  to  metaphysics.      Aristotle,  Bacon,  D'Alembert, 
Daunou,  Ampere,  have  made  classification  the  object  of  their 
highest  efforts ;  yet  there  is  no  bibliographer  who  is  not  required 
to  follow  in  their  wake,  and  to  impart  to  the  frame-work  of  a  bib- 
liography the  philosophical  character  which  these  great  thinkers 
failed  to  perfect.     Aldus'  Libri  graci  impress!  may  be  considered 
a  mere  printer's  catalogue,  intended  solely  to  invite  the  public  to 
purchase  his  books ;  yet,  in  the  primitive  classification  it  sets 
forth,  and  which  is  composed  of  only  five  sections  {Grammatica, 
Poetica,  Logica,  Philosophia,  Sacra  Scriptura),  we  see  an  evidence' 
of  the  necessity  which  forces  itself  upon  every  enlightened  bib- 
liographer to  go  beyond  a  mere  enumeration  or  index.     The 
Pandectarum  of  Conrad  Gesner,  and  the   Tableaux  of  Christofle 
de  Savigny,  which   may  have  served  as   a  model  for  Bacon's 
divisions,  show  that  Bibliography  requires  of  its  votaries  some- 
thmg  more  than  perseverance  and  attention.     Even  when  these 


vni 


Introduction, 


are  the  only  faculties  which  the  bibliographer  can  bring  to  bear 
upon  the  science,  he  is  frequently  interrogated  to  ascertain  who 
was  the  originator  of  an  idea,  the  discoverer  of  a  fact,  or  the 
inventor  of  a  system,  either  in  History,  Literature,  Science  or 
Philosophy  ;  and  this  simply  because  his  compilation  gives  an 
exact  date  or  describes  a  book  with  accuracy.  How  many 
popular  traditions  have  been  shown  to  be  erroneous  by  a  single 
reference  to  catalogues  of  this  description' ! 

But  whether  we  consider  Bibliography  as  an  indispensable 
means  to  explore  thr  sources  of  literature  and  of  the  historical 
sciences,  or  as  the  competent  guide  which  leads  conscientious 
critics  to  the  knowledge  of  the  subjects  they  are  called  upon  to 
discuss,  it  is  evident  that  its  sphere  of  usefulness  may  be  greatly 
extended.  There  is  no  reason  why  the  bibliographer  should 
limit  his  efforts  to  a  faithful  transcription  of  titles,  coupled  with 
n.nute  collations.  He  may,  without  trespassing  upon  the  prov- 
ince of  Belles-Letties,  give  the  history  of  the  book,  enumerate 
its  contents,  ascertain  its  precise  place  in  the  chronology  of 
literature,  state  the  references  which  mark  its  influence  in  the 
preparation  of  other  works,  quote  the  opinions  expressed  by 
competent  critics,  divulge  its  author  or  editor  when  published 
anonymously,  and,  if  it  be  devoid  of  imprint,  discover  the  date 
at  which,  and  the  place  where,  it  was  printed,  and  by  what 
printer.  He  must,  furthermore,  describe  the  typographical  pecu- 
liarities of  the  book,  the  changes  they  inaugurate,  and  their 
bearing  upon  the  history  of  the  art  of  printing.  Nor  should  he 
neglect  to  group  around  each  title  the  data  which  may  enable 


•  ''Quand  on  saura  que  le  Don  Sluichotte 
a  eu  cinq  editions  I'annee  meme  qui  le  vit 
paraitre;  que  le  poeme  des  Lusiades,  quoi- 
que  ecrit  en  une  langue  d'un  usage  tres- 
limite,  a  eu  deux  editions  dans  sa  nou- 
veaute,  et  une  troisieme  quelques  annees 
apres ;  quand  on  aura  remarque  que  la 
presse  anglaise  a  frequemment  reproduit  du 
vivant  de  leur  illustre  auteur,  I'Hamlet. 
rOthello,  le  Romeo,  et  les  autres  chet's- 


d'aruvres  de  I'Angleterrc,  on  n'accusera  plus 
les  contemporains  de  Cervantes,  de  Ca- 
moens  et  de  Shakspeare,  d'avoir  meconnu 
le  merite  de  ces  grands  hommes,  et  Ton 
reconnaitra  que  I'absence  de  lois  veritable- 
ment  protectrices  de  la  propriete  litteraire 
a  ete,  sinon  la  seule,  du  moins  la  principale 
cause  de  la  misere  dans  laquelle  les  deux 
premiers  ont  vecu." — Brunet,  Manuel, 
Introduction,  p.  xix. 


?^^^F^v^,"-'f^'-^(T|»*r 


Introduction. 


IX 


critics  to  correct  errors  and  to  elucidate  every  point  in  contro- 
versy.    As  the  reader  will  perceive,  these  requirtTients  seem  to 
imply  that  a  perfect  bibliographer  should  be  so  gi.'ted  as  to  be 
able    to   concentrate   upon    his    investigations    the    multifarious 
labors   of  a   Mabillon,   an   Audiffredi,  a   Bayle  and   a   Mylius. 
Yet,  It  IS  a  question  with  us,  whether  bibliographers  are  entitled 
to  express  any  opinion  of  their  own,  or  to  decide  a  single  ques- 
tion beyond  the  matters  connected  with  what  we  may  call  the 
external   characteristics  of  the  book.     They  are  only  expected 
to  furnish  critics  with  sources  of  information,  and  to  trace  to 
the  fountain-heads  all  current  statements,  whether  true  or  erro- 
neous,  concerning   the   subjects   of  their  study.     The  task  of 
extracting  from   the   materials   thus   supplied   the  synthesis  re- 
quired, devolves  exclusively  upon  the  historian.     Bibliography 
thus   understood,   it   will   be   seen,   assumes   an  encyclopaedical 
character,  which   we   deem   necessary   to   bring  the   science  in 
closer  connection  with  historical  studies. 

We  are  aware   that   to   limit  the  province  of  bibliographers 
to  labors  so  arid  and  uninviting,  is  to  thrust  out  of  the  career 
many  inquisitive  scholars   who  are  willing  to  make  strenuous 
exertions   for  the  benefit   of  collateral  branches  of  knowledge, 
but  v.ho  cannot  easily  bring  themselves  to  abdicate  their  right 
of  ju.V::,g  and  deciding.      Yet  it  should  surely  be  considered  a 
meritorious  occupation  for  bibliographers  to  bring  into  play  the 
analytical  powers  demanded  by  the  sphere  to  which  we  would 
confine   them  ;  and  whatever  may   be  the  privations  involved, 
we  hold  that  no  one  should  devote  himself  to  Bibliography  who 
cannot  regard  that  occupation  as  both  adequate  and  honorable. 
He  only  is  "  called  and  chosen"  to  such  labors,  indeed,  who  seeks 
in  books  a  solace  and  a  refuge,  and  loves  them  chiefly  for  the 
sake  of  the  independence  which  they  confer^ 


•  "  O    libri  soli   liberies   et   liberi,  qui     titis  vobis  sedulo  servientes  I"     Richard  n- 
omn,  petent.  tnbu.t.s,  et  omnes  manumit-     Bukv,  Philobiblhn,  cap    ,.' 


Introduction. 


#« 

':-^ 


III. 


The  subdivision  which  we  suggest,  of  the  component  parts  of 
every  branch  of  science,  may  be  said  to  have  been  carried  into 
effect  in  Bibliogriphy.  The  Bibl'wtheca  Kibliographica  of  Dr. 
Julius  Petzh61d7  exhibits  a  numoer  of  bibliographical  works  for 
almost  every  subject.  It  is  not  our  province  to  cite  or  describe 
such  special  repertories,  but  it  behooves  us  to  mention  all  the 
bibliographies  exclusively  devoted  to  America  which  have  come 
to  our  notice. 

Early  in  the  seventeenth  century,  the  vast  coast-line  which 
hems  the   New   World   had   already   been   surveyed.     Shouten 
doubling  Cape  Horn  in  1616  had  marked  the  extreme  limit  of 
the  southern  hemisphere,  while  in  the  same  year  William  Baffin 
had  sailed  to  the  seventy-eighth  degree  of  north  latitude  and  dis- 
covered the  bay  which  now  bears  his  name.     Immense  regions 
in  the  interior  of  the  continent  still  remained  unknown,  but  the 
colonies  of  different  European  nations  were  rapidly  encroaching 
on  the  wilderness,  and  already  encircled  the  who)'-  hemisphere 
with  a  chain,  to  the  completeness  of  which  but  a  few  links  were 
lacking.     The  continent  was  daily  growing  in   importance  to 
the  people  of  Christendom  not  only  as  an  inexhaustible  source 
of  revenue  to  different  European  Powers,  but  as  a  vast  field  for 
immigration  and  for  the  development  of  commerce.     True  it  is 
that  the  names  of  Cibola,  L'el  Dorado,  Quivora  and  Tiguex  had 
not  entirely  lost  the  magic  influence,  which,  nearly  a  century 
before,  had  led  a  Vasquez  de  Coronado,  a  Nuno  de  Guzman  and 
an  Orsua  to  undertake  fruitless  expeditions,  of  which  these  bold 
adventurers  fell  the  first  victims  ;  but  such  illusions  pertain  to 


Leipzig,  1866,  8vo,  pp.  10  +  939. 


imt 


"^ 


■  ^■ 


Introduction. 


XI 


for 
It  is 
had 

ntury 

and 

bold 

in  to 


human  nature,  and  we  see  them  exercise  the  same  damaging 
power  over  the  mind  of  men  at  all  tim«  >  and  everywhere". 

It  would  be  rash  to  assert  that  the  crafty  statesmen  who  at 
that  time  ruled  Spain,  France,  England  and  Holland,  shared  the 
delusions  which  prompted  so  many  Europeans  to  cast  their  lot 
in  the  New  World.  It  was  not  the  Fountain  of  Youth  which 
Philip  of  Spain  and  Elizabeth  of  England  had  in  view  when 
they  encouraged  maritime  expeditions  to  America,  but  a  market 
for  their  manufactures  and  seaports  for  their  navies.  We  hear 
of  a  Spanish  fleet  sailing  in  1602  from  Acapulco  to  California, 
but  although  the  production  of  gold  in  Peru  and  Mexico  had 
risen  in  the  year  1600  from  three  to  eleven  million  dollars  per 
annum,  this  precious  metal  was  not  even  mentioned  among  the 
objects  of  the  expedition  ;  and  Sebastian  Vizcaino  received  no 
other  instructions  than  to  find  a  safe  harbor  for  the  galleons  on 
their  way  homeward  from  the  Philippine  Islands'.  The  colonies 
were  gradually  emerging  from  that  state  of  absolute  tutelage, 
which  checked  all  individual  efforts,  and,  in  imitation  of  the 
military  colonies  established  by  the  Romans  in  Bruttium  and 
Campania,  seemed  to  have  no  other  object  than  to  exhaust  the 
resources  of  the  country  for  the  benefit  not  even  of  the  con- 
quering power,  but  of  a  few  privileged  adventurers.  John  III 
of  Portugal  Jiad  already  broken  ground  for  the  division  into 
twelve  captainships,  which  was  destined  to  initiate  the  prosperity 
of  Brazil ;  and  James  I  of  England  had  commissioned  Governor 
Yeardley  to  establish  a  provincial  legislature  in  Virginia.  Spain, 
even,  striving  to  keep  a  watchful  eye  over  her  distant  posses- 


'  "  M.  de  Humboldt  ayant  dans  sa  der- 
niere  edition  [de  VExamen  Critique  ?J 
donne  de  nouveaux  details  sur  ce  fameux 
Uc  de  Guatavitu  ou  s'accumplissaient  Ics 
actes  de  I'ancien  Dorado,  et  ou  Ton  sup- 
pose que  de  nombreux  tresors  sont  enlouis, 
une  compagnie  anglaise  s'empara  de  cette 
revelation  historique  et  se  constitua  pour 
I'exploitation   du    lac.      Malheureuseinent 


les  resultats  ne  repondirent  pas  a  I'attente 
des  speculateurs,  et  ils  eurent  I'etrange 
pensee  de  traduire  le  nom  de  I'illustre  voy- 
ageur  a  la  barre  du  Parlement." — Denis, 
Le  monde  Enchanti  ;  Coimograpiie  et  Hit- 
toire  Naturelle  fantaitiques  du  Moyen  Age  f 
Paris,  1845,  i8mo,  p.  288,  note. 

'  TuKquEMADA,  Moiiarquia  Indiana,  lib. 
V,  cap.  45  and  55. 


xii  Introduction. 

sions,  had  framed  a  judicious  system  of  laws'°,  which,  had  they 
not  been  thwarted  in  the  application  by  the  rapacious  and  reck- 
less adventurers  whose  nefarious  influence  was  still  felt  two 
centuries  after  the  conquest,  would  have  proved  a  blessing 
instead  of  a  bane  and  a  curse  to  the  vast  regions  over  which 
they  were  extended. 

This  constant  interposition  of  the  European  governments, 
and  the  growing  prosperity  of  the  American  colonies,  naturally 
increased  the  interest  which  individuals  took  in  the  geography, 
history  and  laws  of  America,  either  for  the  purpose  of  trade  or 
immigration,  and  created  a  corresponding  demand  for  works 
from  which  the  required  information  might  be  obtained.  We  see, 
therefore,  sometimes  under  the  direct  influence  of  the  govern- 
ment, but  generally  at  the  cost  of  booksellers  or  of  companies 
interested  in  promoting  immigration  from  certain  localities,  books, 
pamphlets,  broadsides  and  maps  multiply  at  the  beginning  of  the 
seventeenth  century  with  amazing  rapidity.  The  great  works 
of  Hakluyt,  Herrcra,  Linschotten  and  Wytfliet,  with  their  nu- 
merous translations,  are  of  that  period.  The  splendid  publica- 
tions of  the  Brothers  De  Bry  and  of  Hulsius,  parts  of  which 
have  been  so  frequently  altered  and  reprinted  that  a  perfect 
collection  is  almost  an  impossibility,  show  that  the  demand  for 
works  of  this  description  had  already  reached  certain  spheres 
where  beauty  in  the  execution  was  deemed  paramount  to  truth 
or  reliability.  The  curious  and  extensive  list  of  English  pla- 
quettes  and  pamphlets  begins  in  1602,  with  the  Brereton  and 
Waymouth  books,  which  were  soon  followed  by  a  succession 
of  tracts  relating  to  New  England  and  Virginia,  the  number  of 
which  is  truly  surprising".    The  Diary  of  W.  Cornelitz  Shouten 


'°  Cf.   J.    Gutierrez    de  Rubalcava,  Espalloles  con  sus  cotonias  en  las  Indias  Oc- 

Tratado  historico  politico  y  legal  del  Comer-  cidentales ;   Madrid,   1 797,  4to,  and  Cam- 

cio;   Madrid,    1750,   4ti),    R.   Antunez   y  voMANes  A/jeri,lice  j  la  Edurcacion  popular. 

AcEvr.Do,  Memorias  Hisliricas  soire  la  Le-  "  Cf.  Bikliolheca  Barlowiana,f.  16,  sj., 

giilacion  y    Gobierno   del  Comercio   de   los  and  Part  n  of  Bibliotheca  Broivniana, 


Introduction. 


«  •  • 

xni 


opens,  in  1617,  the  era  of  Dutch  pamphlets",  many  of  which 
come  to  light  daily,  and  increase  beyond  all  expectation  the  list 
of  such  works. — We  have  seen  an  entire  shelf  covered  with  the 
dirt'erent  editions  and  translations  of  the  lirevissima  relacion  of 
Las  Casas,  published  in  the  sixteenth  and  seventeenth  centuries. 
The  Mexican  and  Peruvian  presses  begin  at  that  time  to  furnish 
their  contingent  of  American  books,  while  the  works  of  Les- 
carbot  and  Champlain  pave  the  way  for  the  Jesuits'  Relations^ 
then  comparatively  numerous  and  now  so  rare. 

A  catalogue  of  all  these  publications  was  certainly  needed  ; 
yet,  the  only  special  list  of  books  relating  to  America  which 
seems  to  have  been  published  from  the  time  when  the  Roman 
presses  first  published  the  Epistle  of  Columbus  in  1493"  '"  ^^^ 
year  1625,  is  the  meagre  chapter  dc  Scriptorihus  Rirum  Amer'i- 
canarum  in  the  Bibliothcca  C/assica  of  Draudius''*,  that  "  Cata- 
logue mal  digere  des  foires  de  Francfort,"  as  Baillet  justly 
calls'5  this  miserable  compilation.  It  was  left  to  a  native  Ameri- 
can, Pinelo,  to  frame  the  first  and  best  Bihl'iotheca  Americana. 

Born  in  Peru  and  educated  in  Lima''',  Antonio  de  Leon  y 
Pinelo  commenced  at  a  very  early  age  to  take  a  lively 
interest  in  the  geography,  laws  and  history  of  this  con- 


PlNELO. 

1629. 


tinent.  Having  been  bred  to  the  bar,  he  concentrated 
his  efforts  on  a  digest  of  the  numerous  ordinances  which  had 
been  enacted  for  the  regulation  of  the  Indies'?.  But  as  such  a 
compilation  required  extensive  researches  into  the  archives  of 
Spain,  he  repaired  to  Seville,  when,  after  having  been  appointed 
a  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  Colonies,  he  received  the 
important  office  of  Chronicler  of  the  Indies,  which  had  already 


"  Cf,  Tromel,  BMhthique  Amirkainc, 
p.  29,  jy. 

"  Nos.  I,  I,  3,  4. 

"  Francofurti  ad  Mofnum,  1622,  4to. 
If  our  memory  serves  us  right,  the  Sii- 
liotheca  Historica  of"  Balduanus,  which 
was  published  five  years  before,  docs  not 
classify  separately  the  works  relating  to 
the  New  World. 


"  Jugemem  des  Savons,  Vol.  11,  p.  7. 

'*  Antonio,  Bihliotheca  Hispana  Nova, 
Vol.1,  p.  139;  Franckenau,  Bibliothtca 
Hispanica,  p.  38.  The  reference  in  the 
latter  to  J.  Flores  be  Ocariz,  Genealogias 
del  nuevo  Reyno  de  Granada  (Madrid, 
1674,  fol.),  Vol.  I,  p.  295,  leads  only  to 
an  insignificant  marginal  note. 

"  See  infra,  p.  39a,  ly. 


XIV 


Introduction. 


been  filled  with  so  much  credit  by  Ovicdo,  Hcrrcra  and  Davila 
y  Padilla.  It  was  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties  that  Leon 
Pinelo  prepared  a  history  ot*  the  Council  of  the  Indies'",  to  which 
he  intended  to  add,  at  the  request  of  the  Chief  Justict  of  the 
Council,  an  analysis  or  description  of  every  work,  whether 
printed  or  in  manuscript,  relating  to  the  Spanish  possessions 
beyond  the  seas"',  liut  instead  of  publishing  this  vast  repertory, 
which  was  actually  composed^',  and  would  have  proved  in- 
valuable to  subsequent  bibliographers,  he  only  printed  in  1629 
an  abridgement  or  Epitome"  "  como  primicia  de  mis  [susj  largos 
estudios,  i  suma  de  mayor  Bibliotcca,  (|ue  superior  mandato 
anticipo  a  la  estampa"."  This  Epitome  may  be  considered  the 
first  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

The  plan  of  the  work  is  remarkable.  The  four  main  sections 
are  composed  of  a  Bihlioteca  Oriental.,  a  Biblioteca  Occidental.,  a 
Bihlioteca  Nautica,  and  a  Biblioteca  Geografica.  The  second  of 
these,  which  is  the  only  one  that  interests  us,  is  subdivided  into 
historians  who  wrote  concerning  the  Indies  in  general,  and  those 
who  treat  of  particular  countries,  such  as  New  Spain,  Florida, 
Peru,  &c.  Religions,  Linguistics,  Jurisprudence  and  Natural 
History  form  separate  chapters.  Leon  Pinelo  intended  to  add  two 
sections,  one  giving  the  titles  of  works  which  referred  inciden- 
tally to  America  ;  the  other,  which  would  have  proved  of  great 
interest,  containing  a  description  and  extracts  of  the  "  Libros 


'"  Conic] :  Rtat  i  Supremo  de  lot  Ind'iai, 
lu  origen  i  juriidicion,  i  los  Presidenlei, 
Coiejeros,  Finalei  i  Secretarial  que  desde  i« 
fundacion  haiia  oy  ha  tetiido  f  ms.,  Epitome, 
page  119. 

"  Dedication  to  the  Duke  de  Medina 
de  las  Torres,  on  signature  3. 

'"  "  la  Biblioteca  que  mas  ampliada, 
tengo  escrita,"  /oc.  cit.,  p.  1 34. 

"  Epitome  de  la  Bibliotheca  Oriental  i 
Occidental,  Nauiica  i  Geografica.  Al  Excet- 
enlist.  SeHor  D.  Ramiro  NuKes  Perez  Felipe 
de  Guzman,  SeHor  de  la  Casa  de  Guzman, 
Duque  de  Medina  de  las  Torres,  Marjues 


de  Torat  i  Monasterio,  Cinde  de  Parma- 
coello  i  yaldorce,  Comendador  de  yaldepeflas. 
Gran  Canciller  de  las  InJias,  Tesorero  Gen- 
eral de  la  Corona  de  Aragon,  i  Consejo  dt 
Italia,  Capitan  de  los  cien  Hijudalgo  de  la 
guarda  de  la  Real  persona  i  Sumiller  de 
Corps.  Por  el  Licenciado  Antonio  de  Leon 
Relator  del  Supremo  i  Real  Consejo  de  las 
Indias.  Con  Priuilegio.  En  Madrid,  Por 
luan  Gonzalez.     AHo  de  m.ocxxix. 

^^'^  4to;  title  I  1.4-43  unnumb.  11  + 
183  numb.  pp.  4-12  pp.  tor  appendix  +  i 
I.  lor  colophon. 

''■'  Prologo,  on  sign.  4. 


Introduction. 


XV 


\t 


Rcalcs"  in  the  offices  of  the  secretaries  of  the  Supreme  Council 
of  the  Indies — upwards  of  five  hundred  of  which  he  had  read. 
The  Epitome  describes  manuscripts  as  well  as  printed  hooks,  in  the 
alphabetical  order,  with  valuable  notes.  Pinelo  seems  to  have 
made  his  descriptions  from  the  works  themselves,  except  in  a  few 
instances  where  the  titles  are  derived  from  the  catalogues  of 
Balduanus^',  Draudius'^,  (iabriel  de  Sora",  and  from  works  in 
the  library  of  his  predecessor,  Thomas  Tamayro.  He  likewise 
extracted  from  Herva;^jus,  Ranuisio  and  De  Bry,  the  accounts 
relating  specially  to  the  New  World.  Prefixed  are  several  poems, 
an  introduction  by  Juan  Rodriguez  de  Leon,  who  was  Pinelo's 
brother,  and  several  indices  carefully  and  skillfully  drawn. 

From  the  fact  that  Juan  de  Soloryano  Pereira  was  appointed 
in  1634  to  continue  the-  Recopiliicion  de  Leyes^  commenced  by 
Rodrigo  de  Aguiar  and  Leon  Pinelo,  we  infer  that  the  latter 
died  probably  in  1633. 

Although  several  authors  of  note**^  may  have  intended  to  follow 
the  example  of  the  Peruvian  jurist,  the  earliest  cata- 
logue of  books  exclusively  devoted  to  America  which 
we  can  find  after  the  work  of  Leon  Pinelo,  is  the 
useful  B'lbl'iotheccc  Americana;  Primordia  of  White  Kennett,  Dean 
of  Peterborough*',  enlarged  by  the  Rev.  Thomas  Watts***.    The 


Kennett 
»7>3- 


"  Bibliothtca  Classic.i,  siue  Cata/ogus 
Officinalis,  Francofurti  ad  M.    1625,   410. 

'*  Bibliolhica  Hislorica,  Lipsie,  1610, 
4Cu. 

"  "  Bibliothecie  amplissima;  dominus, 
cujus  mm  exigui  voluminis  extat  catalogus 
typis  cditus  .  .  .  .  "  Antonio,  he.  cit., 
Vol.  I,  p.  509. 

■■"  Alcedo  mentions  in  the  prologue  of" 
his  manuscript  bibliography,  a  Bihiioleca 
Americana,  composed  by  Juan  Dikz  de  la 
Calle  ;  a  tew  sheets  only  were  printed 
about  tlie  year  1646. 

"  Born  at  Dover,  1660.  Entered  of  St. 
Edmund  H.1II,  Oxford,  1678;  Vicar  of 
Amersden,  Oxfordshire,  1684;  Rector  of 
Shottesbrook,  Berkshire,  1 693;  Minister  of 
St.  Botolph,  '\ldgate,  London,  1699;  Dean 
of  Peterborough,  1707  j  Bishop  of  Peter- 


borough, 1718  J  died,  l^^%. — Darling, 
Cycloped.  Bitliogr,,  col.  1718. 

'"  Bibliolliecie  Americana"  Primordia. 
An  Attempt  Towards  laying  the  Foundation 
of  an  American  Library,  In  several  Books, 
Papers,  and  ff^rilings,  Humbly  given  to  the 
Society  for  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in 
Foreign  Parts,  For  the  Perpetual  Use  and 
Benejil  of  their  Members,  their  Missionaries, 
Friends,  Correspondents,  and  others  con- 
cern'd  in  the  Good  Design  of  Planting  and 
promoting  Christianity  within  Her  Majesty's 
Colonies  and  Plantations  in  the  IVest-Indies. 
By  a  Member  of  tie  said  Society.  London, 
Printed  for  J.  Churchill,  at  the  Black 
Swan  in  Pater-Noster-Row,  1 71 3. 

***  4t")  title  one  leaf4-  16  preliminary 
pp.  +  276  pp.  +  112  unnumbered  leaves 
for  table. 


m 


XVI 


Introduction. 


title  explains  the  purpose  of  this  excellent  biLI'ography.  The 
accounts,  which  are  chiefly  extracted  from  the  collections  of 
Hervagius,  Ramusio,  Eden,  Hakluyt,  and  Purchas,  are,  together 
with  relations  borrowed  from  the  Epistles  of  Peter  Martyr, 
arranged  in  the  order  of  dates.  A  certain  number  of  valuable 
works,  especially  of  the  seventeenth  century,  apparently  taken 
from  the  library  which  the  learned  Bishop  donated  in  17 13 
to  the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel,  are  described 
with  accuracy.  As  an  index  of  subjects,  the  Bihliotheca  Ameri- 
cana: Prhnordia  stands  prominent  among  the  works  of  the  kind. 
Lenglet  Du  Fresnoy  inserted  in  his  well-known  Methode  pour 
etud'ter  la  Geographic  ^'>  a  list  of  works  relating  to 

Lenglet      America.     It  numbers  about  sixty  titles  (exclusive 

Du  Fresnoy.    ^    ,  rr.l.1■»r^r>\u•• 

.-,(.  of  the  reprmt  or  Kothelm  s  De  Bry)^  begmning 

with  Benzoni.  We  notice  an  Oviedo  of  1730, 
which  is  not  to  be  found  anywhere  else.  The  catalogue  of 
American  voyages'"  is  still  more  succinct.  Both  of  these  lists 
bear  a  certain  resemblance  to  Mencke's  work'". 

Andres  Gonzales  de  Barcia  Carballido  y  Zuniga'%  while  pre- 
paring the  edition  of  Herrera's  Historia  General^^, 
which  is  so  well  known  for  its  admirable  index, 
thought  it  advisable  to  enlarge  the  list  of  Los 
Autores  impresos^  y  de  mam.,  que  ban  escrito  cosas  particulares  de 
las  Indias  Occidentales.,  which  precedes  the  original  edition  of 
Herrera.  To  that  effect  he  instituted  diligent  researches  to  dis- 
cover the  larger  work  of  Leon  Pinelo,  but  failing  in  this'*,  he 


Barcia. 

i737-«- 


"  Paris,  1742  (third  edit.),  Vol.  i,  Part 
II,  p.  405,  t'f.  We  have  not  been  able  to 
procure  the  edition  ot"  1768,  which  is  the 
most  complete. 

'"  loc.  cit.y  p.  504,  jy. 

"  Catalogue  des  frincipaux  historiens, 
avec  des  remar^ues  critiques  sur  la  bonii:  de 
leurs  owvrages  et  sur  le  choix  des  meilleures 
editions.  Par  J.  B.  Mf.ncke  j  Lipsic  [s'V], 
M  ucc  XIV,  i2mo,  p,  426,  s^. 


"  •'  Barcia  was  a  man  of  literary  dis- 
tinction, much  employed  in  the  affairs  of 
state,  and  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Span- 
ish Academy.  He  died  in  1743." — -Tick- 
NOK,  Hist,  of  Spanish  Literature,  Vol.  11, 
p.  29,  note  13,  on  the  authority  of  Baena, 
Hijos  de  Madrid,  Vol.  i,  p.  106. 

"  Madrid,  1726,  — . 

"  "  Esta  Obra  maior,  que  no  falta  quien 
digu  haverlu  acabado  (i  en  el  continuo  tra- 


Introduction. 


xvu 


II 


availed  himself  of  his  "  noble  collection  of  books  and  manu- 
scripts relating  to  America"",  of  some  stray  notes  ("  Papelcs 
Originales,  i  copias  del  autor")  left  by  Pinclo,  and  of  such 
materials  as  he  could  find  in  the  extensive  compilations  of 
Rodriguez'^  Quetif  and  Echard'^,  Labbe''*,  Nicholas  Antonio, 
Du  Halde,  Trevoux,  &c.,  and  following  the  plan  of  the  Epitome 
of  Leon  Pinelo,  compiled  the  extensive  Bih/iothfCfj^'\  which,  to 
distinguish  it  from  the  latter,  we  call  Pinelo-Barcia. 

Barcia's  work  is  an  immense  repertorium,  containing  abridged 
titles,  all  translated  into  Spanish,  and  fraught  with  inaccuracies 
of  all  kinds.  The  multiplicity  of  indices,  and  the  different 
paginations  render  this  bulky  compilation  of  little  use,  although 
in  the  midst  of  a  chaotic  mass,  painstaking  bibliographers 
may  discover  notices,  especially  in  the  mention  of  manuscript 
sources,  which  could  not  be  found  in  any  other  work.  Many 
of  the  errors  which  mar  the  utility  of  subsequent  bibliographies 
can  be  traced  to  Pinelo -Barcia. 

If  no  bibliography  of  American  books  is  to  be  found  f  ir  a 
number  of  years  after  Barcia's,  there  are  several  lists,  prefi.  '  to 
histories,  which,  although  relating  exclusively  to  particular  ac- 
tions of  countries,  find  their  place  in  this  con- 
nection. The  first  is  a  description,  with  notes,  of 
fifty-five  works,  added  by  Charlevoix  to  his  His- 


Charlevoix 

1744. 


lujo  del  Autor,  es  verisimill  no  han  potjido 
descubrir  bs  mas  eficaces  diligencias."  Pi- 
nelo-Barcia,  Proemio,  third  page. 

"  Rich,  Bihliotheca  Americana  Nova, 
Vol.  I,  p.  55.  No.  7. 

'*  Bikliol/jecayakntina;  VA\ench,  1702- 
1703,  t'olio. 

"  De  Scriptorihus  ordinis  Pnedicator.  ,• 
Paris,  1719-21,  fill. 

'"  Bibliothr-a  Bihiiolhecarum  ;  Paris, 
1664,  4to. 

"'  Epitome  de  la  Bihiioteca  Oriental,  y 
Occidental,  Nautica,  y  Geograjica.  De 
Don  Antonio  de  Leon  Pinelo,  del  Consejo  de 
su  Mag.  en  la  Casa  de  la  Contratacion  de 


Se-villa,  y  Corontsia  Mai^r  de  las  Indias, 
a!iadido,  y  enmendado  ntte'vamente,  en  ^iie  se 
contienen  los  escriiores  de  las  Indias  Orien- 
tales,  V  Occidentales,  y  Reinos  con-vecinos 
China,  Tartaria,  jfapon,  Persia.  Armenia, 
Etiopia,  y  otras  partes.  Al  Rey  niieslro 
seiior.  Por  mano  del  Marjues  de  Torre- 
Nueva,  su  Secrelario  del  Despacho  Uni- 
versal de  Hacienda,  Indias  i  Mexico.  Con 
Privilegio.  En  Madrid  :  En  la  oficina 
de  Francisco  Mariinea  Ahad,  en  la  Calle 
del  Olivo  Baxo,    Aiio  de  m.  d.  cc.  xxxvii. 

'".^*  Folio,  3  yols.  (second  and  third 
dated  m.  n.  cc.  xxxviii.),  Bihiioteca  Occi- 
dental, cids.  516-912,  in  Vol.  11. 


m 


xvni 


Introduction. 


tory   of   New    France+°.      Laudonniere    (1586)    is    the   earliest 

author  mentioned  ;  but  we  find  reliable  accounts  of  Lescarbot, 

Champlain,   Sagard,  and  of  the  most  important   historians   of 

Canada.     The  notes  are  succinct,  but  trustworthy,  and  such   as 

would  have  added  still  greater  value  to  the  History  of  America 

of  Robertson,   had  that  painstaking  historian  done  more  than 

limit  himself  to  a  mere  mention  of  titles.     The 

books  described  by  Robertson'*'  seem  to  have  com- 
1777.  .     •'    . 

posed  a  part  ot  the  library  which  was  procured  for 

him  by  Mr.  Widdilovc,  the  chaplain  of  the  English  embassy  at 
Madrid,  and  of  copies  of  such  manuscripts  as  Lord  Grantham 
was  permitted  to  consult.  It  must  be  said,  however,  that  the 
Spanish  government  exhibited  then,  as  now,  a  great  reluctance-*^ 
towards  communicating,  even  to  the  English  ambassador,  cer- 
tain documents,  which  it  was  left  to  Navarrete  to  publish  for 
the  first  time.  Robertson's  catalogue  comprises  nearly  two 
hundred  and  fifty  works,  all  intrinsically  valuable,  but  of  no 
great  rarity.  The  leading  historians  are  not  in  original  editions, 
but  mere  extracts  from  Ramusio's,  De  Bry's  and  Barcia's  col- 
lections or  late  reprints.  We  notice,  however,  the  priticeps  of 
Las  Casas,  Castanheda,  and  the  Vocahulario  of  Molina. 

Clavigero  enjoyed  advantages  which  were  denied  his  prede- 
cessors.    A  member  of  the  order  of  the  Jesuits 
at  the  time  when  the  New  World  was  ruled  by 
the    clergy   as    a   conquered    province,    he    spent 
thirty-six  years  in  Mexico  collecting  documents  for  his  intended 


Clavigero 
1780. 


*"  L'xstt  et  txamen  des  auteurs  que  j'ai 
consulth  pour  composer  cit  ouvrage  [yiz.  i 
Histoire  et  Description  Gencrale  de  la  Nou- 
•velle  France,  avec  !e  journal  histori(jue  J'un 
Voyage  fait  par  ordre  du  Roi  dans  ryJmi- 
rique  Septentrionale  f  Paris,  m.dccxliv,  2 
vols.  4to.     In  Vol  I,  pp.  xlj-lxj]. 

■"  ^  catalogue  of  Spanish  hooks  and  man- 
uscripts; in  RoBEKTSON,  History  of  the 
Discovery  and  Settlement  of  America;  Lon- 
don, 1777,  2  vols.  4to,  Vol.  II,  pp.  523- 
535- 


*'  "  Les  journaux  originaux  de  Colomb, 
Ac  Pinzon,  d'Ojeda,  d'Ovando,  de  Balboa, 
de  Ponce  de  Leon,  d'Heinandez  de  Cor- 
dime,  de  Cortez,  jtCiSe  trouvent  tous  dans 
le  c.ibinet  de.s  archives  de  la  couronne.  a 
Simancas,  a  deux  lieues  de  Valladolid. 
Les  chartes  et  les  diplonies  des  artaires  de 
TAmerique  qui,  sur  I'ordre  de  Philippe  II, 
y  furent  deposes,  occupent  la  plus  jjrande 
chambre,  et  torment  huit  cens  soixante- 
treize  gros  paquets,  que  M.  Robertson  a 
vainement    cherche    a    consulter."       De 


1 


wfimw^'^ 


Introduction. 


XIX 


history*',  which  he  prefaced  with  two  lists,  one  of  European 
and  native  authors,  who  wrote  in  the  Mexican,  Otomee,  Maya 
and  other  American  languages ;  the  other,  containing  thirty-nine 
valuable  notices  of  writers  on  the  ancient  history  of  Mexico. 
Clavigero  mentions  manuscript  sources,  such  as  Sahagun,  since 
printed,  Motolinia,  afterwards  lost,  and  Chimalpain,  which  he 
did  not  suspect  to  be  only  a  translation  of  Gomara-**. 

It  is  worthy  of  notice  that  nearly  all  the  works  relating  to  the 
New  World  published  in  the  seventeenth  and  eighteenth  cen- 
turies in  the  Spanish  language,  were  written  by  priests,  monks 
or  individuals  who  were  connected  in  some  manner  with  the 
Church.  The  extensive  number  of  publications  of  this  character 
induced  Juan  Jose  de  Eguiara  y  Eguren,  a  native 
Mexican,   who  held  the   chair  of  Theology   in  the 


Eguiara. 
1755- 


University  of  Mexico,  to  compose  a  dictionary, 
historical  and  bibliographical,  of  all  the  authors  born  in  New 
Spain.  He  died,  unfortunately,  in  1763,  without  completing 
his  work.  Although  Eguiara  carried  his  dictionary  to  the  letter 
J,  only  one  volume  was  published'*'.  This  includes  only  the 
first  three  letters  of  the  alphabet.  The  rest  of  the  manuscript 
was  preserved  until  within  a  few  years  in  the  library  of  the 
Cathedral  of  Mexico-*'^.     The  prolixity  of  the  dissertations,  the 


MuRR,  Histoire  diplomatique  du  CAevalier 
Behaim;  Strasb.  an  J  Paris,  1802,  8vo,  p. 
63.  This  note  of  Dt-  Murr  seems  to  be 
taken  from  Robertson's  own  preface,  but 
we  have  to  discover  the  authority  of  the 
Nuremberg  critic  for  his  assertion  as  re- 
gards the  journals  of  Pinzon,  Ojeda, 
Ovando,  Sec. 

*'  Sloria  nntica  del  Messico ;  Cesena, 
1780-1,  4  vols.,  4to.  In  the  absence  of 
the  Italian  original,  we  quote  CuUen's 
translation,  London,  1780,  4to.  Catalogue 
of  some  [128]  European  and  Creole  au- 
thors luho  have  written  on  the  Dcrtrines  of 
Christianity  and  Morality,  in  the  Languages 
of  New  Spain;  Vol.  i,  p.  412.  sj.  Au- 
thors of  Grammars  and  Dictionary,  p.  414,  sj. 

— Account  of  the  fVriters  on  the  Ancient 
History  of  Mexico,  Vol.  i. 


**  See  infra,  p.  204,  note  8. 

*'  Bihliotheca  Mexicana  sive  ervditorvm 
historia  ■virorvm,  qui  in  America  Boreal! 
nati,  -vel  alibi  geniii,  in  ipsam  Domicilio  out 
Stuijs  asciti,  juavis  lingua  scripto  alijuid 
tradiderunt ;  Eorum  prasertim  qui  pro  Fide 
Catholica  fef  Pietale  amplianda  fo-vendaque, 
'gregic  factis  (S  quilmsvis  Scriptis  Jiouere 
edilis  aut  ineditis.      Tomus  primus  exhihens 

litteras  ABC Mexici :  Ex  nova 

Typographic  in  JEdibus  Authoris  edition! 
ejusdem  Bihtijtheca  destinatj.  Anno  Do- 
mini MDCCLK 

*^*  Folio;  title  1,+  18  11.  -f  59 -f-  i, -(. 
pp.  1-543;  on  two  columns. 

(Priv,itc  Library,  New  York.) 

*'  Boletin  de  la  Sociedad  Mexicana  de 
Geografia  y  Estadistica,  Vol.  X,  No.  2, 
page  77. 


XX 


Introduction. 


Maneiro. 
1791. 


lack  of  criticism,  and  the  fact  that  every  title  is  translated  into 
Latin,  deter  greatly  from  the  merit  of  this  work,  which,  how- 
ever, has  not  been  entirely  superseded  by  the  more  extensive 
Biblioteca  of  Beristain,  as  Eguiara  gives  his  authorities,  which 
Beristain  frequently  neglects  to  do. 

The  work  of  Father  Maneiro*^  is  entitled  to  a  place  in  this  list 
on  account  of  the  bibliographical  details  contained 
in  his  thirty-four  elaborate  biographies  of  Mexican 
authors.  Maneiro  belonged  to  the  order  of  the  Jes- 
uits. He  was  born  at  Vera-Cruz  in  1744,  and  died  in  the 
city  of  Mexico  in  1802.  His  biography  of  Clavigero  is  espe- 
cially interesting. 

But  the  repertory  of  Mexican  works  and  authors  which  is 

sought  after  by  collectors  (not  so  much  on  account 

Beristain.     .•.»••  •»       u  i ■•..        v  \   •    »u 

„   ,  ot  Its  mtrinsic  merit  as  because  ot  its  rarity),  is  the 

Biblioteca  of  Beristain*'*. 

Jose  Mariano  Beristain  Martin  de  Souza  was  born  at  Puebla 

in  1756*''.     He  completed  his  education  in  Spain,  and  returned 

in  1790  to  Mexico.      He  was  afterwards  appointed  to  the  offices 

of  Dean  of  the  Cathedral  of  that  city,  and  Rector  of  the  College 

of  San  Pedro  ;  and  became  the  champion  of  Spanish  absolutism 

during  the  revolution  of  18 10.     Dr.   Beristain  never  recovered 

from   an   attack  of  apoplexy   with   which   he  was  seized  while 


*'  yoannh  Aloysii  Maneiri,  ytracrucen- 
sis,  de  yith  atijuot  Mtxicanorum,  aliorum- 
fue  jui  ti-ve  yinure,  live  litteris  Mexici  in 
primis  Jioruerunt  i  Bononia,  lyyi-z,  8vo, 
Vol.  1,  pp.  412;    Vol.   II,  412;    Vol.  Ill, 

We  rind  in  the  Diccionario  Univen,  de 
Hist,  y  Geogr.  (Mexico),  Vol.  i,  p.  562,  a 
notice  of  a  \IS.  Mexican  bibliography,  viz. : 
Catalogo  de  hi  escritores  Angelo-Politanoi 
[of  Puebla], />or  Diego  Bermudez  de  Cas- 
tro. 

"  Biblioteca  Hiipano-Americana  Septen- 
trional:  0  Caliilcgo  y  Noticia  de  hi  Litera- 
tes jue  0  nacidcis  0  educados  0  jiorencientei  en 
la  America  Septentrional  EspaHola,  han  dado 


a  luz  algun  escrito,  0  h  han  dexado  prtpa- 
rad'j  para  la  Prema.  La  escribia  El  Doctor 
De  Joie  Mariano  Beriuain  De  So:iza,  del 
Clauitro  de  lai  Universidadei  de  Falenciay 
falladolid,  Caballero  de  la  Orden  EspaHola 
de  Carloi  HI,  y  Comendador  de  la  Real 
Americana  de  Label  la  Catolica,  y  Dean  de 
la  Melropolitana  de  Mexico.  En  Mexico  1 
Calle  de  Santo  Domingo  y  esquina  de  Ta- 
cuba  Alio  de  1816. 

***  Large  4.10,  Vol.  i,  14  11.  +  540  pp. ; 
Vol.  II  (dated  1819),  2  11.  +  525  pp. ;  Vol. 
Ill  (dated  1821),  2  11.  +  365  pp. 

(Private  Library,  Washington.) 

*•  Biblioteca  Hispano-Americana  Sept. 
Vol.  I,  art.  Beristain. 


. 


"I  •mmnfvw^^t' 


Introduction.  xxi 

preaching  in  the  Cathedral,  and  died  in  1817'°.  He  was  a  literary 
priest  of  varied  attainments,  who  wrote  poetry,  and  enjoyed 
some  reputation  as  a  pulpit  orator;  but  he  is  chiefly  remembered 
on  account  of  his  bibliographical  work. 

Beristain  devoted  twenty  years  to  the  preparation  of  his  Bib- 
lioteca,  but  he  lived  to  publish  only  the  first  hundred  and  eighty- 
s.x  pages  of  the  first  volume;  the  rest  of  the  work  having  been 
edited  by  his  nephew,  Jose  Rafael  Enriquez  Trespalacios  Beris- 
tain.    When  first  published  it  could  be  procured  for  six  dollars  ; 
now  as   much   as    ninety   or  a   hundred    dollars    are    asked   in 
Mexico  for  a  complete  set,  and  the  work  is  rarely  met  with 
The  reason  of  its  rarity  is   simply  that  the   number  of  copies 
printed  was  limited  to  the  list  of  subscribers,  as  there  was  no 
prospect  of  finding  purchasers  for  a  larger  edition. 

As  to  the  merits  of  the  work,  they  have  been  greatly  exag- 
gerated  by  the  booksellers  who  happened  to  have  a  few  copies 
for  sale.    Its  three  thousand  six  hundred  and  eighty-seven  notices 
convey,  ,t  is   true,  a  great  deal  of  information,  but  of  a  kind 
which  IS  not  always  to  be  trusted,  while  the  titles  are  so  muti- 
lated as  to  be  still  a  source  of  error  and  confusion^'.      When  it 
was  proposed,  in  1863,  that  the  Mexican  Society  of  Geography 
should  repnnt  the  work,  a  member,  of  undoubted  competency  in 
such  matters,  reported  that  to  reprint  Dr.  Beristain's  Bihlloteca 
as   It   was,  might   not  render  any  service   to  science,  while  to 
correct  It  would  be  almost  an  impossibility  ;  and  that  if  a  bib- 
liography of  this  character  was  absolutely  needed,  the  Society 

Zgethe"    '  ^  """^^  ^^^"•''  ""'^"^''"^  ^°  ^°-P°-  ^  "-  o- 


""  Diccionarh  Univ.  de  la  Hist,  y  Gtogr 
(Mexico),  Vol.  I,  p.  560.  -^        * 

"  "El  defecto  principal  de  la  Biblioteca 
de  Beristain  consiste  en  la  lihertad  que  se 
tomo  el  autor  de  alterar,  compendiar  y  re- 
construir  los  titulos  de  las  obras  que  cita, 
hasta  haber  que  dado  algunos  inconocibles." 


—Ohurvaaonet  priuntadas  a  la  Socicdad 
Mtxuana  de  Geograjia  y  Estadiuica  par  ,1 
^oao  de  numcro  jut  mscribc  [Sr.  d  f  Gar 
CIA  ICAZBALCF-TA],  acera  de  la  froyectada 
re,mpreswn  de  la  Biblioteca  Hispano-jimer- 
'cam  Septentrional  del  Dr.  Beriuain  ^  in 
5,j/«,«,  Vol.  X,  No.  2,  ,864 


xxu 


Introduction. 


Whether  we  consider  Meusel's'*  work  as  an  enlarged  edition 

of  Struvius'  B'thlioteca  Historica^K  or  as  the  realiza- 

1    EUSEL.     ^j^^  ^^  ^^   jj^^   suggested   by   the  compilations   of 

Balduanus,  Zciller  and  Bartels,  Mcusel's  Historical 
Library  will  always  be  considered  a  scholarly  and  reliable  work 
of  the  utmost  importance  to  the  student  of  histoiy.  It  was 
intended  to  comprise  Modern  Italy,  Germany,  the  Netherlands, 
England  and  Northern  Europe,  increasing  the  work  to  forty 
parts.  These,  however,  were  never  published,  but  we  are  glad 
to  record  the  fact  that  the  sections  relating  to  the  New  World 
were  all  inserted.  They  occupy  half  or"  the  second  part  and 
half  of  the  first  part  of  Vol.  iii,  with  additions  in  the  Analecta. 
Many  of  the  original  editions  of  the  most  important  authors 
seem  to  have  escaped  his  notice.  Thus,  for  the  first  collection, 
he  does  not  ascend  to  Fracanzio  da  Montalboddo''-*,  but  to 
Ruchamer"  ;  and  for  the  epistles  of  Columbus  he  refers  to 
Robertus  Monachus''';  but  be  knows  from  the  Cosmographiec 
Introductio  the  accounts  ascribed  to  Vespuccius,  while  several  of 
the  Cortes  Letters  are  described  from  Seville  editions.  The 
secondary  authors  are  mentioned  with  a  fullness  and  accuracy 
which  betray  the  hand  of  a  bibliographer  who  did  not  limit  his 
efforts  to  the  mere  transcription  of  titles  and  collations,  but  to  a 
perusal  of  the  works  themselves  and  appreciation  of  their  merits. 
John  George  Meusel  was  born  near  Bamberg  in  1743.  A 
pupil  of  Heyne,  he  acquired,  when  only  twenty-three  years  of 
age,  a  certain  reputation  for  his  editions  of  Theocritus  and 
Lucan,  and  was  considered  in  after  life  an  historian  of  consider- 
able merit.  He  died,  in  1820,  at  Erlangen,  where  he  held  the 
chair  of  History  in  the  University. 


"  Bibliothtca   Historica.    Instructa  a  B.  parts  in  eleven  volumes,  including  anattcta 

Bitrcardo    Gitthtlf    Struvio,    aucta    a    B.  and  index. 
Chrhli.  Gott/iek  Budero  nunc  -vero  a  loanne  "'  lena,  1740,  8vo. 

Georgia  Meuulio  ita  dignta,  ampUficata  et         "  No.  48. 
emendata,  ul  fame   no-vum  opus  •videri  pos-  "^  No.  57. 

sit  f     Lipsia   mdcclxxxii  ;    8vo,    twenty         "  No.  175. 


L  . 


Introduction. 


xxin 


To  supply  data  to  an   American  gentleman  who  proposed  to 
write  a  history  of  America,  one  Mr.  Reid>"  compiled 
^Q°*     a  chronological  catalogue'^  of  books,  pamphlets  and 
state  papers.     The  titles  are  extracted  chiefly  from 
the    lists    then   in    the    British    Museum,    Jefterson's   Notes   on 
Firginiay   The  Monthly  Revieiu,  &c.,  and  arranged  in  the  order 
of  dates,  but  abridged  and  imperfectly  transcribed.    It  is  a  worth- 
less compilation,  which  we  should  not  notice,  were  it  not  to  be 
found  on  the  shelves  of  almost  every  American  library. 

Although  the  Foyages  of  De  Bry  were  not  sought  after  in  the 
last  century  with  the  eagerness  which  distinguishes  the 
collectors  of  our  time,  when  Camus"  read  to  his  col- 
leagues of  the  Institute  of  France  the  elaborate  descrip- 
tion which  he  had  prepared  of  the  tine  copy  in  the  National 
Library  he  was  immediately  requested  to  add  a  part  describing 
the  contents  of  the  work.  It  is  to  this  circumstance  that  we  owe 
an  excellent  analysis,  not  only  of  De  Bry's,  but  of  Thevenot's 
collections,  with  incidental  notes  on  those  of  Ilervagius,  Ramu- 
sio,  Hakluyt  and  Hulsius.  Camus'  Al'emoire''^  may  not  contain  as 
minute  bibliographical  details  as  the  well-known  descriptions  of 
Cisternay  Du  Fay's''^'  and  of  De  Bure's'''  copies,  or  collations  as 


Camus 
1802. 


"  This  work  is  sometimes  ascribed  to 
Debrett  or  to  one  Rev.  Mr.  Homer. 
Debrett  was  only  the  puhlhher,  while  Mr. 
Homer  happened  simply  to  own  a  copy, 
which  contained  the  following  note:  "U. 
for  Reid,  the  an'jtiymous  author  of  a  hook 
enlil/ed  Dihliothtca  yimericana,  printed  in 
1789."  See  Rich,  Bihiioth.  Americana 
Nova  (Suppl.),  p.  491,  No.  I. 

"*  Bihliotheca  Americana  ;  or,  a  chrono- 
los^ical  catalogue  of  the  moit  curious  and  in- 
teresting Books,  Pamphlets,  State  Papers, 
Sfc,  upon  the  subject  of  North  and  South 
America,  from  the  earliest  period  to  the 
present,  in  print  and  manuscript  j  for  ivhich 
research  has  been  made  in  the  British  Muse- 
um, and  the  most  celebrated  public  and  pri- 
vate libraries,  reviews,  catalogues,  &c., 
with  an  introductory  discourse  on  the  present 


state  of  Literature  in  those  countries  {   Lon- 
don, printed  for  J.  Derrett.    mdcclxxxix. 

*,.♦  4to;   title  i  1.  +  i  l.  +  iyi  pp. 

"  Armand  Gaston  Camus,  born  at  Paris 
in  1740,  was  a  great  jurist,  who  played  an 
important  part  in  the  French  Revolution 
0^1789.     He  died  in  1804. 

""  Mcmoires  sur  la  collection  des  Grands 
et  Petits  Voyages,  et  sur  la  collection  des 
voyages  de  Melchisedech  Thevenot ;  par  A 
G.  C.^MUS,  membre  de  I'lnstitut  national, 
Imprimi  par  I'ordre  et  auxfrais  de  I'lnstitut  i 
Paris,  Frimaire  An.  xi.  (1802).  410,  3  11. 
-1^-401  pp.  +  I  1. 

"  No.  2825  of  the  catalogue  of  his 
library,  prepared  by  G.  Martin. 

"  Bibliographic  Instructive,  Vol.  i,  pp. 
67-187  (an  interleaved  copy  of  this  part, 
witli  De  Bure's  own  annotations). 


"m 


XXIV 


Introduction. 


full  as  the  monographs  published  by  De  Rothelin'''',  Brunei''*, 
Quaritch'''  and  WeigeF',  but  it  must  always  be  considered  a 
most  valuable  contribution  to  Analytical  Bibliography. 

Antonio  de  Alcedo  y  Bcxarano,  the  author  of  the  well-known 
Geographical  Dictionary,   was  born  at  Quito  about 
Q        '    the  year  1730.    After  finishing  his  education  at  Mad- 
rid he  entered  the  Spanish  army,  and,  in  1767,  while 
yet  holding  a  commission,  studied  Medicine  at  Montpellier.     In 
1807  he  held  the  post  of  Governor  of  Corufia.      His  last  work 
was  a  bibl'toteca  Americancf'T ^  which   never  was  printed.     This 
bulky  compilation  seems  to  be  based   entirely  upon  Pinelo-Bar- 
cia,  with  the  addition  of  a  i^^  biographical  notes,  which  are  of 
interest  only  when  referring  to  modern  American  authors.     The 
titles    are    given   in   alphabetical    order,  abridged,   and   selected 
with  very  little  discrimination'^'*. 

Part  V  of  the  extensive  bibliography  of  Voyages'^  by  G.  Bou- 
cher de  la  Richarderie,  is  devoted  exclusively  to 
^^  America.     The  number  of  volumes  cited  is  con- 

RlCHARDERIE.     •,        ,■        .  ■  ■         i  •    u 

iXnS  siderable,   but   not   worthy   the   high   encomium 

passed  on  this  compilation  by  Peignot,  who  calls 


See  also,  by  the  same  bibliographer : 

Description  de  Vexemptaire  de  la  Collec- 
tion des  Grands  et  Pelits  voyages  de  Theo- 
dore de  Bry  appartenant  a  M.  le  Due  de 
Bedford,  s.  a.  a.  I.  [Paris,  iVIay.  1838], 
tbl.  6  pp. 

"  Observations  et  Details  sur  la  col- 
lection des  grands  &  des  petits  voyages ; 
Paris,  1742,  4to,  p.  44  (Abbe  de  Rothe- 
lin's  own  copy  with  MS.  notes).  Reprinted 
in  Lenglit  Du  Fresnoy,  Methode  pour 
etudier  la  Geogr.,  Vol.   I,  pp.  324-361. 

'*  Manuel,  Vol.  i,  cols.  I  310-1363. 

"  Collation  of  tie  German  De  Bry,  first 
editions;  s.  a.  a.  I.,  4  large  tol.  pages. 

'"  Bihliographische  Mittheilungen  iibcr 
die  deutschen  Ausgaben  von  De  Bry's  Samm- 
lungen  der  Rtisen  nach  dem  abend-  und  mor- 
genlandischen  Indien.  Aus  dem  "  Sera- 
peum"  besonders  abgedruckt ;  Leipzig,  T. 
O.  Weigel,  1845,  52  pp.      We  are  glad  to 


state  that  the  copy  described  in  this  care- 
fully drawn  memoir  is  now  in  a  private 
library  of"  this  city. 

"  Biblioteca  Americana,  Catalogs  de  los 
autores  que  han  escrito  de  la  America  en 
diferentes  idiomas.  Y  noticia  de  su  vida  y 
patria,  aflos  en  que  viuieron  y  obras  que 
escribieron.  Compuesto  por  El  Mariscal  de 
Campo  D.  Antonio  de  Alcedo,  Gobernado  de 
la  Plaza  de  la  Corufia.  Atlo  de  1807. 
Fol.  VI +1018  11.  MS. 

(Private  Library,  Providence.) 

"■  Witness  the  following  (fol.  236)  ; 

"  Crasoe,  Rohinsor.  Vida  y  maravil- 
losos  sucesos  de  Crasoe  Robinsor,  y  entre 
otros  varios  el  de  haber  estado  28  afios  en 
una  Isla  desierta  sobre  la  costa  y  boca  del 
rio  Orinoco :  en  ingles  .  Londres,  17...  8°." 

""  Bibliotheque  Universelle  des  yoyages, 
ou  Notice  complete  et  raisonnee  de  tous  les 
voyages  anciens  et  modernes  dans  les  differ- 


w 


Introduction. 


XXV 


It  "  un  vrai  monument  de  bibliographic  speciale'°,"  we  feel  con- 
strained to  say  that  were  it  not  for  the  extracts  which  it  gives 
from  books  published  in  the  eighteenth  century,  the  portion 
of  the  Bibliothi'fjue  universelle  des  Voyages  relating  to  America 
would  be  a  very  useless  compilation.  Unfortunately,  the  work 
was  frequently  consulted,  and  to  this  untoward  circumstance  do 
we  ascribe  many  of  the  egregious  mistakes  which  mar  a  number 
of  subsequent  publications^'.  Giles  Boucher  dc  la  Richarderie 
was  an  eminent  French  jurist,  whose  erudition  should  have 
enabled  him  to  composea  better  work.  He  was  born  in  1733, 
and  died  at  Paris  in  18 10. 

Dr.  David  13.  Warden,  an   Irishman  by  birth,  but  who  held 
for  forty  years  the  post  of  U.   S.   Consul  at  Paris, 
o     ■    ■    where  he  died  in  1845,  had  collected  a  library  com- 
posed of   works   relating  to  America,  neither  very 
extensive  1101  containing  books  of  extreme  variety,  but,  for  the 
time,  a  useful  and  valuable  collection.     This  he  offered  for  sale 
in  1820,  and,  for  the  use  of  purchasers,  compiled  a  catalogue^*, 
which  evinces  methodical  habits,  and  a  competent  knowledge  of 
the  subject.     The  collection  was   purchased  by  Mr.  Samuel  E. 
Elliott,  who  donated   it   to    Harvard   College^'  in    1823.     The 
earliest  work  on   the   list  is  the  Novus  Orbls  of  1537.      A  few 
years   later,  Dr.  Warden  having    consented   to   furnish    M.   de 
Courcelles  (the  editor  of  the  continuation  of  the  Art  de  Verifier 
les  Dates) ^  with  chronological  tables  of  American  history 7^,  com- 


inth  parlies  du  monde,  publics  rant  en  lan- 
irue  francaisc  '{uen  langues  clran^ires,  classes 
par  ordre  de  pays  dans  leur  svrie  ckronolo- 
i^iyiie  f  az'ee  des  extraits  plus  ou  moins 
rapides  des  voyages  les  plus  estimcs  de  chayue 
pays,  et  les  jugemenis,  moti-vh  sur  les  lela- 
tions  anciennes  yui  oni  le  plus  de  cilebriti. 
Far  G.  Boucher  de  la  Richarderie. 
Paris,  1808,  8vo,  Vols,  v  am)  vi. 

'"  Repertoire  de  Bibliographies  Spiciales, 

"Farihault,    among    others,    for    in 
st.ince,    borrows    many   of    liis    Inacrurate 
descriptions  from  La  Ricliarderie. 


"  Bihliotheca  Americo-Septentrhnalis  : 
being  a  choice  collection  of  Books  in  varUus 
languages,  relating  to  the  History,  Climate, 
Geography  .  .  .  of  North  America,  from  its 
first  disco-very  to  its  present  existing  Govern- 
ment. S.  a.  a.  I.  [Paris,  1820],  8vo,  pp. 
•47- 

'"  Jos.  Qawct,  History  of  Harvard  Coll., 
p.  553.  This  college  had  already  received 
as  a  girt,  in  1818,  from  Mr.  Thorndike, 
the  valuable  collection  of  Prof.  Ebeling  of 
Hamburg,  which  contained  a  large  number 
of  books  on  America;  loc.  cit.,  p.  413. 

'*  Paris,  iSi6-y,  8vo,  Vols,  ix-xu. 


1 


i 


xxvi  Introduction. 

mcnccd  ;i  new  collection  ot"  books  on  America,  which,  when  his 
work  hail  been  published,  he  also  orfereil  for  sale.  It  was  pur- 
chased, for  ^4,000,  by  the  State  of  New  York^' ;  and  it  is  the 
catalogue  of  this  second  collection  which  is  frec|ucntly  (juotcd 
as  "  Warden's  Bibliothec(f'\"  It  numbers  1118  works,  begin- 
ning with  the  translation  of  Munster  by  Belleforest  (ed.  of  1570), 
and,  with  the  exception  of  some  rare  charts,  does  not  contain 
anything  of  special  interest  to  bibliographers.  The  compiler 
mentions  as  the  rarest  books  in  the  collection,  Heylin's  Cosmog- 
raphy, the  Peter  Martyr  of  i  533,  a  De  lir\\  a  Rainusio^  a  Pur- 
chase a  Laet^  a  Torqticmada  and  an  Ogilhy. 

The  collected   voyages  of  Levinus   Hulse  or    Hulsius''^  may 
be  considered   an   imitation'"  of  that   of  De    Bry, 

A      /V  S  H  F  R 

^  '  although  it  is  superior  to  this  highly-prized  collec- 
tion in  many  respects,  and,  what  is  of  greater  im- 
portance to  collectors,'  much  more  difficult  to  complete.  It  is 
in  the  German  language,  and  devoted  chiefly  to  the  voyages  of 
the  Dutch.  Camus"''  states,  on  the  authority  of  Meusel%  that 
"  Hulsius  a  employe  pour  cooperatcurs  (lueUiues-uns  de  ceux 
qui  I'avaient  ete  par  de  Bry,  entre  autres  Gothard  Arthus." 

Although  mentioned  as  rare  and  valuable  as  far  back  as 
Haller"',  it  was  only  in  1833  that  a  bibliographer  attempted  to 
do  for  Hulsius  what  Camus  had  so  successfully  done  for  De 
Bry.     Mr.  A.  Asher,  a  Berlin  bookseller,  who  had  collected  the 


'"  Setsion   Laws   of  the   Stale   of  New  blicum    ab,    that    1602   cine    Ruise   nach 

7\ri,  for  1845,  |>.  72.     Documents  of  the  Holl.  und  Engelland,  liess  bldi  horiiach  zu 

^jje/nA/y,  1845,  Doc.  II.  I'ranckturt   am    Mayn   nicjer;    unJ   starb 

"  Bit/iotheca  Americana,  beinj^  a  choice  um   1606,"   (Jocher,   011  the   authority  of 

ci/llection   of  Booh   reJatin^    to    North    and  Valek.  Andreas). 

Siuth  America  anJ  the  fyest  InJies,  inc/uJ-  ""ad    imitationem    oferis     hoJoeporici 

:ng    f^oyaget    to    the   Southern    Hemisphere,  fratruni   de  Bry."      Fbeytao,  Analecta,   p. 

Maps,  Engra-vings  and  Medals  i  Paris,  J  8  3 1 ,  47  3. 

8vo,    pp.    139.      Reprinted,    Paris,    1840,  ^'  Mcmoire  sur  De  Bry,  f.  x^,  note. 

8vo.  pp.  124.  ""  Bib/iolieca  Historica,  Vol.  11,  Part  I, 

"  "ein  Geographus  und  Mathcmaticus  p.   337. 

von   Gent,  gieng    um    1590   nath   Niirn-  "'  "quotoms  26  prodiit,  qu:i-  rarissima 

berg,  gab  daiclb-t  einen  Informator  in  der  est    edito."      Bibliotheca    Botanica.    Tiguri, 

(Vaiuzojischen  Spraclie  und  Notarium   pu-  1771-72,  410,  Vol.  i,  p.  378. 


Introduction. 


XXVI 1 


m 


fine  set,  afterwards  sold  to  Mr.  Thomas  Grcnvillc,  first  pub- 
lished a  brief  memoir"',  which,  six  years  hiter,  was  ciihirgcd 
and  printed  in  4to'''.  Although  full  of  interest,  and  a  praise- 
worthy crtbrt  in  the  proper  direction,  this  description  is  not  as 
reliable  as  hypercritical  collectors  would  desire"^.  It  is  therefore 
necessary  to  add  to  Asher's  Memoir  the  collations  published  by 
Quaritch"',  the  London  bookseller  ;  although  these  covers  only 
the  first  editions  of  Hulsiuses. 

Of  late  the  attention  of  c  lectors  of  American  books  seems 
to  be  concentrated  on  perfect  sets  of  De  Brys^ 
Hulsiuses  and  Jesuits'  Relations.  The  latter  are 
certainly  the  most  valuable,  if  not  the  most  in- 
viting to  the  eye,  and  deserve  the  solicitude  of  collectors,  inas- 
much as  there  is  not  a  perfect  set  to  be  found  anywhere.  As 
our  readers  arc  doubtless  aware,  these  Relations  are  the  annual 
reports  sent  by  the  Superiors  in  Canada  to  the  Provincials  at 
Paris,  from  1632  to  1672,  and  contain  interesting  accounts  of 
the  progress  of  the  Jesuit  missionaries,  among  the  Indians,  as 
well  as  trustworthy  details  concerning  the  geography  of  the 
country,  the  different  tribes,  their  customs,  languages  and  tradi- 
tions. Tiie  only  bibliographical  account  which  we  could  find 
of  these  Jesuit  Relations,  is  a  paper  read  by  Dr.  E.  B.  O'Calla- 


O'Cai-lachan. 

1847. 


""  /4  ihort  Bihliografhual  Memoir  of  the 
C'lUecli'jti  of  yo^ciges  and  TriiTils  published 
by  Levinus  Huliius,  ai  Nuremherg  and 
Francfort,  from  151)8  to  1650.  By  A. 
AsHER,  J. /.,  lil33.  Svu,  pp.  16;  L'xtracted 
from  No.  35  ot  his  Monthly  Hit  of  Old 
Books, 

"  Bibliographical  essa\'  on  the  Collection 
of  Voyages  and  Travels  edited  and  pub- 
lished by  Levimts  Hulsius  and  his  successors, 
at  Nuremberg  and  Francfcrt,  from  anno 
1598  to  1660.  By  A.  AsHKR,  Lmulon  and 
Berlin,  liy),  4to,  3  II. +  118  pp 

'*  I'or  instance,  tlie  1st  edit,  ot"  Part  V 
is  not  1 60 1,  but  1599;  it  is  tlie  second 
which  is  dated  1 601,  instead  ot"  1603,  The 
1st  edit,  ot"  Fart  x  is  not  161 3,  but  1608. 
The  id  edit,  ot"  Part  xm  is  1617  (like  the 


1st,  with  variations  only  in  the  title  and 
prcl.  11.),  instead  of  1627.  The  earliest 
issue  of  the  3d  edit,  of  Part  v  is  1 603,  in- 
stead of  1611.  Tliere  is  no  dedication  to 
Andcr  Schitfahrt's  id  voyage  (Nuremb., 
i6oi);  the  text  in  Raleigh's  Cu/af/a  (Part 
V,  1601)  is  in  18  pp.  instead  of  17,  In 
Part  IV,  1599,  there  arn  fifteen  plates,  in- 
cluding Schmidel's  portrait,  instead  of  "  six- 
teen besides  the  portrait,"  &c.,  &c.  We 
are  sorry  to  say  that  bibliographers  are  ex- 
pected to  take  notice  of  such  niinuriiej 
nay.  these  often  constitute  the  only  stock 
of  knowledge  of  certain  collectors,  whose 
lynx  eyes  are  constantly  in  search  of  errors 
or  omissions  of  this  character. 

"  Collation   of  Hulsius.      First   editions, 
s.  I.  a.  a.,  4to,  8  11. 


xxvtii 


Introduction. 


ghan  before  the  N.  Y.  Historical  Society,  afterwards  published 
in  pamphlet  form"'',  and  translated  into  French"^.  This  was  fol- 
lowed by  the  publication  of  an  aimotatcd  list*^^",  mentioning 
where,  in  1853,  all  the  copies  then  known  could  be  consulted"''. 
Dr.  O'Callaghan's  brief  disquisition  is  interesting,  and  as  full  as 
the  subject  and  the  knowledge  of  the  copies  at  the  time  could 
permit.     The  discovery  made  since  of  five  unknown  editions'^, 


"  yetuil  Relalioni  of  Discoveriei  anJ 
other  Dccurrtncet  in  Ciinad<t  and  the  North- 
ern and  IVeittrn  Stalls  of  iht  Union, 
i6ji-if)72.  Uy  E.  B.  ()'CAi.r.A(iHAN, 
M.  L).;  New  Viirk,  mdoccxlvii,  8vo,  il 

PP- 

''  Rilaliom  dei  Jisuitfi  lur  let  De- 
c/wvertei  it  tti  autrfs  ivintmenlt  arri-va  en 
Canada,  el  au  Nord  et  a  I'Ouesi  dei  F.iats- 
Uni,  (1611--1672).  Par  It  Dr.  K.  B. 
O'Callaohan.  Traduii  de  rAnyJais  [by 
Father  I'clix  Martin]  avec  ijueliues  [erro- 
neous] nolei,  corrections  et  additions ;  Mont 
HEAL,  1850,  8vi),  70  pp. 

""  A  few  notes  on  the  Jeiuit  Relations, 
Compiled  for  Private  Circulation,  hy  E.  B. 
O'Callaohan,  M.  D.  j  1850,  one  folio 
leaf. 

"'  When  we  consider  the  extravagant 
price  now  paid  for  Relations,  it  is  interest- 
inj!  to  learn  that  the  twenty-ihree  volumei 
left  by  SouTHEY  sold,  at  liii  death,  for  less 
than  t'8  the  entire  lot;  and  that  thirty 
more  were  purchased  at  J^uebec  in  1851, 
for  $100. 

•"  They  consist  of  two  reprints  of  the 
time,  with  dilferent  paginations,  ic,  but 
no  change  in  the  text  of  the  Relation  of 
1638;  a  translation  into  Latin  of  the  Ra- 
gucnau  Relation  of  1653,  forming  part  of: 
Progressus  fdei  Cathoiica  in  No'vo  Orbe. 
I.  In  Canada,  sive  Noua  Frjncia,  2.  In 
Cochin  China.  3.  In  Magna  Chinensi  Regno 
Ve  quo  R.  P.  Nicolaus  Trigautius.  Soc. 
yesu.  lihris  V,  copiosi  et  accurate  scripsit, 
etc.  Colonize  Agrippinir.  yoannim  Kin- 
chium,  1653,  I2mu,  60  pp. 

{Bil/liilhei,t  Bmwiiiana,  I'art  ll.p.  II),  No.  ;'''4.l 

And  the  two  following  ; 

copiE  DE  DEUX  II  LETTRES  ||  envoie'es 
UELA  II  novvelle  FRANCE,  II  Au  Here  Pro- 
cureur  des  Millions  II  de  la  compagnic  de 
Iesvs  en  ces  contrees.  II  A  Paris  II  chez  Sc- 
baftien  Cramoisy,  Imprimeur  ordinaire  du 


Roy  et  Oauriel  Cramoisy.  riie  S.  lacquei 
aiix  Ci- II  cognes.  II  M  DC- .  lvi  .  Auec  pri- 
uilege  du  Roy. 

*^*  l8mo,  title  I  1  -f  pp.  3-18. 

RELATION  II  D«  ce  q.ii  felt  palfellen 
1»  Nouvelle  I'rancel'en  I'annee  1634 II 
Knuoyie  au  R.  Pire  Provincial  de  ..  Com- 
pagiiie  de  lefus  en  la  ||  Prouince  de  France.  || 
V.n  !c  I'ere  le  Ievne  de  la  Compagnie, 
Supericur  de  la  li  Kefidence  de  Kehec.  II 
EN  AriGNON  \\di:  rimprimerie  de 
[ai^ues  Bramkreav,  |j  Imprimeur  de  la 
SainCktc,  de  la  Ville,  &  11  Vniucrlite.  Auec 
permijjion  des  Supirieurs  ]|  m  .  Dc  .  \\\\\ , 

%■"'  8vo,  title  I  I.  +  4  unnumb.  11. -f 
pp  1-269;  then  pp.  291-336  for /?</<ir/o» 
of  Le  Jeune  of  1635;  pp.  337-392,  for 
Relation  de  ce  r/ui  s'cs!  passr  aux  Hurons  en 
I'annie  1635,  by  Brebeuk  ;  pp.  390-400, 
for  Relation  by  Perault  (1634-5);  pp. 
401-416,  for  Divers  Sentiments. 

The  rirst  part  corresponds  with  the  Le 
Jeune  Relation  of  1634  (Paris,  1635);  the 
second  part  is  a  reprint  of  the  Relation  of 
1635  (Paris,  1636). 

These  tw(  reprints  and  Relations  are  in 
a  Private  Library  of  this  city  ;  the  Latin 
Raguenau  in  a  Private  Library,  Provi- 
dence. 

As  to  tlie  Relation  of  1658-9,  vi'z.  : 
Lettrcs  envoiies  de  la  Nouvelle  France  au 
R.  P.  Jacques  Renault  Provincial  de  la 
Comp.  de  yesus  en  la  Province  de  France. 
Par  le  R.  P.  Hier.  Lakmani,  etc.  ,•  Paris, 
Sebastien  Cramoisy,  1660,  iimo,  pp.  49  + 
a;  although  there  is  no  original  copy 
known  at  present,  there  w,rs  one,  but  it 
was  destioyed  in  the  conHagrat'  ,.1  of  the 
Parliamentary  Library  at  CJuebec,  in  1854. 
Fortunately  a  collector  of  this  city  had  se- 
cured, a  short  time  previous,  a  manuscript 
copy,  which  he  caused  to  be  printed  in  fac- 
simile, at  Albany,  in  1854,  for  private  dis- 
tribution. 


■^ 


Introduction. 


XXIX 


lice  au 

Je    la 

France. 

Paris, 

49  + 

copy 

lut   it 

of  the 

1854. 

ad  se- 

uscrlpt 

n  fac- 

•ite  dis- 


* 


and  the  scarcity  of  the  pamphlet,  render  a  reprint  of  this  valua- 
ble contribution  to  American  bibliography  necessary. 

Hut  it  was  n(     until  182S  that  collectors,  acting  under  the  in- 
fluence of  Obadiah  Rich,  began  to  form  libraries  cxclu- 
Rkh. 


m 


1832. 


sively  composed  of  American  books.     This  bibliopole. 


whose  name  is  a  household  word  with  American  col- 
lectors, was  a  native  of  Boston,  Mass.  In  early  life  he  devoted 
himself  to  botanical  pursuits,  but  having  been  made  a  member 
of  the  Mass.  Hist.  Society,  hp  directed  his  attention  to  the 
study  of  bibliography,  which  "became  his  ruling  passion  through 
life,"  In  18 1 5  he  received  the  appointment  of  United  States 
Consul  for  Valencia,  in  Spain,  from  which  he  was  afterwards 
transferred  to  Madrid.  It  was  duiing  his  residence  in  Andalusia 
that  he  succeeded  in  forming  a  library,  which  Prescott,  Irving 
and  Ticknor  consulted  at  the  time  they  visited  Spain  for  the 
purpose  of  writing  the  works  which  have  rendered  their  names 
celebrated.  His  means  being  limited,  he  visited  London  at  in- 
tervals for  the  purpose  of  disposing,  by  private  sale  or  by  auction, 
of  the  rare  works  which  he  was  continually  collecting  in  Spain. 
It  is  to  this  circumstance  that  we  owe  the  formation  of  the  four 
greatest  collections  of  books  in  America''',  as  well  as  the  Amer- 


"  European  students  of  American  his- 
tory frequently  express  the'.-  surprise  when 
informed  of  tlie  riclincss  of  certain  libra- 
ries in  this  country;  but  they  forget  that 
the  owners  commenced  c(]|iecting  forty 
years  ago,  at  a  time  when  collectors  abroad 
neglected  American  boo'  ;,  and  were  loth 
to  pay  prices  which  were  frequently  much 
below  the  bids  sent  from  America,  Our 
collectors  were  in  direct  correspondence 
with  De  Bure,  Rich  and  Asher;  when 
traveling  abroad  they  never  neglected  to 
visit  the  public  libraries,  and  notice  the 
editions  which  were  wanting  in  their  col- 
lections; and  went  even  so  far  as  to  print 
catalogues  of  deiiderata,  which  circulated 
freely  among  the  European  booksellers. 
It  is  one  of  these  which  Brunet  quotes  oc- 
casionally, under  the  title  of  Livrei  Qtri- 


rux  *  This  contains  minute  descriptions 
of  parts  of  Thevenot,  Hulsius,  De  Bry, 
Relalhns,  as  well  as  Columbus  and  Cortes 
Letters,  It  is  worthy  of  notice  that  after 
a  circulation  of  ten  years,  and  the  knowl- 
edge that  the  highest  price  in  the  market 
would  be  paid,  not  twenty  numbers  were 


*  Livrcs  Curicux.  (.'.irrZ/ju/  H  Clfnlirn,  l.i- 
kr.ilrii  F.lranfrs  ;  New  York,  1854,  8vo.  pp.  J7, 
The  rollowinf!  passage,  not  in  the  pii.est  French, 
explains  the  object  of  this  othrrwisc  valuable  cata- 
logue :  "  Lfs  editions  spiciliecs  ctanl  Ics  seules 
dont  on  a  hesoin,  .'\ucune9  autrci  ne  pourraicnl 
6lrc  prises,  I.es  oifrcs  ilevraicnt  done  corrcspomlre 
ixactimint  avec  Ics  cnllatidns  donnees  ci-itcssnus. 
Lcs  dirtercnces  cnlre  I'.j  dirttrenle.,  editions  clant 
queUillclois  tres-minimcs,  les  ilcscriplions  onl  Hi 
preparies  avec  grand  soin,  de  manicre  que  Ton 
Iruuvcra  ind'que  pr<cis6incnt  cc  qui  est  desire,  et 
qiielqucfois  mcme  lea  particularitcs  dcs  editions 
tres-semblables  malt  fjuitii^  qu'on  ncveut  pas," 


^^^ 


'!% 


XXX 


Introduction. 


'  ! 


ican  portion  of  the  Bihliotheca  Grenvilliana,  which  contains  gems 
not  to  be  found  in  any  other  library.  These  four  American 
collections  are  located  as  follows  :  one  in  Providence,  Rhode 
Island,  one  in  Washington  city,  and  two  in  New  York,  the 
Aspinwall  collection  having  been  removed  hither  from  Boston 
in   i863'S 

In  1828  Rich  removed  to  London,  where  he  opened  a  place 
of  business,  which  remained  as  such  during  the  remainder  of  his 
life,  although  in  1836  he  accepted  the  consulate  at  the  Balearic 
Isles,  and  fixed  his  residence  at  Port  Mahon,  attracted  thither 
chiefly  by  the  desire  of  examining  at  leisure  one  or  two  extensive 
private  libraries  in  that  vicinity.  The  business  meanwhile  was 
carried   on   under   the  superintendence  of  his  son,  Mr.  George 


obtained  out  of  a  list  of  two  hundred  and 
sixteen  mentioned  in  this  curious  catalogue, 
which  points  out  important  dilierences 
which  had  escaped  the  notice  of  previous 
hibliograpliers.  It  must  be  said,  however, 
that  the  boolis  aslced  were  among  the 
rarest  known  ;  while  several, t  we  feel  cer- 
tain, had  not  been  seen  in  many  years! 

The  number  of  rare  and  valuable  works 
which  are  scattered  in  several  American 
libraries  is  considerable,  but  we  possess  five 
collections  exclusively  devoted  to  America, 
which,  as  far  as  we  have  been  able  to  as- 
certain, surpass  all  libraries  o(  the  kind  in 
Europe.  Tliese  are  the  ccd'.ections  of 
Messrs.  J.  Carter  Brown,  in  Providence, 
Samuel  L,  M.  Bari.ow,  in  New  York  city, 
Peter  Force,  in  Washington,  Henry  C. 
MuRi'HV.  at  Owl's  Head,  Long  Island,  and 
James  Lenox,  in  New  York  cit^.  We 
have  eyamined  all  these,  except  Mr.  Len- 
ox's, wbii  h  we  have  never  seen  ;  but  if  we 
may  judj,e  from  the  sundry  works  vs'hich 
the  owner  permitted  us  to  consult,  and 
from  conversation.il  remarks,  Mr.  Lenox's 
collection  stands  unrivaled. 

It  is  very  much  to  be  regretted  that 
none  of  these  great  libraries  are  catalogued. 
A  largc-papei  Ttrnaux,  interleaved  and 
crammed  with  manuscript  additions,  seems 
to  atford  the  only  clue  to  those  bibliograph- 
ical treasures ;  so  that  if  a  confligration  — 


t  See  Nos.  106,  IC9,  142,  145. 


by  no    means    a    rare   occurrence  in   this 

country — should  destroy  these  collections, 
there  would  be  no  traces  whatever  left  of 
the  losses  thus  sustained  by  the  students  of 
American  history.  Let  is  state,  hiwever, 
that  there  is  in  course  of  publication,  a 
catalogue  of  Mr.  J.  Carter  Brown's  library. 
We  quote  the  parts  already  printed  in  our 
work  under  the  title  of  Bihlhihtca  Broivn- 
ianj,  but  the  real  title  is  as  foUovvs  : 

Bihliotheca  Americana.  A  Catalogue  of 
Books  relating  to  North  and  South  America 
in  the  library  of  Jo'in  Carter  Brown,  of 
Providence,  R.  I.,  ivith  Notes  by  John 
Russell  Bartlett;  Providence,  1866, 
8vo,  First  part  (Fifteenth  century),  pp. 
79,  302  numbers.  Second  part  (up  to 
date),  pp.  I  So,  940  to  the  year  1685. 

The  richness  of  this  collection  in  Co- 
lumbus, Vespuccius  and  Cortes  epistles,  in 
Las  Casases,  De  Brys,  Hulsiuses,  Jesuits  Re- 
lations and  colonial  pamphlets,  will  not 
fail  to  excite  the  admiration  of  scholars, 
and  the  envy  of  European  collectors. 

"  One  of  the  earliest  collections  of  books 
on  America  was  formed  by  Col.  Thomas 
AsPiNwAi.L,  for  nearly  thirty  years  U. 
S.  Consul  at  London.  Extremely  well 
versed  in  the  colonial  history  of  his  coun- 
try, a  bibliophile  of  great  tact  and  activity, 
Col.  Aspinwall  succeeded  in  collecting  a 
number  of  remarkably  rare  and  valuable 
works,  which  the  richest  libraries  at  home 
and  abroad  scarcely  surpassed.    During  one 


' 


Introduction. 


XXXI 


the 


Rich,  but  after  a  few  years  he  returned  to  London  and  resumed 
the  management  of  the  store  to  the  time  of  his  death,  which  took 
place  in  February,  1850.  He  was  much  regretted.  A  gentleman 
by  birth  and  education.  Rich  was  a  very  different  man  from  sev- 
eral of  those  who  now  attempt  to  follow  in  his  wake.  Ent'^-ely 
reliable,  he  scorned  to  resort  to  the  dextrous  artifices  now  so 
much  in  vogue  to  enhance  the  price  of  a  book  ;  and  modest, 
because  he  was  really  learned,  he  never  thrust  himself  before  the 
public  or  worried  reading  communities  with  loud  and  egotistical 
appeals,  from  which  a  true  bibliophile  would  turn  with  disgust. 

The  bibliographies  published  by  Rich  are  only  lists,  chiefly 
composed  of  such  works  as  he  had  for  sale.  *Xin  of  scarce 

books  are  inserted  at  the  end  of  each  year,  with  a  star,  which  is  un- 
derstood to  mean  that  some  of  the  works  were  not  in  Rich's  pos- 
session, but  in  that  of  Col.  Aspinwall.   The  first  of  his  catalogues'^' 


of  his  visits  to  Paris,  in  1833,  Col.  Aspin- 
wall had  printed  a  succinct  catalogue*  of 
his  library,  which  he  withheld  from  circu- 
lation. Attersvards  the  collection  \v,\s  in- 
creased tl'i'eefuld,  and  another  catalogue 
made,  but  it  remained  in  manuscript. 
This  line  library  was  sent  to  Bobton,  and, 
in  1863,  purchased  by  a  gentleman  of  this 
city.  Unfortunately  thirty-live  hundred 
out  of  nearly  four  thousand  volumes  were 
destroyed  in  the  contlagratioii  which  con- 
sumed the  establishment  of  Bangs  Bro- 
thers,f  where  the  books  had  been  tempo- 
rarily stored  after  their  arrival.  Let  us 
hasten  to  say,  however,  that  the  gems  of 
the  collection,  which  had  been  sent  in  ad- 
vance and  brought  to  the  mansion  of  the 
purchaser,  were  saved,  and  still  grace  the 
shelves  of  tlie  library  of  the  friend  to 
whom  we  dedicate  this  work.  These  con- 
sist in  what  we  consider  the  first  edition 
of  de  Cosco's  Latin  version  of  Columbus' 
Epistle  to  Raphael  Sanchez  ;  Madrig- 
nano's  and  Rucliamer's  translations  of  Fra- 
canzio  da  Montalboddo's  Paesi  nouamenie 
retro-vatii  Gruniger'seditionof  Waltze-miil- 
ler's  Cosmo^raphia  Intro Juclio ;  an  extreme- 
ly full  an  1  complete  Latin  De  Bry  ;  the 
unijues  W,.vmouth  and  Bereton  pamphlets; 
the  Earl  of  Warwick's  large  paper  copy  of 


Smith's  History  of  Virgima  ^  an  exten- 
sive collection  of  colonial  pamphlets  relat- 
ing to  New  England  and  Virginia,  and  a 
number  of  such  works,  besides  the  well- 
knowp  folio  volumes  of  original  manu- 
scripts of  the  seventeenth  and  eighteenth 
centuries. J 

"'  A  Cdtalogue  of  B'joH^  relating  princi- 
pally to  America,  arranged  under  the  yean 
in  which  they  nvere  printed j  London:  0. 
Rich,  II,  Red  Lion  Square,  1831,  129  pp. 

— B:,oki  relating  to  America,  1493-1 700 ; 
Supplement,  8vo,  8  pp. 

— Books  relating  to  America,  1493-1700, 
16  pp. 

— Bibliotheca  Americana  Nova  f  or,  a 
catalogue  of  books  in  'various  languages^  re- 
lating to  America,  printed  since  the  year 
1700.  Compiled  principally  from  the  works 
themielves  by  0  Rich,  &c.  ;  London  :  0. 
Rich,  12,  Red  Lion  Sjuare ;  New  York: 
Harper  and  Brothers,  S2  Clijf  Street,  1S35. 


•^  Catahgut  of  books  rtljting  to  ytmirica  in  tht 
colltction  of  CoU  Wi/>ihijall,  Consul  of  tht  Unittd 
States  of  yjmeriiit  at  London  /  8vo,  t.  a,  a.  t. 
[Paris,  i8ji!,  PP-  '*>  77'  numbers. 

t  Si-ptL-inbcr  iSlh,  1864. 

I  A  number  of'  these  works  arc  Jescribed  ill  our 
Bimhthfca  BarUwiana  j  New  York,  MpccCLXtV. 
bin.  S»o,  pp.  )5.     Only  four  copies  printed. 


^' 


XXXll 


Introduction. 


t 


II 


contains  four  hundred  and  eighty-six  books  printed  before  1700, 
and  beginning  with  a  Leip«ic  Vespuccius^  which  is  not  mentioned 
anywhere  else.  This  was  followed  by  two  supplements,  in  which 
we  notice  the  Imago  Mund'i  of  Alyaco,  Lilius'  Orhis  compendia  and 
several  works  on  Guaicum  wood,  none  of  which  are  entitled 
to  a  place  in  an  American  library.  Three  years  later,  Rich 
published  the  first  volume  of  his  Bibliotheca  Americana  Nova, 
which  was  completed  in  1846,  The  edition  of  this  valuable 
work  was  limited  to  two  hundred  and  fifty  copies.  The  books 
are  arranged  in  chronological  order,  with  a  new  set  of  numerals 
for  each  series,  and  he  does  not  limit  himself  to  works  which 
come  to  his  personal  notice,  but  borrows  from  Meusel,  Warden, 
Kennett,  and  even  Reid's  imperfect  compilation,  indicating  how- 
ever, the  source. 

The  Bibliotheca  of  Rich  naturally  brings  to  mind  the  Biblio- 
theque  Americaine  of  Ternaux**.  All  we  could  learn 
concerning  Henri  Ternaux,  afterwards  called  Ter- 
naux-Compans,  is  that  he  was  once  secretary  of 
legation'^',  and  that  he  died  in  December,  1864'^'.  This  pains- 
taking compiler,  collector  and  translator,  is  said  to  have  been 
the  owner  of  the  remarkable  library  which  was  sold  at  auction 


Ternaux 
1837- 


In  the  copy  before  us  there  is  a  second 
title,  as  follows : 

— Bihiiotheca  Americana  Nova,  A  cata- 
logue of  hooks  relating  to  America,  in  -various 
languages,  including  -voyages  to  the  Pacific 
and  Round  the  Worlds  and  Collections  of 
voyages  and  Travels  Printed  since  the  Year 
1700.  Compiled  principally  from  the  ivorks 
themselves,  by  0.  Rich,  &c..  Vol.  i,  lyoi- 
1800;  London:  Rich  and  Sons,  12,  Red 
Lion  Square,  1846.  8vo,  4  prel.  11.4-414 
+  93  pp.  for  Supplement,  dated  1841  ;  and 
Index. 

Vol.  II  (same  title),  1801-1844,  412 
pages. 

"*  Bibliothcjue  Americaine  ou  Catalogue 
des  ouvrages  relatifs  a  I'Amcrique  qui  ont 
paru  depuis  sa  dccouvcrie  jus'ju'a  fan  1700 
par  H.  Ternaux;  Paris,  m.uccc.xxxvii. 
8vo,  viii+191  pp.,  1 1  53  numbers 


"'  yuERARD,  La  France  Littcraire,  Vol. 
IX,  p.  374. 

"  Vavereau,  Dictionnaire  des  Contem- 
porains,  jd  edit.  We  have  vainly  searched 
for  biographic.il  details  concerning  Ter- 
naux in  the  Bulletins  de  la  Sociitc  de  Geog- 
raphic, and  as  late  as  the  number  for  June, 
1865  (which  ii  the  latest  we  could  find  in 
the  city),  there  was  no  mention  even  of 
his  death.  Surely  this  painstaking  com- 
piler, who  translated  and  published  that 
long  series  of  useful  Vofages,  Relations  et 
Mcmoires  originaux  pour  servir  a  I'Histoire 
de  la  Dicouverte  de  I'Amcrique,  and  the  Ar- 
chives des  Voyages,  deserved  at  least  a  pass- 
ing notice  We  do  not  know  what  has 
been  done  since  in  France  in  this  respect, 
but  in  America  we  can  count  on  our  lingers 
those  who  know  that  Ternaux  is  no  longer 
in  the  land  of  the  living! 


.:A 


.# 


Introduction. 


xxxni 


under  the  name  of  Raetzel  in  November,  183697;  and  the  fact 
is  that  all  the  items  bearing  a  date  anterior  to  the  year  1700  are 
included  in  his  well-known  Bibliotheque.  The  latter  is  a  bib- 
liography, comprising  a  description  of  eleven  hundred  and  fifty- 
four  works,  arranged  chronologically,  and  beginning  with 
Plannck's  corrected  edition  of  Columbus'  Letter  to  Sanchezes, 
The  titles  are  abridged,  and  followed  by  a  translation  into 
French  of  the  truncated  titles.  Occasionally  a  note  is  added, 
which  is  generally  of  little  value.  Many  of  the  works  men- 
tioned had  been  in  Ternaux's  possession,  but  we  are  sorry  to 
say  that  we  can  cite  several  which  never  existed^,  and  these 
(owing  to  the  untoward  circumstance  that  Ternaux's  imaginary 
description  of  them  was  copied  by  all  subsequent  bibliographers) 
were  the  cause  of  a  great  deal  of  labor  and  time  wasted  on  our 
part.  These  defects  render  Ternaux's  compilation  much  inferior 
to  Tromel's,  which,  for  the  period  it  covers,  is  one  of  the  best 
American  bibliographies  ever  published. 

Paul  Tromel,  who  died  lately,  was,  we  are  told,  one  of  the 
editors  of  the  Serapeum.  His  Bibliotheque^^  gives  a 
description  of  books  collected  chiefly  by  Muller  of 
Amsterdam,  and  offered   for   sale   by   Brockaus  of 


Tromel. 
1861. 


s   Contcm- 
earched 
Ter- 
de  Giog- 
(o\  June, 
find  in 
even  ot" 
g   corn- 
ed  that 
jiions   ft 
'Hisioire 
the  Ar- 
ast  a  pass- 
vvhat   has 
respect, 
jur  fingers 
no  longer 


"'  Catalogue  des  li-vres  et  manuscrits  de  la 
hihliothetjue   de  feu    M.    KjtrtzzL ;    Pari; 
1836,    8vo,    249    pp.       Part    relating    to 
America  from  No.  908  to  2117. 

•«  Our  No.  4. 

"*  Bihliolhijue  Americaine,  Nos.  II,  44, 
47,  47  bis.  It  seems  that  we  are  not  the 
only  victims  of  this  wild  chase  after  imag- 
inary editions.  A  supposed  second  volume 
of  Ramusio,  dated  1564,  which  rests 
solely  on  the  authority  of  Ternaux  [loc. 
cit.,  p.  1 3 — repeated  in  the  Manuel  and 
Triior),  caused  this  interesting  note ; 
"  Nous  n'avons  pu  en  decouvrir  un  seul 
excmplaire  a  Paris,  malgre  des  recherches 
opiniatres  dans  les  grandcs  blbliotheques  et 
dans  les  plus  riches  collections  d'amateurs  ; 
nous  n'avons  pas  ete  plus  heureux  dans  le 
depouillement  des  catalogues  des  blblio- 
theques des   principales  villes  de  France; 


et  notre  ami  M.  Thomas  Wright  n'a  pas 
eu  plus  de  succes  dans  les  investigations 
qu'il  a  faites  par  lui-meme  ou  par  ses  amis 
dans  les  bibliotheques  les  plus  renommees 
de  Londres,  de  Cambridge  et  d'Oxford. 
Nous  n'osons  guere  esperer  un  meilleur 
resultat  des  verifications  que  nous  avons 
demandces  a  Vienne  et  a  Venise."  D'Av- 
EZAc,  Introduct.  to  his  valuable  edition  of 
Du  Flan  de  Carpin's  Historia  Mon^^a- 
lorum,  in  Recueil  de  foyages  el  de  Mim^ires 
de  la  Soci'cti  de  GiografAie,  Vol.  iv,  p.  435, 
note  I. 

""'  Bibliotheque  Amiricaine,  Catalogue 
raisanne  d'une  Collection  de  livres  precieux 
iur  VArK'erique  paru:  depuis  sa  d'ecowverte 
[?]  jusqua  ran  1700,  en  vente  che%  F.  A. 
Brockhaus  a  Leipzig,  Redigi  par  Paul 
Tromel;  Leipzig,  1861,  8vo,  pp.  xi  -|- 
«33- 


E 


<>■'■*''■' 


^ 


XXXIV 


Introduction. 


Lenox. 
1859. 


Leipzig,  and  contains  four  hundred  and  thirty-five  items,  arranged 
in  chronological  order,  and  enriched  with  notes,  extracts  and 
minute  collations,  which  betray  the  hand  not  only  of  an  expert 
bibliographer,  but  of  a  trustworthy  scholar.  The  collection  is 
especially  rich  in  books  on  New  Netherland  (New  York)  and 
in  Dutch  works  relating  to  Brazil.  We  notice  among  the 
early  rarities,  the  St.  Diey  September  edition  of  Waltze-miiller's 
Cosmographia;  introduction,  Ruchamer's  translation  of  the  Paesi^  and 
a  Basle  1532  Novus  Orbis^  with  the  map. 

Before  mentioning  the  special  bibliographies,  it  behooves  us  to 
notice  a  sumptuously-printed  and  illustrated  descrip- 
tion of  several  of  the  earliest  and  rarest  books  relating 
to  America.  This  valuable  contribution  to  American 
bibliography  forms  an  appendix  to  the  New  York  reprint  of 
Scillacio's  account  of  Columbus'  second  voyage'"',  and  describes 
with  extreme  minuteness  and  accuracy  our  Nos.  i,  2,  3,  4,  5, 
6,  8,  9,  15,  16,  19,  36  and.  1 1 5. 

We  are  inclined  to  believe  that  there  are  bibliographies  of 
local  history  for  all  sections  of  the  American  continent,  as  well 
as  of  the  adjacent  islands  ;  but  the  only  ones  which  have  come 
to  our  notice  are,  for  Paraguay,  the  small  pamphlet  prepared 
by  Alexander  Dalrymple ;  for  Canada,  the  Catalogue  of  Fari- 
bault ;  for  Cuba,  the  dissertations  of  Bachiler;  for  New  Nether- 
land, the  essays  of  G.  M.  Asher ;  for  Guyana, 
the  works  of  Victor  de  Nouvion'°*  and  of  Du 
Pare  d'Avagour'°^ ;  for  Brazil,  the  important  dic- 
tionary of  Da  Silva'°'* ;  for  Nueva-Granada,  the 
Compendio  of  Joaquin  Acosta'°' ;  and   for   Pata- 


de  nouvion 
d'  Avagour 

DA    SiLVA. 
ACOSTA. 

d'Orbigny. 


.«  > 


""  Nicolaui  Syllaciui  De  Iniulis  Meridiani 
atque  Indici  Maris  Nuptr  In-ventis.  With 
a  translation  into  English  by  the  Rev,  John 
Mulligan,  A.  M.;  New  York,  1859,  fol. 
and  4to,  loj-f-lxiii  pp.,  Portrait -|-i8  fac- 
similes.    (Privately  printed.) 

""  Extrait  des  auteurs  et  voyageurs  qui  ont 
icrit  sur  la  Guyane,  suivi  du  Catalogue  bih- 
tiographijue  de  la  Guyane i  Paris,  l844,8vo. 


'"'  La  France  rendue  florissante  par  la 
Guyane ;  Paris,  1852,  8vo.  Liste  de  320 
auteurs,  pp.  40-48. 

'"*  Diccion.  bibliogr.  portug.  Estud.  de  In- 
Noc.  Franc,  da  Silva  applicaveis  a  0  Por- 
tug. e  BraiiLi  Lisbva,  iS  58-62,  7  vols.,  8vo. 

'°°  Compendio  del  descubrimiento  y  colo- 
nizacion  de  la  Nueva-Granada  en  el  siglo 
decimo  te>:to  ;   Paris,  1848,  8vo. 


v^ 


1 


* 


i. 


Introduction. 


XXXV 


5  the 
iller's 
/,  and 


Dalrymple. 
1807. 


gonia,  the  notices  scattered  over  the  great  work  of  Alcide 
D'Orbigny"*.  The  first  four  of  these  deserve  an  extended 
notice. 

The  history  of  Paraguay,  not  only  under  the  domination  of 
the  Jesuits  from  1556  to  1767,  but  from  the 
time  when  Spain  ceded  this  rich  country  to  Por- 
tugal to  the  beginning  of  our  century,  when  it 
was  again  a  Spanish  possession,  soon  to  become  a  republic, 
presents  features  of  uncommon  interest.  The  thin  pamphlet 
prepared  by  Alexander  Dalrymple,  the  well-known  English  geog- 
rapher, found  therefore  a  ready  sale,  and  is  not  now  easily 
obtained.  It  is  a  small  catalogue'%  devoted  exclusively  to 
works  treating  of  Rio  de  la  Plata  and  Paraguay,  arranged  in  the 
order  of  dates,  from  1534  to  1806,  with  supplements,  the  last 
of  which  was  published  only  a  few  months  before  Dalrymple's 
death.  The  list  is  only  Pinelo-Barcia's,  enlarged  with  few 
additions,  taken  chiefly  from  Muratori's  "  Cristianisimo  Felice, 
and  such  books  as  the  compiler  could  find  in  the  British 
Museum. 


1<  par  la 
de  320 


.  '':  '""  V Homme  Americain  comidere  sous  les 

rapports  physioSogi/jues  et  moraux ;  Paris, 
1839,  8vo,  2  vols.  +  atlas. 

Dr.  Julius  Petzholdt  cites  in  his  Bih- 
liotheca  Bihliographica, 

On  page  807  : 
•-'j£  Centro-Amerika.      Nach  den  gegeniviirti- 

gen  Zasliinden  dts  Landes  und  Voltes,  in  Be- 
zie/iunir  der  beiden  Octane  undim  Interesseder 
deulschen  Auswanderun^  brarbeitet  von  C. 
F.  Reichardt;  Braunschiveig,  1851,  8vo. 
Enthalt  C  255-56:  Die  neuere  Lileratur 
iiber  Centro-Amerika.  Die  neueren  Schrif- 
ten  iiber  die  Btrbindung  der  beiden  Oceane. 

On  page  808  : 

fVanderungen  durch  die  mittel-amerikan- 
ischen  Freistaaten  Nicaragua,  Honduras  und 
San  Salvador.  Mil  HinblicK  auf  deutsche 
Emigration  unddeutschen  Handel,  -von  Carl 
Scherzer;  Braunschiveig,  1857,  8vo.  Ent- 
halt C.  510-12:  Bibliograpkisches  Ver- 
zcicAniss  der  neueren  und  neuesten  Werke 
und  Abhandlungen  iiber  die  fiinf  Freistaa- 
ten Central-AmerHas, 


On  page  810  : 

Histoire  physique^  iconomique  et  politique 
du  Paraguay  et  des  ctablissements  des  jfe- 
suites ;  accompagn'ce  d'une  Bibliographie  ; 
par  L.  Alfred  Demersay,  Tom.  i ;  Paris, 
1800,  large  8vo. 

On  page  812 : 

Haiti,  ses  progrcs,  son  avenir,  avec 
un  precis  historijue  sur  ses  constitutions, 
le  texte  de  la  constitution  actuellement 
en  -vigueur  et  une  bibliographie  d" Haiti} 
par  Alexandre  Bonneau  ;  Paris,  1862, 
8vo. 

On   page  813  : 

Catalogue  d'un  Choix  de  Li-vres  relatifs 
a  rAmerique  et  particuliirement  aux  Anti- 
quitcs  et  a  P  Histoire  naturelle  du  Mexirue  ; 
Paris,  1857,  8vo. 

"  Einc  Klciiic,  abcr  gut  gewahltc  und  geord- 
nctc  Sammlung  von  180  Nrr. 

'"'  Catalogue  0/  Authors  who  have  writ- 
ten on  Rio  de  la  Plata,  Paraguay,  and  Chaco, 
collectedby  A.  Dalrymple;  London,  1807- 
8,  4W>  «7+3  +  -  PP- 


3f 


XXXVl 


Introduction. 


•!S 


■I 


\^- 


Faribault. 
1837- 


George  Barthelemy  Faribault,  an  attorney  at  Quebec,  pub- 
lished in  1837,  a  catalogue  in  three  parts'"^,  giv- 
ing, in  alphabetical  and  chronological  orders,  a 
list  of  works,  clipped  chiefly  from  booksellers' 
catalogues,  and  enriched  with  notes  borrowed  from  Pinkerton, 
La  Richarderie,  and  Michaud's  Biographie  Universelle.  The  first 
two  parts  contain  nine  hundred  and  sixty-nine  articles,  the  third 
is  devoted  to  maps  and  plans.  Judging  from  the  sign  affixed  to 
the  titles,  and  indicating  that  the  works  are,  or  were,  in  the 
library  to  which  Faribault  had  access,  not  one  tenth  of  the 
books  described  seem  to  have  been  examined  by  the  author. 
The  list  abounds  in  errors  of  all  kinds'"^. 

To   New   Yorkers,  G.    M.  Asher's   series   of  memoirs   on 

Dutch  books  relating  to  New-Netherlands"°  is 

G.  M.  ASHER.  ,      , ,  .,     .  T»  J 

Q  a   very   valuable   compilation.     It   was   under- 

taken for  Frederick  Muller,  the  Amsterdam 
bookseller,  and  compiled  chiefly  from  works  which  he  had  for 
sale  at  the  time  ;  but,  owing  to  a  quarrel  between  the  compiler 
and  his  employer,  the  series  never  was  completed.  Although 
the  section  relating  to  maps  and  charts  bears  on  the  cover  the 


'"'  Catalogue  d'ouvra^^  es  sur  I'histoire  de 
rAmerijue,  el  en  partkulier  sur  celle  du  Ca- 
nada, de  la  Louisiane,  de  I'Acadie,  el  autres 
lieux,  ci-defant  connus  sous  le  nom  de  Nou- 
•vetle-France ;  avec  des  notes  bibliograph- 
iques,  critijues,  et  littcraires.  En  Trois  Par- 
ties. Redige  par  G.  B.  Faribault,  Avo- 
cat i  Quebec,  1837,  8vo,  407  pp. 

'""  As  an  instance: 

"  18.  Angiadelo  (Jean  Marie)  Le 
Nouveau-Monde,  nouvellement  decouvcrt 
par  Americ  Vespuce  :   (en  Italian.)  1519; 

in-4.    Sans  lieu  d'impression On  a 

public  une  traduction  latine  de  cet  ouvrage, 
mais  on  n'a  pu  en  decouvrir  la  date  ni  le 
lieu  d'impression  ;  en  voici  le  titre  : 

1 9.  —  Mundus-Novus ;  de  natura,  mori- 
bus  et  ceteris  istius  generis  gentiumque  in 

Novo-Mundo autore    Americo 

Vespucio,  /n-i6. 

15.    Anghieha.     De   Rebus  Oceanis  et 


Orbe  Novo,  Decades  tres  :  Bale,  1 51 6, 
1590;   Paris,  1532,  in-4.  1536,  in-fol. 

373.  Las  Casas.  Bre-vissima  relacion  ; 
Seville,  1532,  in-4,"  '^c..  Sec. 

These  errors  can  be  traced  to  Boucher 
DE  la  Richarderie. 

""  Prospectus  of  a  Bihliographical  and 
Historical  Essay  on  the  Dutch  hooks  and 
Pamphlets  relating  to  New- Netherland,  and 
to  the  Dutch  ffest-India  Company,  as  also 
on  the  Maps,  Charts,  &c.  of  New-Nether- 
land.  Compiled  from  the  Dutch  public  and 
private  libraries,  and  chief y  from  the  col- 
lection of  Mr.  Frederick  Muller  in  Amster- 
dam. By  G.  M.  AsHER  j  Amsterdam  and 
New  York,  1854. 

***  4to,  pp.  1 20-1-2  11.  for  additions -|- 
a  large  map  of  the  country  -|-  1  1.  for  title 
of  A  List  of  The  Maps  and  Charts  of  New- 
Neiherland  +  20  pp.  -(-  12  11.  tor  List  of 
Names. 


m 


*'# 


jM 


Introduction. 


xxxvii 


title  of  Parts  IVth  and  Vth,  Part  IV  is  still  in  manuscript,  in 
the  possession  of  M.  Muller.  As  far  as  the  compilation  ex- 
tends, it  must  be  considered  a  bibliographical  contribution  of 
great  merit  and  usefulness.  In  consequence  of  the  compiler's 
extreme  unpopularity,  his  publications  are  frequently  assailed  ; 
but  we  have  only  to  judge  a  work  on  its  merits,  and  freely 
confess  that  bibliophiles  must  go  as  far  back  as  Camus  to  find 
a  bibliography  which  can  favorably  compare  with  M.  G.  M. 
Asher's  Essay. 

As  the  compiler  had  access  to  the  Dutch  public  and  private 
libraries,  it  is,  however,  surprising  that  he  should  have  com- 
menced the  list  with  de  Laet's  Nieuwe  Wereldt.  There  are 
works  relating  to  New-Netherland  of  an  earlier  date.  As  far  as 
we  can  ascertain,  the  first  book  of  this  character  is  the  supple- 
mentary volume  of  Emanuel  Van  Meteren's  history  of  the 
Netherlands'",  which  was  published  in  1611,  and  contains  the 
first  account  that  appeared  in  print  of  Hudson's  voyage  for 
the  East-India  Company.  Mr.  Asher  also  omits  the  Hudson 
tract  of  1612"*  and  its  Latin  editions"'.  There  are  several 
more  omissions  of  the  same  character,  which  we  leave  to  those 
who  devote  themselves  to  the  bibliography  of  this  section  of  the 
country  to  point  out.     The  reader,  however,  is  doubtless  aware 


"'  Belgische  ofte  Nederlanlsche  Oorlogen 
ende  Geschiedenintn  beginnendf  van  I  jaer 
1595  tot  161 1,  medi  •vervatende  enighe  ge- 
hueren  handelinght,  Bcschrcven  door  Eman- 
uel Van  iMeteren.  Bij  hemvoor  dc  Uite 
reyse  oversie  •verbelert  ende  -vermeerdert  na 
die  copie  gedruckt  op  Schotlant  huyten  Dans- 
ivyck  by  Hermes  "van  Lo-ven.  Voor  den 
Autheur  Anno  1611. 

*4t*  4to,  sine  loco  (Dordrecht'),  360 
r\umb.  11.  BLACK  letter. 

'"  Beschrytiinghe  van  der  Samoyeden 
landt  in  Tartarien.  Nieulijcki  onder't ghebiedt 
der  Mosccviten  gebracht.  fVt  de  Russcbe 
tale  overgieset,  Anno  1 609.  Met  een  ver- 
hael  van  de  ofsoeckingh  ende  ontdeckinge  van 
de  nieuwe  deurgang  ofte  straet  int  Noord- 
iveslen  na  de  Rycken  van  China  ende  Cathay, 


Ende  een  Memoriae/,  gepresenteert  aan  den 
Coningh  van  Spaengien,  belanghende  de  ont- 
deckinge ende  gheleghenheyt  van't  Land ghe- 
naemt  Australia  Incognita.  1'  Amsterdam  by 
Hessel  Gerriisss.  Boeckvercooper,  opt  fya- 
ter,  inde  Pascaert,  Anno  161 2. 

***  4ti),  40.  pp.  +  3  maps. 

'"Amsterdam,  1612;  4to,  46  pp. +3 
maps;  and  same  place,  1613,  4t<),  44  pp. 
+  4  maps,  text  entirely  re-written. 

We  borrow  these  titles  from  the  Hon. 
Henry  C.  Murphy's  extremely  interesting 
and  valuable  : 

Henry  Hudson  in  Holland.  An  injuiry 
into  the  origin  and  objects  of  the  voyage  ivhich 
ted  to  the  discovery  of  the  Hudson  River. 
IVith  bibliographical  notes.  The  Hague, 
1859,  8vo,  pp.  72.     (Privately  printed.) 


XXXVIU 


Introduction. 


that  to  study  the  early  history  of  New-Netherland,  it  is  neces- 
sary to  go  beyond  the  Dutch  books,  and  commence  even  with 
Lescarbot  and  the  relation  of  Lord  Delaware.     The  field  is  ex- 
tensive, and  let  us  hope  that  one  of  the  three  New  York  bibli- 
ophiles who  possess  in  their  libraries  all  the  works  relating  to  the 
subject,  will  till  it  to  the  satisfaction  of  scholars  and  historians. 
The  bibliography  by  Senor  Bachiler  y  Morales"*  is  a  kind  of 
appendix  to  a  scries  of  contributions  to  the  literary 
Qr        '  history  of  Cuba,  describing  a  number  of  works  pub- 
lished in  the  island  from  the  time  of  the  introduction 
of  printing  thither  to  the  year  1840.     The  earliest  work  bears 
the  date  of  1724"%  but  it  seems  that  there  is  a  Havana  impres- 
sion of  1720"*.     As  to  the  assertion  of  Ambrosio  Valiente"^ 
that  printing  was  first  introduced  in  Santiago  de  Cuba  as  early 
as  1698,  we  apprehend  that  no  Cuban  book  of  tiic  seventeenth 
century  can  be  produced. 

Dr.  Hermann  E.  Ludewig,  a  Dresden  jurist  who  emigrated 
to  America  in  1844,  where  he  resided  until  his  death 
in  1856,  prepared  soon  after  his  arrival  a  bibliog- 
raphy"^ of  works  relating  to  each  State  and  Terri- 
tory in  the  Union.  The  titles  are  arranged  by  states,  counties 
and  towns,  with  references  to  historical  collections,  numbering 
about  fourteen  hundred  volumes,  which  belong  chiefly  to  the 
present  century.  It  was  this  useful  work  which  prompted  the 
publication  by  Norton  of  a  series  of  local  bibliographies,  of  which 


LUDWIG. 

1846. 


"*  Apuntes  para  la  Historla  de  las  Le- 
tras,  y  de  la  Instruccion  publica  de  la  Isla 
de  Cuba.  Por  Antonio  Bachiller  y  Mo- 
rales; Habana,  1861,  8vo,  Part  iii,  pp. 
IZI-241. 

"°  Meritos  yue  ha  jutlificaJo  y  probado 
el  Ldv.  D.  Antonio  de  sossa,  Sec. ;  Havana, 
Imprenta  de  Carlos  Habrc,  410. 

"*"he  adquirido  casualmente  un  im- 
preso  que  parece  de  1720  ...  es  una  carta 
de  esclavitud  a  la  Virgen  Santisima  del  Ro- 
sario,  sin  nonnbre  de  impresion."  Apuntei ; 
p.  121,  note. 


"'  "  Introduccion  de  la  imprenta,  1698. 
— Introducese  la  imprenta  en  esta  ciudad, 
primera  que  se  establece  en  la  Isla."  Tabla 
Cronoligica  de  los  sucesos  occurridos  en  la  ciu- 
dad de  Santiago  de  Cuba ;  New  York, 
1853,  iimu,  p.  30. 

""  The  literature  of  American  local  His- 
tory f  a  bibliographical  essay,  by  Hermann 
E.  LuDEWin ;  New  York,  mdcccxlvi,  8vo, 
XX  +  180  pp.  First  Supplement  extracted 
from  The  Literary  fVortd,  for  Feb.  15th, 
1848;  8vo,  pp.  20.  Relates  exclusively 
to  New  York. 


I| 


I 


I 


Introduction. 


XXXIX 


we  have  seen  only  the  Bibliographies  of  New  Hampshire"'  and 
Maine"°.  Mr.  J.  R.  Bartlett's  elaborate  Bibliography  of  Rhode 
Island'"  shows  how  wide  a  field  local  bibliography  offers  to 
painstaking  bibliographers.  His  catalogue,  which  gives  a  list  of 
the  works  relating  to  one  of  the  smallest  States  in  the  Union, 
and  which  was  a  wilderness  a  couple  of  centuries  ago,  fills  not 
less  than  two  hundred  and  eighty-seven  octavo  pages.  The  de- 
scriptions were  all  made  from  the  original  works,  which  are, 
without  any  exception,  in  private  libraries  in  Rhode  Island. 
The  earliest  book  mentioned  is  Hakluyt,  on  account  of  Verra- 
zano's  description  of  Narragansett  Bay. 

As  Dr.  Ludwig  justly  remarked  "  Exotic  languages  are  no 
longer  considered  as  mere  matters  of  curiosity,  but 
are  looked  upon  as  interesting  parts  of  the  natural 
history  of  man,  and  as  such  receive  their  share  of 
the  brilliant  light  which  modern  critical  studies  have  shed  upon 
the  natural  sciences  in  general."  No  other  reason  need  be 
adduced  for  including  in  our  list  his  enlarged  edition'"  of  that 


LuDWIG. 

1848. 


"•  By  S.  C.  Eastman,  in  Norton' t  Liter- 
ary Letter  f  New  Series,  i860,  No.  i,  pp. 
8-10. 

lao  By  William  Willis,  1859,  pp.  11- 

3°-  .... 

Tiiere  are  otiier  bibliograpliies  of  tiiis 

character,  but  tliey  seem  to  be  scattered  in 
reviews  or  newspapers.  We  notice  tiie  fol- 
lowing : 

Biblio^rafa  Californica  ;  or,  Notes  and 
Materials  to  aid  in  forming  a  more  perfect 
Bibliography  of  those  countries  anciently 
called  "  California"  and  lying  ivilhin  the 
limits  of  the  Gulf  of  Cortes  to  the  Arctic 
Seas  and  IVest  of  the  Rocty  Mountains  to 
the  Pacific  Ocean,  by  A.  S.  Taylor.  {Sac- 
ramento Daily  Union,  for  June  25th,  1863.) 

— Continuation  (copyrighted),  same 
newspaper  for  March  13,  1866.  The  com- 
piler states  that  he  made  use  of  two  cata- 
logues in  the  Sacramento  Union  of  May, 
1858,  in  the  Herald  of  Jane,  1858,  and 
of  a  partial  catalogue  of  works  on  the 
Pacific  Ocean,  in  the  Polynesian  news- 
paper of  July,   1844.     The  references  in 


Mr.  Taylor's  "  Biiliografa"  to  works  pub- 
lished in  the  last  fifty  years,  are  useful ; 
but  as  regards  the  sixteenth  anJ  seven- 
teenth centuries,  the  compilation  is  of  no 
value  whatever.  It  is  evident  that  the 
compiler  has  only  an  inadequate  notion  of 
the  works  which  he  jumbles  together. 
Nothing  worth  preserving  will  ever  be 
accomplished  in  bibliography  so  long  as  a 
pair  of  scissors  is  deemed  the  only  requisite 
to  prepare  what  Mr.  Taylor  calls  a  "  Bib- 
liografa." 

— Descriptive  Catalogue  of  Historical 
References  to  tie  f alley  of  the  Mississippi, 
by  J.  M.  Peck.  (American  Pioneer,  Cin- 
cinnati, Vol.  11),  pp.  262-9,  3'4~3*3)- 
Begins  with  De  Soto  in  English  translations. 

'■•"  Bibliography  of  Rhode  Island.  A 
catalogue  of  Books  and  other  Publications 
relating  to  the  State  of  Rhode  Island,  with 
notes,  historical,  biographical  and  critical; 
Providence,  1864,  8vo. 

'"  The  Literature  of  American  Aborig- 
inal Languages.  By  Hermann  £.  Ludwig. 
With  additions  and  corrections  by  Professor 


V    1' 


Xl 


Introduction. 


t 

r* 


part  of  Vater's  Linguarum  totius  orb'ts  inrfex,  which  treats  of 
American  languages.  It  is  an  extremely  valuable  compendium, 
giving  the  titles  of  the  grammars  and  lexicons  devoted  exclu- 
sively to  the  aboriginal  idioms,  with  copious  references  to  the 
works  which  treat  of  the  subject  incidentally.  Not  less  than 
nine  hundred  tribes  arc  represented  in  this  curious  collection, 
with  a  corresponding  number  of  bibliographical  authorities  ;  yet, 
if  we  may  be  permitted  to  judge  from  the  annotated  copy  which 
our  friend  Dr.  Bcrendt  is  preparing  for  tl  e  press,  Dr.  Ludwig's 
work  does  not  cover  the  whole  ground,  nor  is  it  free  from 
mistakes  and  important  omissions.  Withal,  it  must  be  consid- 
ered a  compilation  of  unusual  interest. 

The  works  of  Messrs.  E.  G.  Squieis  and  Schoolcraft  belong 
to  this  class  of  bibliographies.     The  first  of  these"' 

%,.       '     is  a  brief  account  of  one  hundred  and  ten  authors 

lOOI. 

who  wrote  on  the  languages  of  Central  America, 
followed  by  a  list  of  books  and  MSS.  relating  wholly  or  in  part 
to  the  history,  aborigines  and  antiquities  of  Central  America. 
The  biographical  notices  are  extracted  from  the  Bibiwteca  of 
Beristain,  while  many  of  the  titles  are  derived  not  from  an 
examination  of  the  works  themselves,  bur  from  the  notices  in 
Ramesal,  Vasquez,  Cogolludo,  Villagutierre,  De  Souza,  and 
similar  sources. 

As  to  Schoolcraft's"*  list,  it  is  limited  to  the  works  composed 
and  printed  in  the  languages  of  the  Indians, 
which  were  preserved  in  the  Department  of  the 
Interior   at   Wafhington,   and    simply   with    the 


Schoolcraft. 
1849. 


Wm.  W.  Turner.  Edited  by  Nicolas 
Trubnir.  (Part  i  o(  "  TrUhner^  Bihlio- 
iheca  Gloltka") ;  London,  mdccclviii,  8vo, 
pp.  XXIV  +  258. 

""  Monograph  of  Authon  who  have  •writ- 
ten on  the  Languages  of  Central  America, 
and  co'lected  vocabularies  or  composed  works 
in  thi  native  dialects  of  that  country  ;  New 
York,  M.D.ccc.LXi,  4to,  pp.  xv  +  53  +  16 
for  appendix  and  index. 


"*  A  Bibliographical  Catalogue  of  Books, 
Translations  of  the  Scriptures,  and  other  pub- 
lications in  the  Indian  Tongues  of  the  United 
States  i  with  brief  critical  notices.  By  H. 
R.  Schoolcraft;  Washington,  1849,  8vo, 
pp.  i8  ;  attLiwards  reprinted  with  additions 
in  Historic,  and  Statist.  Information  respect- 
ing the  Hist.  &c.  of  the  Indian  Tribes,  &c. } 
Philad.,  1851,  4to,  Vol.  iv,  p.  523,  sj. 

We  must  also  call  the  attention  of  our 


M 


I 


Introduction. 


xli 


view  of  obtaining  information  to  render  the  inquiry  more  com- 
plete. 

We  know  of  several  other  catalogues,  some  of  which  are 
exclusively  composed  of  American  books,  while  a  certain  num- 
ber, although  covering  the  entire  field  of  history  and  literature, 
contain  many  valuable  titles  ;  but  they  are  chiefly  lists  prepared 
by  booksellers'",  or  catalogues  of  sale"",  and  to  notice  them 
all  would  so  enlarge  the  scope  of  our  work  as  to  remind  the 
reader  of  a  certain  verse  of  Juvenal'*^,  which,  we  greatly  appre- 
hend, will  be  uttered  at  all  events.  Several  extensive  collections, 
such  as  the  Scriptores  Ordinis  Mitiorum  of  Wadding,  the  Scrip- 
tores  Ordhtis  Pr  el  die  at  arum  of  Quctif  and  Echard,  the  curious 
compilation  of  Stoecklein'**,  the  dictionaries  of  Philip  Alegambe, 
Nathaniel   Southwell'%  Foppens,   Nicholas    Antonio,   Barbosa 


readers  to  a  small  work  in  course  of  pub- 
lication, which  promises  to  be  a  valuable 
addition  to  comparative  Philology,  viz.  : 

Apuntes  pora  un  catatogo  de  escriiores  tn 
Ltnguai  inaigenas  de  y^merica,  por  Joaquin 
Garcia  Icazbalceta  ;  Mexico,  1866, 
l2mo ;  and  to 

— Noiicia  de  las  personal  que  hart  escrito 
n  publicado  algunas  ohras  sobre  idiomas  que 
se  hablan  en  la  Repuhlica  \^De  Mexico'\,  por 
D».  Jose  Guadalupe  Romero,  in  Bolelin 
de  la  Sociedad  Mex.  de  Geogr.  Vol.  viii, 
1862,  pp.  374-386. 

Also  to  the  following,  although  it  re- 
lates chieHy  to  the  history  or  manners  of 
the  Indians : 

Catalogue  of  the  Private  Library  of  Sam- 
uel G.  Drake,  of  ffoston,  cAirJly  relating  to 
tie  Antiquities,  History  and  Biography  of 
America,  and  in  an  especial  manner  to  the 
Indians,  collected  and  used  by  him  in  pre- 
paring his  IVorks  upon  the  Aborigines  of 
America  i  Boston,  1845,  8vo. 

■''"  The  following  from  a  New  England 
bookseller  settled  in  London,  is  printed 
with  remarkable  accuracy:  Historical  Nug- 
gets II  Bibliotheca  Americana  or  a  descriptive 
account  of  my  collection  of  rare  books  relating 
to  America  II  Henry  Stevens  o  m  b  f  s  a  II 
London,  mdccclxii,  lamo,  xii  +  805  pp. 
in  two  vols;  2934  items,  with  prices. 

Of    Stevens's    American    Bibliographer, 


Chiswirk,  1854,  8vo,  only  two  numbers 
were  published.  These  cover  96  pages, 
giving  a  number  of  titles  in  alphabetical 
order,  with  minute  collations,  a  map  and 
several  illustrations. 

"•  The  Bibliotheca  Heberiana  and  the 
Courtanvaujt  (Paris,  1783),  Hibbert,  Mon- 
didier  (London,  i85i),and  Butsch  (Augs- 
burg, 1858)  catalogues  present  features  of 
great  interest  in  this  respect.  Vol.  vii  of 
the  Bibliotheca  Thottiana  contains  several 
titles  of  extremely  rare  works,  among  which 
a  Syllacio  (p.  223). 

'"  "Scriptus  et  in  tergo  necdum  finitus 
Orestes."     Satyr.  I.  6. 

""  Reisebeschreitungen  von  der  Missio- 
nariis  der  Gesellschaft  Jesu  ;  Augsburg, 
1726,  fol..  Vols.  I-XXXII. 

""  Bibliotheca  Scriptor.  See.  Jesv  ; 
Roma;,  M.Dc.Lxxvi,  fol.,  describes  the  works 
of  not  less  than  2237  authors.  But  all 
these  bibliographies  of  Jesuit  writers  have 
been  superseded  by  the  following,  which  is 
.  aught  with  reliable  notices,  both  bio- 
graphical and  bibliographical  : 

AuGUSTiN  ET  Alois  de  Backer  j  Bib- 
liolhique  des  Ecrivains  de  la  Compagnie  de 
yisus,  ou  Notices  Bibliographiques  de  tout 
les  ouvrages  publics  par  les  membres,  Sec, 
Liege,  1853,  large  8vo.  We  know  of  six 
series,  each  one  forming  a  complete  collec- 
tion arranged  in  alphabetical  order. 


xlii 


Introduction. 


K 


Humboldt. 
1836-9. 


Machailo  and  Fabricius,  as  well  as  the  Annates  of  Maittaire  and 
Panzer,  describe  a  great  many  works  relating  to  the  New  World, 
but  as  they  are  not  grouped  in  a  separate  division,  we  do  not 
include  them  in  this  list,  although  the  reader  will  find  in  the 
following  pages  frequent  references  to  those  valuable  collections. 
But  there  is  a  series  of  dissertations  which  all  American  bib- 
liographers and  historians  should  constantly  keep 
at  their  elbow.  It  is  the  Examen  Critique'^"  of  Hum- 
boldt. This  nol '  work,  which  we  consider  the 
greatest  monument  ever  erected  to  the  early  history  of  this  con- 
tinent, is,  despite  a  few  immaterial  errors''",  a  sure  guide,  which 
has  proved  to  us  an  inexhaustible  source  of  valuable  suggestions. 
The  bibliographical  notes  contained  in  the  Examen  arc  not,  we 
confess,  in  keeping  with  the  learned  and  profound  dissertations 
which  we  can  never  cease  to  admire,  but  there  is  scarcely  a 
page  which  does  not  throw  a  vivid  light  upon  every  question 
connected  with  the  geography,  discovery  and  history  of  America. 
We  regret  to  say  that  the  manuscript  additions  which  were  to 
complete  the  work  are,  owing  to  the  culpable  remissness  of 
a  certain  American  bookseller  in  London,  probably  lost.  If  so, 
it  is  the  greatest  misfortune  which  could  befall  the  student  of 
American  History"''. 


"°  Examen  Critique  de  VHiUoire  de  la 
G'eographie  du  Nowveau  Continent  et  des 
Progr'ei  de  r Aitronomie  Nautijue  au  Sluin- 
aieme  et  Seiaieme  Siiclei }  Paris,  1836-39, 
8vo,  5  vols.,  with  sectiuns  of  the  La  Cusa 
map.     Dedicated  to  Araco. 

The  Histoire  de  la  Geographic  du  Nou- 
veau  Continent,  &c,,  Paris,  n.  d.  is  only 
composed  of  the  unsold  sheets  of  the 
above,  bound  in  two  volumes,  with  a  new 
title-page,  and  an  introduction  of  four 
'pages,  but  without  the  sections  of  the  La 
Cosa  chart,  which  in  this  new  issue  are 
replaced  by  two  well-executed  maps  of 
this  continent. 

"'  For  instance,  he  falls  into  the  error 
of  Capmnani,  Salazar,  Zach  and  others, 
who  give   the  title  of  Raymond    LuUy's 


lAhro  Felix  6  maravillas  del  mundo,  as  El 
Fenix  de  lai  maravillat  del  mundo.  See 
D'AvEZAC,  Bulletin  de  la  Sociiti  de  Giogr. 
for  October,  1857. 

'"  Our  readers  are  doubtless  aware  that 
the  most  important  cartographical  monu- 
ment concerning  the  New  World  is  the 
manuscript  chart  of  Juan  de  la  Cosa,  an 
extremely  sitillful  pilot,  who  accompanied 
Columbus  in  his  second  voyage.  This 
map,  which  bears  the  inscription  "Juan 
de  la  Cosa  la  fixo  en  el  puerto  de  Sta  Maria 
en  alto  de  1 500,"  was  discovered  in  1831,  by 
Humboldt,  in  the  library  of  Walcicn«r, 
and  is  now  in  the  Royal  Library  of  Mad- 
rid, having  been  purchased  by  the  Queen 
of  Spain  for  4020  francs,  or  about  the 
tenth  part  of  the  sum  which  certain  Amer- 


Introduction. 


xliii 


IV. 


The  bibliographies  which  we  have  juft  described  contain  a 
mention,  more  or  less  succinct,  of  nearly  all  the  works  relating 
to  America,  known  at  the  present  day  ;  and  whatever  may  be 
their  incompleteness  or  imp-rfections,  they  must  be  considered 
a  source  of  indispensable  references.  But  it  is  a  question 
whether,  as  a  whole,  these  bibliographical  repertories  arc  ade- 
quate to  the  wants  of  the  student  of  history.  Could  we  boast 
of  exhaustive  historical  compositions,  delineating  in  a  critical 
manner  the  annals  of  every  section  of  this  country,  and  pre- 
paratory to  a  comprehensive  history  of  the  entire  continent,  the 
necessity  for  a  complete  and  trustworthy  Bibllotheca  Americana 
would  still  be  felt.     But  it  must  be  confessed  that  wc  possess 


ican  collector!  have  frequently  offered  for 
a  De  Bry,  which,  as  a  work  of  reference, 
is  totally  worthless.  Ue  la  Cosa's  chart 
has  been  published  several  times,  but  never 
described  or  annotated.  Humboldt  p'om- 
ised  to  do  so.  "  Je  n'anticiperai  pas," 
said  he,*  "  sur  Ics  renscignements  plus 
amples  que  je  dois  donner  sur  la  personne 
de  Juan  de  la  Cosa,  en  decrivant,  dans  la 
Iroiseme  leclion  de  cet  ouvrage,  la  mappe- 
monde  de  ce  cclebre  navigateur."  That 
third  section  never  was  published  j  but 
after  Humboldt's  death,  his  library  (which 
was  composed  of  presentation  copies  of 
modern  works)  was  found  to  contain  a  set 
of  the  five  volumes  of  the  first  issue  of 
the  Examen,  which  the  compiler  of  the 
catalogue-)-  described  as  "  having  numerous 
manuscript  additions  in  the  autograph  of 
tlie  author,  who  evidently  contemplated  a 
supplementary  volume."  This  assertion  is 
confirmed  by  the  following  note  in  the 
Cosmos  ;J     ''  I  here  give  the  principal  re- 


*  Examtn  Critiqui,  Vol.  Ill,  p.  l8j. 
t  Tht   Humhililt  Uhrary  ;    London,  l86},  8vo, 
11164  items.  No,  4658, 
X  Bohn's  edit..  Vol,  II,  p,  6]l. 


suits  which  are  contained  in  the  sixth 
(still  unpublished)  volume  of  my  Examen 
Criiifue."  Steps  were  immediately  taken 
to  purchase  this  valuable  set,  with  the 
view  -.)f  translating  the  work  into  English, 
and  of  adding  biographical  and  bibliograph- 
ical annot-'tions,  which  are  now  embodied 
in  the  p  int  Bihliotheca  jimericana  Vt- 
lusiissima.  The  order  came  too  late,  as 
the  set  had  already  been  bought  by  a  gen- 
tleman of  this  city.  Unfortunately,  the 
work  was  not  delivered  at  the  time  of  the 
purchase.  Three  years  have  now  elapsed, 
and  Humboldt's  supplementary  volume  to 
the  Examen  Criiijue  is  still  missing.  It  is 
not  even  known  what  has  become  of 
those  precious  additions,  which  no  work, 
as  yet  written,  could  possibly  replace,  and 
without  which  the  early  history  of  Amer- 
ica can  be  only  imperfectly  studied  and 
analysed.  We  sometimes  hear  the  name 
of  that  bookseller  praised  ;  but  let  the 
reader  imagine  the  bibliopoles  employed 
by  Peiresc,  for  instance,  guilty  of  such 
gross  negligence,  what  calamities  would 
the  historian  of  Science  and  Literature 
have  to  record  ! 


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Introduction. 


no  compositions  of  this  character.  True  it  is  that  we  find  here, 
in  almost  every  household,  works  which  purport  to  enlighten 
us  concerning  the  past  of  several  American  nations.  Some  of 
these  display  great  talents  and  still  greater  imagination  ;  others 
exhibit  style  and  research  ;  while  one,  which  is  perhaps  the 
most  common  of  all,  is  only  a  fulsome  panegyric,  pandering  to 
the  inordinate  vanity  of  a  certain  political  party  once  in  the 
ascendant,  and  bidding  for  the  author's  personal  promotion  to 
lucrative  office.  Who  can  say  that  these  works  will  maintain  their 
present  place  for  any  length  of  time  ?  History  with  us,  then,  still 
presents  an  open  field  ;  and  althouj;h  the  republics  and  empires 
now  in  existence  on  this  continent  do  not  offer  a  grateful  theme 
for  historical  compositions,  as  they  have  not  yet  passed  through 
all  the  phases  which  must  ever  constitute  the  elements  of  every 
history,  there  are  epochs  already  completed  which  await  the 
labors  of  historians.  Ws  allude,  among  other  subjects,  to  a 
history  of  the  rise,  decline  and  fall  of  the  Spanish  Empire  in  the 
New  World. 

The  first  requisite  in  the  preparation  of  works  of  this  character 
consists  of  a  bibliography,  which  is  to  the  historian  what  a  chart 
is  to  the  mariner'".  The  question  then  naturally  recurs.  What 
books  should  enter  into  this  bibliography  ?  It  would  seem,  at 
the  first  glance,  that  the  lists  should  be  confined  to  works 
relating  exclusively  to  America,  '^ut  such  a  limitation  would 
compel  us  to  thrust  out  of  the  repertory  many  works  which 
are  of  paramount  importance  to  the  American  historian.  For 
instance,  in  the  correspondence  of  Peter  Martyr''"*,  there  are 
eight  hundred  and  sixteen  letters,  but  we  can  find  only  thirty 
which  relate  to  the  New  World  j  the  Polyglot  Psalter  of  Gius- 
tiniani''^  is  a  huge  folio  containing  in  all  no  more  than  four 


"•  "  Post  bibliothecarios  scriptores  veni-  grinaturo.     Morhoff,   Polyhhtor,  Lib.    i, 

unt  catalogorum  scriptores,  quorum  accu-  cap.  xvir,  Vol.  i,  p.  196  of  Fabricius' edit, 
ratior  notitia  ita   neccssaria  est  polyliistori,  "*  No.  160. 

ut  mapp;irum  geographicarum  cogiiitio  pere-  '"  No.  88  hit. 


M 


0. 


Introductio  i. 


xh 


columns  which  historians  of  the  New  World  need  to  con- 
sult ;  nearly  one  half  of  the  celebrated  collection  of  Fracanzio  da 
Montalboddo"''',  with  its  numerous  train  of  editions'"  and  trans- 
lations''^  is  devoted  to  Africa  and  Asia ;  only  one  volume  in 
the  Raccolta  of  Rnmusio  refers  exclusively  to  America.  Yet 
every  one  of  these  works  (and  there  are  many  more  of  the  same 
kind)  is  indispensable  to  the  student  of  American  history.  On 
the  other  hand,  to  admit  every  book  which  contains  a  passage 
or  chapter  concerning  the  subject  before  us,  especially  among 
those  published  within  the  last  three  centuries,  would  compel 
the  bibliographer  to  insert  the  titles  of  more  than  fifty  thousand 
volumes.  Yet,  the  wants  and  duties  of  the  historian  are  such 
that  he  cannot  neglect  to  consult  every  source  of  information, 
however  apparently  insignificant.  The  early  history  of  any 
country,  the  "  origins,"  as  French  writers  would  say,  generally 
present  but  scanty  materials,  scattered  in  the  works  not  only  of 
annalists  and  historians,  but  of  orators,  poets  and  commentators  ; 
and  although  the  discovery  of  this  continent  is  comparatively  a 
modern  event,  we  often  find  in  mere  glosses  and  incidental 
notices  which  are  buried  in  bulky  chronicles  and  miscellaneous 
collections,  valuable  details  which  have  been  omitted  in  the 
compositions  of  contemporaneous  historians.  But  as  there  must 
be  a  limit  to  detailed  bibliographies,  we  are  inclined  to  confine 
such  a  particular  list  to  the  books  published  during  the  century 
which  followed  the  first  voyage  of  Columbus — excluding  all 
"  inferential"  works. 

We  apply  the  term  "inferential"  to  such  volumes,  for  instance, 
as  are  labeled  "Alyaco."  This  name  designates  the  treatise  De 
Imagine  Mundi^  written  in  1410  by  Cardinal  Pierre  D'Ailly.  It 
is  evident  that  a  work  which  was  printed  in  1490'"  cannot 
contain  anything  relating  directly  to  America  ;  and  if  such  a 
prominent   place   is   given  to    the   book,  it  is  simply  because 


'"  No.  48. 

'"  Nos.  55,  70,  90,  94,  109. 


.""Nos.  57,58,83.84,86,  III. 
"•  infra,  p.  5,  note  61. 


xlvi 


Introduction. 


Christopher  Columhus  cites  it  frequently,  and  probably  derived 
from  its  numerous  references  to  the  old  authors  the  notion  of 
the  existence,  not  of  this  continent,  for  Columbus,  like  Ves- 
puccius,  died  in  the  belief  that  he  had  only  discovered  the 
Western  coast  of  Japan'*',  but  of  a  direct  passage  to  the  West. 
The  treatises  of  D'Ailly,  however,  are  not  the  only  works  which 
he  repeatedly  consulted,  cited  and  annotated.  It  is  known, 
at  present,  that  the  frequent  references  to  Aristotle,  Seneca, 
Strabo,  &c.,  with  which  the  third  letter  of  Columbus''*'  is 
studded,  were  communicated  to  the  Admiral  by  Father  Gor- 
ricio'**;  but  we  have  published  in  another  work'*',  photographic 
copies  of  annotations  in  the  hand  of  Christopher  Columbus, 
written  on  the  margin  of  the  works  of  ^neus  Sylvius'**  and  of 
Marco  Polo'*'.  If  we  insert  the  Imago  Mundi^  there  is  no 
reason  why  we  should  omit  //  Milione.  We  know  of  an  Amer- 
ican library  which,  on  the  recommendation  of  Rich'*'^',  secured 
Zachary  Lilio's   Orbis  brev'tarum^*'^ ^  simply  because  it  "  showed 


'* '  De  Launoi,  Regii  Navarrtt  Gym- 
nasii  Parisiensis  Historia ;  Paris,  1677,  4(0, 
Vol.  II,  p.  478. 

'*'  The  epistle  of  Columbus  describing 
his  third  voyage*  contains  a  passage  cover- 
ing nearly  two  pages,  literally  translated 
from  the  Imago  Mundi,^  itself,  plagiarized 
from  the  Opui  Majus  of  Rogeb  Bacon. 
See  Humboldt,  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  i, 
p.  65,  sq.,  and  Hislorie  del  Fernando  Co- 
lombo f  Venice,  1571,  8vo,  cap.  vii,  viii, 
IX,  pp.  • 

i4«  (I  5g  conserva  en  la  Biblioteca  Colom- 
bina  un  codice  autografo  de  D.  Cristobal 
Colom  ;  contiene  su  correspondencia  con  el 
Padre  Gorricio,  monge  cartujo  en  cl  mo- 
nasterio  de  Sti  Maria  de  las  Cuevas  de  Se- 
villa,  una  multidud  de  textos  del  antiguo 


*  Navarrcte.  roZ/ajon,  Vol.  i.  pp.  3/10-261. 

t  Cap.  8,  tbl,  I]  in  signat.  b.  The  CtLmhina 
copy  of  (he  Imjgo  Mundi  contains,  as  Humboldt 
justly  supposed,  the  treatises  by  Gcrson,  which  arc 
usually  added  to  what  we  call,  on  the  authority  of 
Maittaire  (Wnnd/.  Typcgr.^  Vol.  iv,  p.  81,  No.  44, 
and  of  Panzer  {Annal.  Tjifogr.,  Vol.  ix,  p.  146, 
No.  109)  the  Louvain  edition,  which  accounts  for 
Columbus*  frequent  references  to  the  works  of  the 
Chancellor  of  tne  University  of  Paris. 


y  nuevo  Testamento  relativos  al  descubri- 
miento  del  nuevo  mundo  y  reconquista  de 
la  Tierra  Santa,  ademas  varias  autoridades 
de  Santos  Padres,  seniencias  de  filoiofos  iohre 
el  mismo  munto  y  los  celebres  versos  de  la 
tragedia  Medea  de  Seneca  lenient  annis, 
Scz." — Letter  from  Seflor  Lemanrez,  the 
librarian  of  the  Colombina,  kindly  com- 
municated by  the  Uuke  De  Montpensier. 

'"  Notes  on  Columbus,  New  York,  1866, 
folio,  p.  215,  sq. 

'**  Wsloria  rerum  ubique  gestarum,  cum 
locorum  deuriptione  nonjinita.  Asia  minor 
incipit  i   Venice,  1487,  folio. 

"'  Judging  from  the  Latin  title  in  Seftor 
Lemai.Jez'  letter,  the  Marco  Polo  used  by 
Columbus  was  the  edition  supposed  to  have 
been  printed  at  Antwerp  towards  the  year 
1484,  by  Gerard  de  Leew,  which  is  de- 
scribed in  the  Libri  Catalogue  for  1859 
(No.  1562)  as  follows:  Marci  Pauli  de 
•veneciis  Liber  de  consueludinibus  et  condi- 
cionibus  orientalium  regionum.  Small  4to, 
I.  /.  a.  a. 

'"  Supplement,  p.  I,  2d  item. 

'*'  Florence  "  Anno  Salutis  M.cccc- 
Lxxxxiii.  Nonis  luniis," 


Introduction. 


xlvii 


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'» 


■%: 


the   condition    of  geographical    knowledge   immediately    before 
the  first  voyage  of  Columbus."    But  Columbus's  original  observa- 
tion of  the  declination  of  the  compass-4«,  and  his  application  of 
this  imoortant  fact  to  find  the  longitude  of  the  vessel'49,  have 
produced  almost  as  great  a  change  in  the  science  of  magnetics 
and  the  art  of  navigation,  as  his  discovery  of  the  New  World  in 
geography.      Must  we,  therefore,  add  to  our  list  the  early  works 
quoted  m  the  curious  dissertation  of  Trombelli  de  Acus  nautica 
.nventore^sop     n„   American   collection   is   considered   complete 
unless  It  contains  all  the  editions  of  Ulrich  von  Hutten's  quaint 
treat.se   De  guaiaci  medkina  et  morbo  galllco.      Some  collectors 
place  the  book  in  their  library  because  they  are  of  opinion  that 
It  contains  proofs  that  the  Morbus  gallicus,  so  called,  came  ori- 
ginally from  America.      We  only  find  in  that  too  highly  prized 
and  priced  volume  that  the  author  of  the  work,  who  was  born  in 
I4«8,  inherited    the   disease  from   his   father'^'.      Other   biblio 
philes  purchase  the  volume  for  the  reason  that  it  describes  for 
the  first  time  a  medicament  of  American  origin ;  but  this  is 
equally   true  of  quinine,   sarsaparilla,  and   a   number  of  other 
medicinal  plants,  which  would  entitle  all  the  early  dispensatories 
from  Le  Myrouel  des  appothkaires  pharmacopoles  downward    to  a 
prominent  place  in  our  bibliography.     Several  enthusiastic  bib- 
I'ophiles  go  even  so  far  as  to  say  that  the  works  which  contain 
an  early  mention  of  any   substance  essentially  American,  such 
for  instance   as  cotton,  cocoa,  as  well  as  guiacum  wood-not  to 
Ta/  .r    ^"f  ".^°^"  ^"'^  potatoes-should  be  represented  in  a 

for  King  James    Covnterblaste  to  Tobacco,  and  for  the  treatise  in 
which   Leon  Pmelo^giutesjor^^^      ,he  momentous 

'"On   the   13th  of  September,    1402  "»' ,n.H   A,    n        '■      '■ 

durmg    h,s   hrst   transatlantic   voyage    c/  ,,i,u,.,      '''  J"""";"'''    iainliarum  In- 

Columbus's    log   book,    abridged  by' £  ZT    T'  ^""'""'''   "'"'»"«-''.•    Bo- 

p.  9,  If.  '         •    >  P-  33  3- 

'"  Humboldt,    Ex^men   Critiaue    Vol  hcl,hL''"w  ^"f'"""'  (^/"c-om,  tha, 

«',P-38-  7«"    vol.  '»'"/"</>*.  Fr„.>s /.„,,„     London,  ,,,6. 

ibmo,  pp.  /     ,d  6.  '^  ' 


^p 


xlviii 


Introduction. 


i 


question  whether  Catholic  priests  can  eat  chocolate  on  a  Friday, 
and  yet  save  their  souls  from  perdition'^*. 

As  a  compensation  for  excluding  these  works,  we  insert  all 
the  editions  of  the  Latin  and  Italian  translations  of  Ptolemy's 
Geography.  A  map  is  frequently  of  more  importance  to  ascer- 
tain the  extent  of  a  maritime  voyage  or  discovery,  than  the  most 
perfect  description  ;  and  although  we  are  convinced  that  all  the 
charts  of  the  New  World,  from  Ruysch's'"  to  Mattiolo's''-*,  can 
be  traced  to  one  or  two  prototypes  only,  they  present  so  inter- 
esting a  survey  of  the  progress  of  cartography  and  of  geographical 
knowledge  during  the  first  half  of  th?  fifteenth  century,  that  we 
have  taken  pains  to  describe  all  the  editions  which  contain  such 
maps  and  the  chapter  "  Extra  Ptokmeum^''  which,  as  the  reader 
is  doubtless  aware,  became  the  nucleus  around  which  were 
gathered  the  results  of  all  subsequent  investigations  of  a  geo- 
graphical  character'". 

In  arranging  or  classifying  these  works,  the  only  object  which 
must  be  kept  in  view,  is  the  convenience  of  the  inquirer  -,  unfor- 
tunately, we  know  of  no  classification  or  arrangement  which  is 
entirely  satisfactory.  The  alphabetical  method  brings  in  juxta- 
position the  most  hetefogeneous  works.  The  classification  ac- 
cording to  subjects  is  more  or  less  arbitrary,  while  it  compels 
the  bibliographer  to  insert  the  same  book  in  five  or  six  difFefent 
classes,  as  a  great  many  of  the  early  works  relating  to  America 
treat  of  a  variety  of  subjects.  The  disposition  according  to  the 
order  of  time  presents  certain  advantages,  but  it  is  also  defective, 
as  a  work  written,  for  instance,  in  1493,  ''^^  ^^  Spanish  letter  of 
Columbus  (No.  7),  must  be  placed  under  the  year  1865,  when 
it  was  first  published  ;  while  if  we  only  adopt  the  date  of  its 
composition,  bibliographically  speaking,  the  arrangement  is  en- 
tirely useless.     On  the  other  hand,  each  of  these  modes  has  its 


"•  Sfic^on  moral  si  el  chocolate  que- 
branla  el ayuno  ecleiiailico  i  Madrid,  1636, 
4tu. 


'"  No.  56.     (In  the  Ptolemy  of  1508.) 
'"  No.  285. 

l»6     - 


See  infra,  p.  107,  jy. 


Introduction. 


xlix 


merits,  and,  nothwithstanding  the  perplexity  which  arises  from  a 
multiplicity  of  indices,  we  think  that  these  three  systems  might 
be  adapted  to  a  comprehensive  bibliography,  in  this  wise  :  The 
works  arranged  chronologically  according  to  the  order  of  their 
publication ;  then  two  separate  indices,  one  of  names  exclusively ; 
the  other,  a  classified  index,  setting  forth  under  special  heads  all 
the  subjects  mentioned,  for  example,  in  the  Epitome  of  Leon 
Pinelo. 

The  works  should  be  described  with  extreme  minuteness  and 
accuracy.  The  title  of  a  book  frequently  conveys  the  "  pre- 
liminary" information  required  ;  but  if  the  title  is  truncated  in 
the  description  or  imperfectly  abridged,  it  is  apt  to  become  a 
vehicle  of  error.  It  is  also  necessary  to  give  the  colophon,  as  it 
shows  when  the  book  was  really  published  or  completed,  while, 
at  times,  we  can  find  in  no  other  part  of  the  volume  what  is 
called  the  imprint'^. 

There  are  many  more  details  of  a  technical  character  with 
which  bibliographers  are  expected  to  be  conversant ;  and  as  these 
apply  to  all  bibliographies  in  general,  we  must  refer  the  reader 
to  the  works  which  treat  specially  of  such  matters'",  and  to  the 
catalogues  which  exhibit  their  application'*^  in  a  much  higher 


1508.) 


■   'J.  ,' 

'■,'i 


■  '■*■■ 


'V  When  the  curious  plaquette  Cofia 
der  Netvtn  Zeytung  ausi  Pretillg  Landt 
(No.  99)  was  first  made  known,  Hum- 
boldt expressed  the  opinion'^  that  it  must 
have  been  printed  between  1525  and  1540. 
M.  de  Varnhagen,f  on  the  other  hand, 
was  inclined  to  ascribe  to  the  book  a  date 
circa  1508.  It  was  a  matter  of  some  con- 
sequence to  ascertain  the  exact  time  when 
it  had  been  published,  as  Humboldt  thought 
that  it  contained  a  description  of  a  voyage 
to  the  Straits  of  Magellan,  undertaken  by 
Christopher  de  Haro.  But  we  describe  an- 
other edition  (No.  100),  which,  but  for  the 
colophon,  would  appear  in  a  catalogue  simply 
as  a  duplicate  of  the  first.  Now,  this  colo- 
phon shows  that  the  plaquette  was  printed 


•  Kxamin  Critiqui^  Vol.  Y,  p.  149. 
f  Uiitoria  dt  Brascit,  — . 


at  Augsburg  by  Erhard  Oeglin,  who  ceased 
to  print  after  1516;  and,  therefore,  if 
Humboldt's  supposition  is  correct,  Chris- 
topher de  Haro  visited  the  Straits  three 
years  at  least  before  Magellan. 

'"  In  Brunet,  Manuel,  Table  mithod- 
ijue,  Nos.  31122-31365;  and  the  most 
valuable  treatise  of  Constantin,  Biblio- 
thiconomie }  Paris,  1841,  iSmo. 

'"  Franck,  Catalogus  bibliotheca  Buna- 
vianai  Lipsia,  1750-1756,  6  vols.,  4to  j 
AuDirFREDi,  Catalogui  hiitorico-criticus  ro- 
manorum  editionum  sacuU  Xf^i  Roma, 
'7^31  4'")  Rei'ss,  Repertorium  commenta- 
tionum  a  societatibus  litterariis  edilarum  ; 
Gottinga,  1801-1821,  16  vols.,  4to ;  and 
for  the  fountain-head  of  the  best  modern 
classifications,  Garnier,  Syslema  biblio- 
thectt  collegii  parisiensis  Soc.  Jeiu ;  Paris, 
1678,  4to. 


1 


Introduction. 


degree  than  any  example  we  could  cite,  or  description  which  it  is 
in  our  power  to  give. 

Whatever  may  be  the  natural  impartiality  of  an  author's  mind, 
his  works  must  always  bear  the  impress  of  the  circumstances 
which  surround  him,  and  of  his  times.  Tt  Is  necessary,  there- 
fore, to  study  his  personal  history  as  well  ,  that  of  his  epoch, 
and  of  the  social  center  in  which  he  lived,  that  we  may  form  a 
correct  estimate  of  the  credence  to  which  he  is  entitled.  In 
fact,  we  know  of  no  better  means  to  ascertain  to  what  extent 
his  views  may  have  been  modified  by  such  external  influences  i 
and  no  historian  will  fail  to  appreciate  the  facilities  offered  him 
by  the  bibliographer  who  groups  around  each  title  references  to 
all  the  works  in  which  information  in  regard  to  these  illustrative 
subjects  may  be  found.  How  thankful  have  we  not  often  felt  for 
the  Scriptores  vitarum  eruditorum  partlculares  in  the  celebrated 
Bunau  catalogue  !  Nor  should  the  bibliographer  limit  this  class 
of  researches  to  the  life  of  the  author  of  each  work  which 
comes  under  his  notice.  He  must  also  contribute  towards  elu- 
cidating the  history  of  the  principal  characters  who  figure  in  the 
books,  by  adding  such  authorities  as  may  have  escaped  the  notice 
of  the  writer  himself,  or  as  may  have  come  to  light  subsequently 
to  the  publication  of  his  work. 

The  requisites  which  we  have  already  mentioned  are  much 
more  onerous  and  difficult  to  fulfill  than  the  majority  of  readers 
are  inclined  to  believe'" ;  yet,  they  by  no  means  constitute  the 
whole  task  which  devolves  upon  the  bibliographer.  Every 
special  bibliography  demands  special  requisites,  which  must  be 
adequate  to  its  particular  object.  Our  own  province  is  only  to 
state  those  which  pertain  to  a  bibliography  of  works  relating  to 


'"  See  in  the  Edinburgh  Review  for 
October,  1850,  a  curious  account  of  the 
mishaps  experienced  during  the  discus- 
lions,  of  tlie  British  Museum  Commis- 
sion, by  a  well-l<nown  English  scholar  and 
antiquary,  who  had  attempted  to  show 
how   the   Museum    catalogue    ihoutd    be 


made.  When  the  twenty-five  titles,  illus- 
trative of  his  bibliographical  attainments, 
were  put  into  the  hands  of  a  competent 
librarian  for  examination,  it  was  discov- 
ered that  "they  contained  almost  every 
possible  error  which  can  be  committed  in 
cataloguing  books." 


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the 


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nments, 

ipetent 

discov- 

every 

litted  in 


America.  Now,  a  Bibliotheca  Americana  is  essentially  geograph- 
ical and  historical,  and  whoever  would  compose  it  must,  there- 
fore, assume  to  the  full  extent  of  its  original  compass  the 
obligations  which  pertain  to  the  rudy  of  geography  and  history. 
These  consist  in  a  critical  survey  of  certain  documents,  and  in 
an  effort  to  connect  certain  data  in  view  of  an  ultimate  conclu- 
sion. The  main  difference  between  history  and  bibliography,  in 
this  respect,  is  that  the  latter  is  limited  to  printed  documents, 
whilst  the  data  it  furnishes  refer  chiefly  to  their  external  charac- 
teristics. But  this  does  not  imply  that  the  labors  of  the  bibliog- 
rapher must  be  confined  to  a  correct  statement  of  the  title  and 
size  of  a  book,  or  to  tables  exhibiting  the  chronology  of  its 
various  editions  and  translations.  We  think  that  after  these 
requisites  have  been  fulfilled,  the  bibliographer  must  show 
wherein  the  texts  of  these  editions  present  differences,  and  trace 
to  their  original  sources  the  changes  introduced.  Years  some- 
times elapse  between  successive  editions  of  the  same  work. 
Meanwhile,  new  documents  are  published,  exhibiting  a  discovery 
made  or  a  progress  accomplished.  By  the  light  of  these  new 
developments,  the  author,  in  a  later  edition,  modifies  the  opinions 
or  corrects  the  errors  set  forth  at  a  time  when  he  possessed  no 
better  means  to  ascertain  the  truth  of  his  statements.  We  hold 
that  it  is  the  duty  of  bibliographers  not  only,  as  it  were,  to  label 
all  such  alterations,  but  to  mark  the  sources  from  which  the 
motive  which  prompted  the  author  in  each  instance  was  derived. 
Withal,  we  must  not  be  understood  to  advocate  the  insertion  of 
elaborate  essays  in  connection  with  every  book  described  or  cited 
in  any  bibliography  whatsoever.  This  course  would  be  tanta- 
mount to  blending  Bibliography  and  Literary  History  together. 
We  only  advocate  the  addition  of  succinct  indications  of  a  most 
trustworthy  and  suggestive  character,  paving  the  way  for  ulterior 
researches,  which  the  bibliographer  may  be  supposed  to  have 
instituted  himself,  but  of  which  he  only  gives  what  is  called  in 
common  parlance  "the  chapter  and  verse."     In  fine,  the  bibliog- 


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Introduction. 


rapher's  whole  duty  will  be  done,  as  we  conceive  it,  only  when 
he  has  presented  the  synthetic  historian  with  the  means  of  con- 
trolling, comparing  and  weighing  the  authorities  which  he  needs 
to  consult,  as  well  as  with  the  fullest  possible  list  of  those 
authorities.  Within  certain  limits,  it  will  be  seen,  therefore, 
that  we  assign  to  bibliographers  a  relation  to  the  historian  not 
unlike  that  which  exists  at  the  British  bar  between  the  attorney 
who  prepares  the  brief  and  the  barrister  who  pleads  the  case. 
Each  has  a  most  serious  and  important  task  to  perform  ;  nor 
will  the  honest  historian  hesitate  to  admit  that  if  the  results  of  his 
own  labor  are  necessarily  more  splendid  than  the  modest  efforts 
of  the  student  who  precedes  him  and  prepares  his  way,  the  duties 
of  the  bibliographer  may  probably  enlist  scientific  faculties  of  a 
high  order,  and  strenuous  exertions  which,  although  left  often 
unrewarded,  are  deserving  of  praise  and  recompense. 


We  are  well  aware  that  the  present  work  by  no  means 
presents  a  perfect  illustration  of  the  bibliographical  principles 
which  we  have  endeavored  to  set  forth.  But  we  cannot  honestly 
take  upon  ourselves  the  whole  responsibility  of  this  untoward  fact. 
In  the  preparation  of  such  an  elaborate  bibliography,  the  great  con- 
dition precedent  is  a  free,  untrammeled,  and  repeated  access  to 
the  books  which  the  bibliographer  intends  to  describe.  He  should 
be  at  liberty  to  examine  them,  not  one  by  one,  but  all  together, 
frequently,  and  with  a  large  collection  of  works  of  reference 
at  his  elbow.  These  facilities  it  has  been  denied  to  us  to  com- 
mand. We  have,  indeed,  enjoyed  the  freedom  of  one  admirable 
library,  but  this  did  not  contain  all  the  books  needed  to  establish 
necessary  comparisons.  Other  collections,  in  which  these  sup- 
plementary books  could  be  found,  were  located,  some  of  them  in 
distant  cities,  whilst  others,  existing  within  a  stone's  throw  of 
our  study,  belonged  to  bibliophiles  who  hesitated  to  extend  to  us 
the  facilities  required  by  the  nature  of  our  task,  although  they 


''1 


Introduction. 


liii 


^i 


often  enabled  us  to  examine  a  numbe/of  valuable  books,  which 
had  been  actually  removed  from  the  shelves  for  our  special 
inspection.  But  whilst  this  was  a  great  advantage,  meriting 
acknowledgment,  every  reader  at  all  familiar  with  bibliograph- 
ical researches  knows  full  well  that  unless  the  inquirer  is  gifted 
with  the  erudition  of  a  Mabillon  and  the  memory  of  a  Mezzo- 
fanti,  it  is  impossible  for  him  to  commence  his  investigations 
with  a  competent  knowledge  of  all  the  works  which  are  to  come 
within  the  range  of  his  researches.  "  Book  openeth  book," 
says  Dibdin;  and  this  wise  saying  is  still  more  true  of  biblio- 
graphical and  historical  inquiries  than  of  any  other  class  of 
investigations,  as  an  indefinite  number  of  useful  suggestions  is 
the  first  result  of  untrammeled  access  to  the  alcoves  of  every 
opulent  library.  Nor  is  this  all.  However  careful  in  his  collations 
a  conscientious  bibliographer  may  be ;  however  numerous  and 
detailed  may  be  the  memoranda  which  he  never  fails  to  make, 
he  is  nevertheless  sure  to  be  beset  with  excruciating  doubts 
when  he  sits  down  to  achieve  his  task  at  a  distance  from  the 
books  which  he  is  to  describe  with  no  other  help  than  his 
notes  and  memory.  These  notes  are  taken  too  often  in  a  hasty 
manner,  for  fear  of  exhausting  the  patience  of  the  unconfiding 
proprietor,  who  frequently  considers  and  treats  the  student  as  a 
purloiner  in  disguise,  an  intruder  or  a  parasite.  Hurrying  back 
to  his  solitary  cell,  the  painstaking  bibliographer  peruses  the  notes 
so  onerously  obtained.  As  he  dwells  upon  his  memoranda  at  leis- 
ure, innumerable  new  ideas  and  suggestions  arise  out  of  them  ; 
but  tltese  new  ideaa  and  suggestions  remain  sterile  because  they 
need  to  be  controlled  and  fructified  by  fresh  references  to  works 
examined  for  a  different  purpose,  and  long  before  the  germination 
of  these  tardy  but  welcome  notions.  So  far  as  we,  ourselves, 
are  concerned,  we  feel  constrained  to  state  that  could  we  have 
spent  no  mo.e  than  four  days  in  the  undisturbed  examination  of 
certain  libraries,  even  with  our  hands  manacled,  it  would  have 
saved  us  fully  six  months  of  most  arduous  researches. 


liv 


Introduction. 


As  to  the  works  of  reference  which  we  had  to  consult,  we 
found  them  scattered  all  over  the  country,  not  a  few,  for  exam- 
ple, being  discovered  by  us  in  the  dusty  garret  of  a  dilapidated 
church,  where  we  were  so  unfortunate  as  to  pore  over  them  when 
the  thermometer  stood  below  zero.  Others,  less  accessible  still, 
we  heard  of  as  lying  snugly  coffined  in  comfortable  bookcases, 
never  to  be  disturbed  by  mortal  eye.  A  go'odly  number  were 
picked  up  and  purchased  at  book-stalls,  while  many  more  could 
be  consulted  only  at  the  price  of  journeys  to  Boston  or  Cam- 
bridge, where  librarians  dispense  to  students  a  hospitality  which 
New  York  has  yet  to  emulate.  We  enter  into  these  details, 
not  for  the  purpose  of  working  -oon  the  sympathies  of  the 
reader,  but  simply  to  explain  the  shortcomings  which  he  will 
not  fail  to  note  in  this,  our  first  and  last  attempt  in  American 
Bibliography, 


H.  H, 


New   York  University  Builpinhs, 
May  15/A,  1866. 


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FIFTF.KNTH   CF.NTURY. 

I.  coAf/T//u/.s  (c///f/.s'7Y)/w;/?)-([  iSpiftoIa  <ffl)nftofori   1493. 

iiTolom:  rui  ftafs  noftra  multfl  tirljrt:  UrllSnfulijs 

Jlutiic  fupra  (!^a»srm  nuprv  inurntisJ.  lati  qunss 
prrqui- 1|  rcntiasj  ortauo  antra  mrufr  aufpiriis  r  rve 
iuuirtiffimi,iFfrnan-||tii  ll>ifpaniavum  Urgisi  miffust 
furrat:  ati  irBagnifirHm  tinm  l%a||p1)aclrm  Saius 
Ifi:  riuHicm  frrrniffimi  Ucgis  ffcfaurariu  miffa:|| 
quam  nobiUsi  ar  Uttrratus  biv  ^IHantict  He  ^JTofro 
at)  1li)if))ano  ||  itiromatr  in  latinum  rouurrtit :  trrtio 
ftal'g  fftaii.  iiil.rrcc..rnii.||  ^IJontififatug  aUxantid 
S»cxti  anno  ^^rimo.ll" 

*^  '■  Sin.  410,  ((>/(■  iifiH'j  (lilt  loco,  tour  leaves,  thirty-tour  lines  in  a 
tull  page.     No  water-mark. 

(Hiivatc  l.lbr.  Nuw  York.       The  mil)    nther  C(i|ii(s  kn.iwn 
art'  in  tilt  UritUli  Museum  ami  Munich  Roy.il  Library.) 


*  An^Utf  t  Letter  frop'  <'hr'istci(ilicr 
Coliim  ••  Id  wliimi  iiur  ,igr  iiwctli  n.'ii  li  ; 
cuncerninj!  ttie  Islands  ot'  In.lia  hcyipi. ' 
tlir  Ganges  recently  ilisciiveieil.  In  the 
search  of  which  he  was  sent  eight 
months  ago  umler  the  auspices  and  at 
the  expense  of  the  most  invincible  King 
oftheSpains,  Ffrilinami  :  addressed  tu  the 


nolile  lord  RiJ/i/iiif/  .S'wnrf'i  .•  Trr.isurer  of 
the  same  most  serene  King;  whicl)  the 
«'//'/(•  and  learned  man  yilianJtr  ilc  Cos- 
i-  translated  from  the  Spanish  idiom 
into  Latin  :  the  third  ilay  of  the  ca- 
lends of  May  [April  25th-)  1491.  The 
Year  One  of  the  I'untificute  of  Alexan- 
der VI. 


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2  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

14.03.        Christopher  or    Pedro  [Luc.  Marineo')    Colon    [Fer- 

nan(io  Columbus'',  official  documents'),  or  Colonus  \Pet. 

Martyr*,  Geraldini'^),  or  Colom  {()vicdo'\  de  Cozco',  Stam- 
ler^),  or  Colomo  \Libros  de  Cuentos\  Mediri:i  Celi').  or 
Colombo  (Trivi^iano'',  Gryn<rus'\  Coppo  da  Isola'\  Zorzi'^, 
Dati'^jy  or  Colyns  [Sharon  'Turner'*),  or  Dawher  [Ru- 
chamer"'),  or  Cohimhus  (Giusliniani"',  Sy//acio'',  Bembo'*)  ; 
born  at  Genoa  {Giustiniani,  Peter  Martyr,  lierna/dez"', 
GaUo''",  Senarega",  Herrera^^,  Munoz'-\  Spotorno'*),  or  at 
Cucarro  [Donesmundi'^\  Napione"',  Cancellieri'-\  Conti'^^),  or 
at  Fradello  [Campi"^),  or  at  Savonna  {Sa/itterio^\  Chiabre- 
rrt",  Belloro^''),  or  atCugureo  [Eden],  or  Nervi  (Oviedo),  or 


L 


'  De  las  tiSiii  mcm'nahle!  de  Kif>iiiiii  ; 
Alcil.i,  l.il  ,   1530,  1533,  1531;. 

■'  IJi.l'.iie  tie/  Xif^nir  I),  t'ern.injo  C- 
I'.mho  ;  Venice,  1211111,  1571,  1614,  l(>72, 
i(i;()  (I'l.iiiik's  C1t.1l.  I,  167.S,  i6*i5. 

'    J/lUil      NAV.AKKKrt,      Co/eiiioll       tk       I'S 

I'iiij^es  y  ilei.u/irimientcisf  M.ulriil,  8v(i, 
iS25-3'7,  Vol.  II. 

'  O/iiis  Efisrolanim  f  Alc.il.i,  t'ol.,  1530, 
nri.j  Aln^IeIll.,  1  670  1  best  edit. )  ;  DfijJes, 
SeviU.i,  Ui\.,  i;il,  Alc.il.i,  t'ol.,  I  516,  and 
I  530;  li.isle,  1533,  I'.iiis,  Sk>,  15S7  (H.ik- 
luyt's,  best  edition). 

•"^  iti'ie>  lit  turn  tiii  rei^ionei  sn/i  e^uin^er.; 
Ropic,  iimo,  1631. 

"  Histcria  Geneial  de  las  I'idias  f  Se- 
lill.i,  tol.,  155^,  S.iljiii.inca,  I  ^47,  ValU- 
dolid,  I  557;  Madrid,  4  voU.,  t'ol.,  1S51-55, 
complete  edit. 

'  Latin  translat.  ot  Columbus' leitcr,  see 
in/, a,  Nos.  I,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6. 

"  Ufa/ogus;  Augsburg,  t'ol.,  I  50S;  Ven- 
ice, J.  a. 

"  Letter,  afad  MoutLi.i,  I.eiieia  ra'is- 
sima  {  Batsano,  8vo,  1810,  and  Ofeietfe, 
Venice,  3  vols.,  8vo,  1820. 

'"  Noviis  Orhisf  Basle,  t'ol.,  I  532,  I'.iri:;, 
153Z,  Basle,  1537,  and  1555  (l>est),  Rot- 
1(1  dam,  8\o,  1 61 6. 

"   foriolano ;   Venice,  sm.  4to,  1528. 

'■'  Paesi  nuuameiue  rerro:iarif  Vii en/.a, 
4t(>,  1507,  Milan,  1508,  1 51 2,  Ijiy. 
Venice,  1 517,  I  521. 

"  La  leiier.i  delle  hole  f  Florence,  41  1, 
1493,   two  editions. 

'*  History  of  Enj^/jiid  in  the  Middle 
/l^esi  Lond.,  4to,  1814-13. 


''  Ncwe  unhekiinihe  litndie  ;  Nuremberg, 
t'ol.,  1508. 

'"  Vs,iireri:im;  Genoa,  t'.Ji.,  I  516 

"  Ve  insulis  meridiani  at /ue  indici  mati 
nupei  inventis ;  I'avia,  4to,  s.  a. 

'■  Historic  l'enet,r  ;  Venice  and  Paris, 
fol.,  1551. 

'"  Historia  de  los    Reyes  Cith.   I).   Fei 
nandn  y  l)a.  Isabel ;  Granada,  1  vols.,  4to, 
1856. 

'■"'  apudMvuAToK},  Rerun  Italic.  Hiti/it.; 
Vol.  xxiii. 

■■"  Idem,  Vol.  XXIV. 

'"  Historia  (leneral  de  los  llechos  de  Ins 
Castellands  i  Madrid,  t'ol.,  1601-15,  ■•"'' 
1728-30;  Antwerp,  1728  (  b'd  edition). 

"  Historia  del  Niiei'o  Xltindo  ,•  Madrid, 
4to,  1798  (MS.  ot"2d  Vol.  in  Private  Libr., 
New  York). 

'•"  Delia  ^ri-^.  e  patria  di  C.  Colomho ; 
Genoa,  8vii,  l8ly,  and  O'diee  diplomaliic 
C'd'  nJio-yiKeriiano  ;  Genoa,  4to,  1823. 

'^  Historia  Ecclesiaslica  di  Mantotta  ; 
Mant  iva,  4t.),  161  3-16. 

'■'"  Delia  /.atria  di  C.  Colombo  f  Florence, 
8vo,  1808,  and  Del  Prim'.  Scopritore ;  Flo- 
renie,  8vo,  1801;. 

'■"  Disserrazioni  episti/lari  hihlio^rafiche 
supra  C   Colomho  i  Rome,  8vo,  i8oy. 

""  Ntii.  storicbe  della  littd  di  C.  di 
M'^nferrato ;  Casali,  8vo,  1838-41. 

''■'  Hiii-.ria  E<ilesi.ut.  di  Piarenzaf  I'ia- 
cen/.i,  t'cd.,  1651-72. 

'"'  Mnn  ilalioncs  lulij  Salinerij  Sauonensis 
ad  Cornelium   Taeitum  ;  (ienoa,  410,  I  601. 

"  Cam'jn-liniilif  Venice,8vo,  1730-31. 

'''  iipud    C'lrrei/'tmlanie    ylslrnn.   Giogr,, 


1 


Fliircncc, 
ijre  \  Klo- 


,.-dj  Pi.i- 

ifiuonfniis 
11,   lf)02. 

Giogr., 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  3 

at  Cogoletto  {Gambara'\  Isnardi'*),  Oneglia,  Chiavara,  I493. 
Finale,  Bugiasco,  Cossena,  ^uinto,  Albisola,  or  in  =-=—=9, 
England  (Mol/oy*^),  or  simply  in  some  unknown  village 
near  Genoa  {Las  Casas^'',  Barros"),  in  1435-6  {BernaldeZy 
Napione,  Navarrete,  Humboldt^*,  Luigi  Colombo^''),  or  in 
1 44 1  {Char lev oix*°),  or  in  1445  {C/adera*',  Bossi*'-),  or  in 
14.^6  {Mufjoz),  or  in  1447  {Robertson*\  Spoiorno)  of  hum- 
ble parentage,  to  say  the  least :  "  vilibus  orbus  parenti- 
bus"  {Giusliniani),  "da  ignobili  Parenti"  {Salinerio^°). 
Died  at  Valladolid,  May  20th,  15c  6,  notwithstanding 
Grynaeus'  Novits  Orbis,  which,  as  late  as  1532,  mentions 
him  as  still  living. 

After  a  very  short  time  spent  at  the  University  of 
Pavia  {Ferd.  Co/umbus,  Bossi),  Christopher  Columbus,  like 
his  father  and  brothers  {Gal/o,  Senarega,  Casoni**,  Sati- 
nerio^°,  J//egretli'-°),  followed  the  occupation  of  wool- 
carder;  and  afterwards  {Las  Casas,  Bernaldez)^  when  still 
in  Genoa,  became  a  bookseller.  The  time  when  he  first 
went  to  sea  is  not  known.  Repaired  to  Lisbon,  after 
a  shipwreck'  (  ? ),  in  1470,  and  joined  his  brother  Bar- 
tholomew, who  made  his  living  in  that  city  by  drawing 
and  selling  maps  or  nautical  pictures  {Ga//o,  Giusliniani). 
Was  again  in  Italy,  March  20th,  1472  {Bianc/ii*''),  and, 
probably  in  1473,  '"  ^^*^  employ  of  King  Rene  of  Pro- 
vence. Married  in  Lisbon  {Barros),  or  perhaps  at  Calvi, 
in  Corsica^'',   Felippa  Muniz  Perestrello,  the  daughter 


Jtc,  i/u  Biir'tii  Je  Z.!i/i;  Genoa,  Hvo,  i8i6, 
Viil.  XIV ;  .iti  I  ^1/ prndice,  Giiiia,  Svu, 
1831;;  iquiitus  I'uLi.EKii,  F.f'iclit'ifma ;  Turin, 
41(1,  if)y6. 

'"  De  Naiif^iii.  C  CJum''i;  Ruiiu-,  Svo, 
i5S5i  4t..,  16X3. 

"•  i)h>eria;-ioi:,-  i  Piiu-ml.',  Xvn,  1S3S. 

^'^  l)e  'Jure  Miniiiini,;  L.m.lun,  Hvn ; 
Iriim  1676  to  lyd'j,  nine  cliii.iM^. 

'■*  ".le  .ilgun  !iii;.ii-  ilc  l.i  Priviniia  dc 
Cicn  >va," — Uislmid  (!,'ne',i/  ,/,•  /us  In, lias, 
Ch.ipt.  II  ;  MS.,  Private  Library,  N.  Y. 

"  DfiiiMii  Jj  Alia;  LiblxpM,  3  vols.,  tol., 
IS51  53  63;  162S,  an  i  177S  SX,  14 vols., 
Xvo  (best). 

'"  Examen  Ciiti/uci  I'aris,  3  vols.,Xvii, 
1S36-9,     (Tile  edit,  ot'  that   most  cxtel- 


leiit  W'lik,  3  vols.,  n.  d  ,  is  only  this, 
w  t'l  'Ut  the  si'itions  i.f'La  Cosa'i  map.) 

'''  I'tioia  t  lii,'r,  ,lci  Cr.inde  Ammira^'- 
lii.;  11  me,  Sv.',  1853. 

*"  Hiitoirf  ,/i- 1 Isie  K>f>j.;iio/fi  I'.iri,-,  41.1, 
1730;  I2mi>,  .Am  terd.,  1733. 

^'   /nrfsl:,^,iii'ji:!i  iiiii6iii,isf  M.ili  I  I,  410, 

"  I'lia  Ji  CJ-inioi  Milan,  8v..,  181X. 

"  U:slory  ■/  /imcrim  ;  London,  410, 
I7SS 

"  yl:nali  J:  O'eiiofii,  Ml  iemio  sedi- 
ifiini',;   (ieniia,  tol.,  1708. 

*"  OssrrTj-.ii.ni  m!  dim.!,  At.,  delhi  l.i- 
yu'ia  {.If. 1 1  Coditt). 

*'  D'tumentj  in  the  Revue  de  Pii'h, 
Aujj.,  1841,  vol.  XXXII. 


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4  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1493.  of  the  discoverer  {Ferd.  Columbus),  or  Governoi*  {Ca  da 
— SS--9—  Mosto^'')  of  the  island  of  Porto-Santo,  and  sister  to  the 
wife  of  Pedro  Correa,  an  expert  navigator,  before  1474, 
the  year  in  which  his  first  son,  Diego,  was  born.  This 
Diego  is  the  boy  who  is  made  to  play  such  a  lamentable 
part  in  the  scene  at  the  La  Rabida  convent,  in  1484 
or  i486.  Made  a  voyage  to  England,  Iceland,  and 
"Thule,"  February,  1477  {^^^^^^  apud Ferd.  Columbus), 
where  he  may  have  obtained  the  confirmation  of  the 
data  furnished  him  by  Toscanelli,  June  25th,  1474, 
concerning  the  existence  of  Western  lands.  Was  on 
board  the  piratical  fleet  which,  in  1485,  attacked  the 
Venetian  galleys  off  Cape  St.  Vincent  {Rawdon  Hrown^^). 
Made  his  home  at  Porto-Santo  (a  small  island  near  the 
coast  of  Africa),  on  an  estate  belonging  to  his  wife,  and 
where  he  compared  notes  with  Correa,  and  matured  his 
plans. 

First  proposals  to  Genoa  [P.  Martyr,  Benzoni*'*,  Her- 
rera,  Ramusio''°),  or  to  Portugal  {Majfei'^',  GuIvuho'^-)^  then 
to  Venice  (Bossi,  Navarrcte),  or  to  France  {Gcraldirii, 
Monlest/uieu''^),  to  Genoa  again  (Mutloz),  to  Kngland  (6V- 
raldini),  through  his  brother  Bartholomew,  who  seems  to 
have  remained  seven  years  at  the  court  of  Heiu-y  VII, 
for  whom  he  made  a  chart,  February,  14S8  {//akluyt'''*), 
but  where  the  project  was  laughed  to  scorn  {Henzoni),  or 
delayed  only  by  accident  [Bacon''''),  or  accepted,  but  too 
late  {Pure has''''),  then  to  Portugal  {Vascuncellos''''),  from 
which  country  he   repaired   to  Spain,    1484   {Spotorno), 

"  tif'uJ  tl'inrraiium  Vnriu'allnium f  Mi-  <]ui   lui    (>ni|'i>!..iil    lis    Iiiilcs."      I.iv.    xxi, 

l.in,  hil.,  150X.  ih.ip.    XXII.      Tlic.i'     ugrcts    c.irin.ii     lu' 

*"  CilenJai  »/  Suite  I'ti/ ri ,  ,iii,l  MSS.  in  tfrmcl   timely,  foi    not    uily  l"i.iniis  1   illil 

tir  j^riliives  of  I'eni.ef  l,cin>lciii,  Svi',  |S()4.  nut  .isicml  tin-  thnnu-  ut   Kr.Mui-  until  the 

**  Hist'iia  Jtl   MonJ'i    Nuctij  ;    Vinici',  Wi  slirn  Wiirl.l  li.hl  bun  ri'ilisicvcrfil  ncji- 

8vi),  1^65,  I  S71-  ly  twiiity-twiiyr.li;-,  Imt  lie   w.is   imt   boiii 

*"  Delh    Niirii^.ir.    rt    l'i,!-yi  f    Viniic,  until  St-plcniliiT,  I4y4.      (Srr  Hksaui.t.  I 
fol.,  1603,  (ir  1613  till-  the  51I  ml.  "*   T/ie     I'l  ir:i  i/n/    /Vai'ifioli'.ns ;     Lnncl., 

*'  Hislr,i  i.iiuin  iihtii.iium- VUirtni:i-,M\o,  M.,  I  sl^y,  l^')^    1600,410,  l8uy    la. 
|i;SS,  Venice,  41..,   1  ^Sy,  .Vi .  "  llisl.ric   <f  ll:f   R.iignr  of  K.    Ilniiy 

'•'  Tr,ii,i,lui  I.isl.iin,  1^63.  r//;   l.un.lnn,  til  ,  1611. 

*'  Ksf<iii  ilfs    Lis,  "J'.ii    oiM    plu.ieur'^  ''"  l'i/i;iiKfsi  l,onA.,f«\.,  ifiii;,  I'.iit  111 

t'oi.i  deplorer  I'.iveiigleiiieiu   ilu   timsiil   ile  "   fiiL  del  Rey  'Juan  II;  M.iilrid,  411), 

Fr.in^'ois  I  qui  rebut.i  Christuplic    Coliiml),  1 639. 


Bibtiolhecu  Americana.  $ 

and  made  proposals  to  Ferdinand  and  Isabella,  1485 
{Bossi),  or  i486  {Oviedo).  Met  at  Cordova  Beatrix 
knriquez,  to  whom  he  was  marrieil  (I/ernra,  Tirai/osc/ii^^, 
Bossi,  Roselly  de  Lor^ues">),  or  with  whom  he  never  lived 
in  lawful  wedlock  {Napione,  Spotorno,  Navarrele,  Hum- 
boldt), before  August  29th,  1487  {Ortiz  de  Zuriii^a'"), 
or  August  15th,  1488  {Navarrete),  the  year  in  which  his 
youngest  son  and  future  historian  was  born.  Distin- 
guished himself  in  the  campaign  against  the  Moors, 
1489  [Ort.  de  Zuniga).  The  commission  sitting  at  Sala- 
manca rejected  his  proposals,  1491.  The  project  was 
finally  accepted  by  Spain,  April  17th,  1492.  Set  sail 
from  l*alos  with  three  caravels,  viz.:  the  "Santa-Maria" 
or  "  Gallega"  {Oviedo),  Hag-ship,  the  "  I'inta,"  \\\u\  the 
"  Nina,"  with  a  crew  of  ninety  men  {herd.  Columbus)  or 
one  hundred  and  twenty  {Martyr,  Giustiuiani),  Friday, 
August    jd,  1492,  a  half  an  hour  before  ilaylight. 

Discovered,  Friday,  October  12th,  1492,  at  2  A. 
M.,  what  he  always  believetl,  and  compelled  his  crew, 
under  penalty'"  of  having  their  tongues  cut  oft",  to 
assert  to  be  the  western  coast  of  China,  but  which  was 
only  Grand  Furk,  one  of  the  lurks  islands  {Navur- 
rctc,  Gibbs'-,  Major"),  or  Watling  Island  {MuT/oz, 
Bec/ier''*),  or  San  Salvador  Grande  { Ferrer''' ),  or  Cat 
Island  (Catesbv'^',  Humboldt).  Discovereii  (he  Island 
of  Cuba,  October  28th,  anti  Hayti,  December  5th, 
1492.  Sent  an  b'.mbassy  to  the  "Gran  Can,"  Novem- 
ber 2d.  Lost  his  flag-ship  by  shipwreck,  December 
24th.    Set  sail  on  his  way   back  to  Spain,  Wednesday, 


493' 


,  r.iii  III 

nil  ill,  4t>>, 


'■"  Stt  till  Jr'Li  leli.  /m//i(H<i;  Mil.iii,  Jivii,  t.iiiul   S.tiity,    iS46;,in.i    ^/l/hi.iuii:  t'vi 

1X22  26.  1846. 

•'"'  C/iiisl'I'Ae  Cdhinfi;  1  2m.>,  I'.nis,  I  851;;  '■'  Helctl  !..ili>S'4  C'lluwh,,  ;  l.iiiid.,  Xko, 

.mil  /,.;  Cnixiluns  la  />(A-  b.v/;./.-.,  I'.iii:,  1X4-';   jiintnl  fi>r  llic  ll.ikluM  Sillily 

Su),     1S43     (.1     very     str.ingu     |>frtorm-  "'   Ti,-  L.inJjul/o/(:(,luu!/us ;  L  iiii\.,X\ii, 

.MKf).  1856. 

""  .'itinalfi  iclnitiiiii.il,-  &filla;M.xJit\i,  "'  CiUti  esf'tiiu  (  iX.j2  I,  .j/«./  ii.itc;.   lu 

(ol.,  1677-  rii-mli  iMiiAUtiun  iif'  Navakkkti.;   I'aiis, 

"'    Itif'rmjiion,  ii/iuil  fiwAHKiti       Viil.  Sm>,  1S2X. 

II,  Ni).  i.xxvi,  |i.igf  145.  "'  Saiurjl  '.liiiorf  ofCaiolinai  Loiidini, 

•'  Proceedings  oC  the  Niw  York  His-  toliu,  1731. 


6  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1493.  January  i6tli,  149J.  Owing  to  severe  storms,  he  an- 
chored  off  St.  Mary's,  one  of  the  Azores,  Fef)ruary  i8th, 
and  afterwards  at  Rastello,  in  the  Tagus,  near  Lisbon, 
where  he  landed  March  4th,  and  from  which  he  sent  to 
Castile  a  messenger  bearing  the  news  and  letters  ad- 
dressed to  Sanchez  and  Santangel.  After  an  eventful 
time  at  the  court  of  John  II,  of  Portugal,  where  the 
courtiers  proposed  openly  to  murder  him  [Garcia  de  Re- 
iende'\  Barros,  f^asconcei/os),  Columbus  departed,  Wed- 
nesday, March  13th,  landing  finally  at  Palos,  Friday, 
March  15th,  1493,  at  noon. 

When  still  on  board  his  caravel,  February  15th,  off  the 
island  of  St.  Mary,  Columbus  wrote  two  official  ac- 
counts of  his  voyage,  one  of  which  was  addressed  to 
Raphael  or  Gabriel  Sanchez  or  Sanxis,  the  Crown  Trea- 
surer. No  copy,  either  in  print  or  in  manuscript,  of 
the  Spanish  original  has  yet  been  found,  but  the  dis- 
covery made  a  few  years  ago,  in  the  Ambrosian  library, 
of  a  printed  copy  of  the  letter  addressed  to  Luiz  de 
Santangel  (No.  7),  warrants  the  belief  that  not  only 
it  may  have  been  printed,  but  that  it  is  not  irretrievably 
lost.  As  to  the  original  itself,  notwithstanding  the 
diligent  searches  instituted  by  Mufioz  in  Simancas,  and 
Navarrete  in  the  Lonja  at  Seville,  where,  after  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  General  Archives  of  the  Indies,  in 
1792,  all  documents  relating  to  the  Western  World  had 
been  transferred,  no  traces  of  it  have  ever  been  dis- 
covered. Munoz  supposes  that  it  has  been  inserted  in 
Chapt.  cxviii  of  Bernaldez'  Historiade  los  Reyes  Catolicos. 
We  are  of  opinion  that  the  latter  work  contains  only 

^  a  close  paraphrase  of  the  letter  addressed  to  Santangel, 

as  the  reader  can  ascertain  by  comparing  the  Ambrosian 
text  with  the  original  of  Bernaldez,  both  of  which  are 
inserted,  together  with  a  translation  into  English,  in  our 
Notes  ou  Columbus,  pages  89—115. 

The  substance  of  that  valuable  document,  however, 

*'  Ljvro  Jas obrai {  Evora,  f'ol.,  1554}  as  CAroniia,  Lisb.,  I'ol.,  ISy6,  1607,  1611,  175*. 


fiibliotheca  Americana.  7 

has  been  transmitted  to  us  through  a  translation  made    1493' 
in  very  poor  Latin — "  semi-barbaro"  {Muh(jz) — by  one -.^m 
Leander   or    Aliander  dc    Cosco,    on   or   about    April 
25th,  149J.    Of  that  translation  we  describe,  de  visu,  six 
editions,  all  apparently  published  within  the  year  1493. 

Only  one  of  those  six  editions  contains  the  name  of 
the  printer,  his  place  of  residence,  and  the  year  when  it 
was  printed.  It  is  our  No.  3.  Another  has  the  printer's 
name  and  residence,  but  no  date  (No.  6);  whilst  a  third 
(No.  5)  gives  only  the  place.  The  other  three  (Nos. 
I,  2,  and  3)  are  all  sine  anno  aut  loco. 

The  text,  with  the  exception  of  variations  in  the  use 
of  contracted  letters  {viz. :  (p,  (j),  ^\,  U,  t,  9,  (J5,  fl,  ^,  f,  f, 
l>  0,  jJ,  (|,  f>  U,  p,  Q),  is  the  same  for  all.  The  titles  differ. 
In  Nos.  I,  2,  5,  and  6,  the  name  of  King  Ferdinand  only 
is  given ;  in  Nos.  3  and  4,  that  of  ^ueen  Isabella  is 
added.  In  Nos.  i,  2,  5,  and  6,  the  recipient  of  the 
letter  is  called  Raphael ;  in  Nos.  3  and  4,  he  is  named 
Gabriel.  His  family  name  is  spelled  in  Nos.  1,2,  5, 
and  6,  Sanxis ;  in  No.  3,  Sane  his ;  in  No.  4,  Ranches. 
The  translator  is  mentioned  as  Aliander  in  Nos.  i,  2, 
5,  and  6;  in  Nos.  3  and  4,  as  Leander ;  whilst  No.  3 
adds  the  complimentary  adjective  of  generosus  where  all 
the  others  have  nobilis.  No.  2  is  the  only  one  which 
lacks  the  words  Indie  supra  Gangem  in  the  title''". 

Nos.  5  and  6  were  certainly  printed  at  Paris,  and  No. 


[ill,  175*- 


""  Gr:u'sse  st.ites  that  "  Dans  I'ex  dc 
I'cil.  liu  Euch.  Sillier,  cniistivi-  a  la  liilil. 
Amhriis.  Ae  Milan,  man<|ut:iit  lc&  deux 
mots  supra  (ian^tm  au  titre."  We  are  u{ 
imiircssion  that  in  this  instance  Nu.  i  is 
in'ended.  The  Amhtosian  is  nut  kn<iwn 
to  possess  a  cupy  of  the  Silber  (our  No. 
']),  whilst  the  Brera  his,  or  had,  a  rine, 
though  incotnpUte  speiinien  ot  No.  i, 
which  has  lately  lieen  stolen.  When 
Morelli,  (lianoiini  and  Uo»^i  have  occasion 
to  nientii  n  a  four  leaves  unillu.~trated  edi- 
tion, the)  .ilways  reter  to  one  in  the  Ma^- 
li.ihechi  (No.  3).  Had  the  diligent  llossi, 
who  made  his  transcript  of  No.  1  tioni  the 
Bii'ta  copy,  linown   if  the  exi'ti'nc'  of  .; 


Silber  in  the  Anibrosian.  he  would  have 
mentioned  it  instead  of  referring  to  an  un- 
illustrated  copy  in  Florence.  It  must  be 
said,  however,  that  by  a  clause  in  the  v;\\\ 
of  Cardinal  Kred.  Borromeo,  the  flunder 
of  the  Anibrosian,  it  is  prohibited  to  make 
a  catalogue  of  that  great  library ;  the  bonks 
have  not  even  their  titles  inscribed  on  the 
hack,  which  may  account  for  a  plaqueite 
of  that  ilescription  escaping  the  lynx- 
eyes  of  a  Bossi  or  a  Morelli.  Still,  the 
omission  of  those  two  words  throws  a 
dubious  lii;lil  upon  Graesse's  assertion. 
We  have  examined  four  copies  of  the  Sil- 
ber, and  heard  of  two  more,  none  of  which 
1  niit  the  passage  /w./rr  iupra  (i.irtgfm. 


8  Bibliotheca   /Americana. 

I4Q7.    3  at  Rome,  which  is  said  by  Morelli,  Gianorini,  Bossi 
_______  and  others,  to  be  also  the  case  with  Nos.  i,  2,  and   4. 

There  are  no  positive  proofs  that  the  hitter  are  Roman 
impressions,  but  the  probability  is  that  they  were  at 
least  published  in  Italy.  The  kind  of  type  used  is  a 
good  test  for  those  who  possess  the  means  of  compar- 
ing; but  in  the  absence  of  a  large  collection  of  dated  /«- 
cunahulte  we  propose  an  hypothesis.  Of  the  translator, 
de  Cosco,  we  know  absolutely  nothing;  but  there  is  no 
lack  of  precise  details  concerning  the  author  of  the  epi- 
gram which  is  at  the  end  of  Nos.  i,  2,  3,  and  4  (in  Nos.  5 
and  6  it  is  on  the  verso  of  the  first  leaf).  Although  called 
in  that  versified  eulogium  R.  L.  de  Corbaria,  his  name 
should  be  Berardus  or  Leonard  de  Carninis'"^,  whilst  he 
was,  from  1491  to  1498,  Bishop  of  Monte-l*eloso, 
situated  in  the  kingtlom  of  Naples,  but  a  direct  depen- 
dency of  Rome.  Now,  when  we  take  into  consideration 
the  short  time  which  elapsed  between  the  return  of  Co 
lumbus  and  the  publication  of  his  letter,  one  of  which 
(No.  J,  which  also  contains  the  epigram)  bears  the  un- 
mistakable date  of  1493  in  the  colophon  ;  the  distance 
between  Spain  and  Italy;  the  difficulty  of  semiing  books 
or  letters  to  and  fro,  in  those  days,  and  the  fact  that 
the  epigrammatist  resided  in  Italy,  it  is  certainly  per- 
mitted to  infer  that  the  plaquette  before  us  is  the  work 
of  an  Italian  printer. 

The  types  used  in  Nos.  i,  2,  and  3  differ  from  each 
other  in  size,  form,  and  in  the  employment  of  contrac- 
tions. We  suppose,  therefore,  that  they  were  printed 
by  three  different  printers.  Franck  Silber,  usually  called 
fclucharius  Argenteus  or  Argyrios,  is  certainly  the  printer 
of  No.  3,  Guyot  Marchant  or  Mercator  that  of  Nos. 
5  and  6.  Nos.  i  and  4  have  the  same  type,  and  are, 
therefore,  the  work  of  one  printer,  who  is  supposed, 
from  the  great  similarity  found  to  exist  between  the  lat- 
ter and  the  books  printed  in  1493  by  Stephanus  IMannck, 

"■  UoHtLi.i,  Italia  Harra  (cd.  ot'  Kumv,  Jul.,  1644  61);  Vul.  1,  (>agc  1072. 


.,-}1 


Bibliotheca  Jnuricana.  9 

to    he    the  work    of   that   excellent   typographer.      Jo-     1493' 

hanties    Besicken   may    have  printed    No.    2.      Hail   we 

access  to  some  of  the  early  puhlications  of  IMannck  and 
Besicken,  so  artistically  descrihed  hy  the  great  Audif- 
freili,  we  might  hope,  perhaps,  to  establish  the  chrono- 
logy of  those  plaquetles.  But  in  the  absence  of  any 
typographical  criterion  to  ascertain  which  of  our  six  edi- 
tions is  entitled  to  the  much-coveteil  place  of  editio 
princeps,  we  beg  leave  to  resort  to  another  hypothesis, 
which  the  reailer  may  take  for  what  it  is  worth. 

Kerilinand  and  Isabella  reigned  conjointly  to  the  year 
1504.  We  have  already  stated  that  in  the  titles  of  four 
of  the  editions  the  name  of  Isabella  is  omitted,  as  if 
Fenlinand  was,  when  the  plaquettes  were  printed,  sole 
King  of  Spain.  This  would  be  a  presumption  that 
they  date  from  after  1 504,  as  Ferdinand  reigned  until 
1516;  but  we  know  of  no  book  printed  by  Plannck 
after  1498,  and  of  Besicken,  whether  in  partnership  with 
Mayr  or  with  Martinus  of  Amsterdam,  after  1501. 
Besides,  Nos.  5  and  6,  which  also  omit  the  name  of 
Isabella,  bear  the  imprint  of  Guyot  Marchant,  who  cer- 
tainly ceased  to  print  before  1501;  the  Basle  edition  of 
the  yerardus,  which  gives,  in  a  kind  of  appendix,  the 
Columbus  letter,  evidently  taken  from  No.  2,  is  plainly 
dated  on  the  verso  of  the  twenty-ninth  leaf:  1494.  We 
must,  therefore,  consider  the  absence  of  the  Queen's  name 
each  '"  Nos.  i,  2,  5  and  6,  involving,  as  it  does,  a  grammati- 

ntrac-  cal  change  which  runs  through  the  entire  sentence,  as  a 

rinted  premeditated  omission,  which  was  afterwards  repaired  in 

called  Nos.  j  and  4. 

rititer  '^^^  claims  of  5  and  6  we  set  aside,  for  it  is  not  likely 

Nos.  ^'^^^  ^^^^  letter  was  sent  to  Paris  before  it  reached  Rome, 

are,  Bossi  justly  remarks  that  the  Spanish  sovereigns  would 

osed,  ^^^^  ""   '^■'"*^  "^  dispatching  an   official  account  to  the 

_  ijit-  Holy-See,  in  order  to  obtain  from  the  Pope  the  inves- 

ipnck  titure   of   the   newly    discovereil   lands.     On    the  other 

hand,  it  is  well  known  that  after  Charles  VIII  had  re- 
stored  Roussillon  and   Cerdagne  to   Ferdinand  by  the 

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lO  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

149^.    Treaty  of  Barcelona,  January  lyth,  149;?,   the  Spanish 

'       Monarch,  anxious  as  he  was  to  find  a  pretense  to  disreganl 

his  own  engagements  relating  to  the  Kingtloni  of  Naples, 

took  no  extraordinary  pains  to  make  himself  agreeable 

to  Charles  VIII. 

We  believe  that  an  official  account  was  sent  from 
the  Court  of  Spain  to  Rome,  previous  even  to  the 
secoml  I'.mbassy  of  Obedience  intrusted  to  Carvajal;  the 
Bull  of  Concession  of  May  jd'",  and  the  Bull  of  De- 
marcation of  May  4th,  1493'',  are  conclusive  on  that 
point;  but  we  are  not  prepared  to  say  that  the  said  ac- 
count was  the  Letter  of  Columbus.  The  latter  was 
originally  written  in  Spanish,  and  although  the  reigning 
Pope,  Alexander  Borgia,  was  a  Spaniard  by  birth,  the 
dispatch  sent  by  Isabella,  being  an  official  document,  it 
must  have  been  in  Latin.  The  letter,  however,  may 
have  been  added  to  the  package ;  but  if  it  was  not  sent 
in  the  original  Spanish,  some  obscure  clerk  in  the 
Foreign  Office  is  entitled  to  the  merit  or  demerit  of  the 
version  ;  nor  do  we  believe  that  his  name  would  have 
l)een  inserted  in  the  title.  The  fact  that  the  communi- 
cations were  much  more  frequent  and  facile  between 
Italy  and  Spain  than  between  Spain  and  France,  is  a 
sufficient  reason  to  consider  the  Paris  editions  of  the 
De  Insulis  as  mere  reprints. 

Nos.  3  and  4,  being  set  aside  because  they  contain  the 
name  of  the  (^ueen,  and  Nos.  5  and  6  simply  on  ac- 
count of  their  origin,  Nos.  i  and  2  only  remain.  But 
which  of  these  two  is  the  editio  primeps  ? 

No.  I  is  a  plain  plaquette,  without  even  an  orna- 
mented or  red-printed  initial,  so  common  in  those  days, 
whilst  No.  1  contains  no  less  than  seven  (the  eighth 
r|  being   only    a    repetition)   elaborate   woodcuts,  five   of 

,  which  cover  each  an  entire  page.     Now,  when  we  recol- 

lect the  importance  of  the  news  which  the  Letter  was 


) 


f! 


'"  Navaruei  E,   Ci^leciion  lie /tt,    viugfi  ;  "   V.utn,  Oeiiiites  ij' lie   Newe   Wor/./i-j 

Vol.  II,  pages  11-35.  Lond.,  4tc),  1555,  pages  167-171. 


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Ribliotheca   Americana. 


1 1 


intended  to  convey,  and  the  time  rtquircd  to  prepare     149^^. 
the  woodcuts,  it  is  fair  to  assume  that  the  unillustrated   ---1—  au. 
eiiition,  which,  all  things  considered,  was  only  what  we 
would  now  call  an   "  extra,"  was  published  first.     We 
therefore  suppose  that  No.  1  is  the  cditio  princeps'\ 

On  the  verso  of  the  tenth  leaf  of  No.  2  there  is  a 
woodcut,  comprising  the  word  "  Granata,"  and  the  arms 
of  that  city,  which  might  lead,  perhaps,  to  the  heliet  that 
No.  1  was  printed  in  Granada,  and  therefore  before  any 
of  the  other  editions,  but  for  the  following  objections: 
In  the  first  place,  if  we  can  understand  how  a  stranger 
five  hundred  leagues  away  shoidd  not  know  that  both 
Ferdinand  and  Isabella  were  on  the  throne,  it  is  difficult 
to  believe  that  the  same  ignorance  could  prevail  at 
Granada,  especially  in  the  year  following  its  conquest  by 
the  two  sovereigns.  In  the  second  place,  armorial 
bearings  cannot  be  considered  a  test,  as  they  are  not 
unfrequently  found  on  books  known  to  have  been 
printed  in  cities  or  countries  which  do  not  claim  as 
their  own  the  inserted  escutcheon.^'  For  instance,  the 
Mundus  Novus,   which   was   printed   for   Wm.  Vorster- 


tyoriif. 


"  The  fulluwing  title,  which  we  burrow 
from  the  Livrei  Curieux  (No.  lo6),  if" 
correctly  (.'iven,  ami  an  It.ili.in  eilitiun, 
wouM  prove  a  formiilable  rival  for  the  po- 
sition of  filiiiii  prhitpi — not  because  it 
bears  the  date  of  1491,  but  for  the  reason 
that  it  Is  unillu^trateil,  and  omits  the  name 
of  Isabella.  !n  fact,  there  is  no  argument 
alleged  in  favor  of  No.  I  which  could  not 
apply  to  the  following  :  "  Epistola  Cliris- 
tofori  Colom,  cui  etas  nostra  multum  de- 
bet;  de  Insulis  Indiie  supra  Gangem  nuper 
Inventis.  Ad  ijuas  perq.-rendas  octavo  an- 
tea  mense  ausspiciis  et  ere  invitliisimi  Fer- 
minM  Hisfiiinijrum  Rtj^ii  missus  fuerat 
(au  lieu  de  Fernnnji  el  Ueliijbet  Rfgum 
missus  fuerat)  Ad  magnificum  duum 
(lahrielem  Sanchis — missa  :  tjuam  nobilis 
ac  litteratus  vir  l.eanjer  de  Cosco  ab  His- 
pano  idiomate  in  latinum  convertit  tertiu 
kal's  Mail  m.cccc.xcii.  [j'V],  Hontili- 
catus  Alexandri  Sexti  Annu  primu.  (4 
feuillets,  dune  leg  pages  enticrcs  portent  3] 


lignco.)"  Evidently  a  cios»  between  No. 
I  and  No.  3 — if  not  a  myth  altogether. 

The  title  to  the  text  published  by  Mr. 
Major  also  dilfers  from  any.  It  seems  to 
follow  No.  4,  but  whilst  tlie  lattei  calls 
the  Treasurer  (l,ihriel  Sunt/ia,  in  the  Sflfii 
/,fr/crj  lie  ii  named  Raphatl  Sanxii.  Must 
we  view  this  dirtcrenie  as  a  correcti<m  in- 
troduced by  the  le.irned  editor,  ur  as  indi- 
cating another  edition  .' 

As  10  the  allusion  in  iMnelo-Barcia  (cul. 
564),  made  on  the  .luthority  of  Uraudius, 
and  repeated  by  Navarrete,  which  might 
convey  the  impression  that  a  separate  edi- 
tion of  the  Letter  had  been  given  by  one 
Kiiri(|ue  I'edro,  of  Basle,  we  scarcely  need 
say  that  the  Hihli(,thetd  Clauica  of  Drau- 
dius  (page  7iS,  eilit.  of  I  fill)  refers  only 
to  the  collection  published  by  the  monk 
Robert,  under  the  title  of  Hdliim  Ckiit- 
liarorum,  and  printed  .it  Uasle  in  1533. 

"  Cnrvil.i.ir.K,  Oriffine  Jr  Plmfrinifrit  f 
I'arii),  4tu,  1 61/4. 


IS 


liibliothcca  /Imcricana. 


.in  \.  mann,  of  Antwerp  (sec  infra),  contains  on  the  last  leaf 
«'^'-  cioulilc'-hcailci.i  eagle  coat-of-arnis,  and  the  escut- 
cheon of  the  latter  city,  yet  it  is  generally  believed 
that  the  pla(|iiette  was  printetl  somewhere  on  the 
Lower-Khine,  where  neither  Charles  V  nor  IMiilip  II 
ever  reigned.  In  the  third  place,  we  have  shown  that 
the  epigram,  which  is  in  No.  2  as  well  as  in  No.  1, 
was  the  proiluction  of  an  Italian  Bishop,  who  then 
lived  near  Rome.  iMnally,  not  only  Maittaire"*,  La 
Caille^',  Cahrera'',  Mende//  ,  Oriandi''*,  and  the  leading 
historians  of  the  Typographical  Art  assert  that  printing 
was  not  introduced  into  Granada  until  149^),  hut,  to 
quote  La  Serna  Santander,  the  highest  authority  on 
such  matters :  "  Primer  voluwen  ile  vita  Christi,  ue 
Kray  I'ranc.  Ximene/,  in  fol.,  1496,  est  la  seuie  impres- 
sion connue  faite  a  Grenade  tians  le  XV'  siccle;  ce  qui 
n'a  rien  d'extraonlinaire  quand  on  saitque  cette  ville  su- 
perhe  ne  fut  concpiise  sur  les  Mauresqu'en  I'aii  1492.""' 
Were  we  called  upon  to  advance  a  supposition  as  to 
what  Knglish  philosophers  would  now  term  x\\*i  genesis  of 
those  editions,  we  .should  say,  that  on  the  receipt  of  the 
great  news  in  Spain  the  Letter  of  Columbus  was  made 
public,  and  printed  in  the  original  Spanish,  probably  at 
Barcelona,  by  I'osa,  Michael,  or  Barro,  or  at  Seville,  by 
Ungut  and  Polonus,  in  a  kind  of  semi-gothic  character, 
resembling,  we  imagine,  the  Santangel  Letter  (No.  7), 
That  when  Francesco  Marchesi  and  Giovanni  Antonio 
Grimaldi,  the  Genoese  Kmbassadors,  returned  to  Italy 
a  short  time  after  the  arrival  of  the  transatlantic  expedi- 
tion [St'nare^a")y  they  procured  some  of  those  pla- 
quettes,  one  of  which  may  yet  come  to  light  in  some 
private  or  public  library  of  Genoa,  Rome,  Naples,  or 
Florence,  just  as  a  copy  of  the  Santangel  was  discovered 


"  Annatti  l'}/>''gr.  {  Vol.  i,  I'.irt  l,  I'lgi  '    Tyfioj^iapln,!  Esf>tiil,Lii    M.ulriil,  4I11, 

76  (.-.lit.  ■■»  I  7  3  }).  I  7yfi,  '|ugu  145. 

"■  linn.iii-   ,lf  /' Im/'imfi  ii- ;    l^^ri.^,   4I11,  '"  (higine  ,ifii'f  Si,imf'ii  ;    IJ.iliign.i,  4tii, 

16X9,  fSfc  49.  1711,  [lyc  214 

"  Mfn.oi'uilf    (1.    10,   .;/•«./  the   tullnw-  ''  On  ri  nnjirr  Hih/i  .f^ijfiJii'^uf  f    Suppl., 

in^  !  BiiKclIvs,  Xvo,  iSo^,  Vol.  in,  |<at;i'  516 


,U1 


Miugmtimia 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


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4>". 

.1,    4tn, 


a  short  time  since  among  the  books  bequeathed  by  Cus- 
todi  to  the  Ambrosian  library.  The  results  of  Colum-i 
bus'  voyage  were  so  flattering  to  his  countrymen  that 
the  Spanish  accounts  must  have  circulateil  freely,  and 
easily  found  their  way  into  the  large  cities  of  Italy.  A 
copy  having  been  secured  either  by  Cosco  or  the  Bishojs 
of  Monte- l*eloso,  the  former  undertook  to  translate  it 
into  Latin,  and  add  a  title,  while  the  latter  inserted  the 
following  epigram  : 

ClSpigramma.  U.  it.  He  Corbarla  ISpi  liilont(f= 
palufij.  atj  Jn-llbirtiffimum  Urgrm  |l)ifpaniarHm : . 

.^am  nulla  1ll)ifpaiii»  tcllufs  aHDrntia  triiimp1)t^. 

2lt(j;  parum  tantis  biriftufii  ortis  rrat. 
Ilunc  longr  roisi  trgio  lirprrnfa  fub  tontilfis. 

^urtura  rft  titulo^s  Urtirr  magnr  tuo» 
ffilnlir  rrprrtori  iucvito  rcfrrcntia  iiTolumijo 

(!5ratia:  frti  fummo  rft  maior  babrntia  irro. 
<Dui  binrcntia  parat  noua  rrgna  tibiti;  fibicj; 

CTcflp  fimul  fortcm  prcftat  ct  cffc  pium.'^ 

The  manuscript  was  then  intrusted  to  Stephanus 
Flannck,  who  immediately  printed  No.  i  ;  the  success 
of  which,  as  they  had  no  copyright  in  those  days,  in- 
duced Johannes  Besicken,  who  had  lately  come  or  sim- 
ply returned  from  Basle  (where,  in  imitation  of  the 
Nuremberg  printers,  it  was  a  common  rhing  to  insert 
a  number  of  woodcuts),  to  prepare  an  illustrated  edi- 
tion, which  is  our  No.  2.     I'he  grave  omission  in  the 

•"EPIGRAM, 

BY    >,    L.    KI    CORUARIA,    BISHOI-    or    MUNTr -I'tlLllMl, 

To  the  Invincihlt  King  uflht  Stains:  And  the  mid-oct'jn  summons  to  tliy  sway' 
Less  wiile  the  wiirlJ   than   thr  renown  of     Give  thanks  to  him — but  loftier   homage 

Spain,  pay 

To  swell  her  triumphs  MP  new  lanils  remain  !  To  Goil  Supreme,  who  gives  its  realms  to 
Rejoice,  llieria'  see  thy  tame  inireaseil !  thee! 

Another  woilj  Cohimlius  from  the  East  Greatest  of  monarchs,  first  of"  servants  he' 


493- 


14 


Hiifliotheca   /fmericana. 


4.01.  title  of  the  name  of  (juccn  Isabella,  combined  with 
■MMMH  the  dcinaiui  fur  the  news  which,  as  we  know,  was  una- 
bated, prompted  Franck  Silber  to  publish  a  corrected 
edition,  which  is  our  No,  3;  on  seciim  which,  IMannck 
also  maile  a  new  edition,  but  with  the  improved  title 
taken  from  Silber,  and  which  is  our  No.  4.  It  is  pro- 
bable that  copies  of  the  earliest  editions  were  the  first 
sent  abroail,  and  that  Nos.  5  and  6  were  copied  in  Paris 
from  No.  I,  while  theeilitmn  inscrtetl  in  the  AV,Trfrr/«.f  of 
Basle,  1494"',  was  copieil  from  No.  2. 

We  have  never  seen,  amony  the  early  historians,  a 
direct  reference  to  any  of  the  fifteenth  century  eilitions 
of  the  l)t'  Insults,  although  we  fancy  that  traces  can  be 
found  in  the  works  of  Sabellico,  Maffei  of  Volterra,  and 
Hergomas.  After  151 1  it  becomes  obvious  that  all 
the  references  to  Columbus  and  his  voyages  are  inspired 
by  the  Raccoltu  of  Vicen/a,  its  various  translations,  and 
the  Decades  of  I'eter  Martyr.  Towanls  the  end  of  the 
sixteenth  century,  authors,  including  even  Conraii  Ges- 
ner,  begin  to  quote  the  Letter  itself,  but  in  almost  all 
instances  it  is  with  the  addition  of  an  honest  afud^ 
referring  directly  to  the  monk  Robert's  Helium  Chr'ts- 
t'lanorum  Principum. 

I)e  Cosco's  Latin  translation  was  repul)lished  in  an 
appendix  to  Charles  Verardo's  drama  on  the  conquest 
of  Granada"',  and  afterwards  inserted  in  Robert's  collec- 
tion'*'. In  1602  Andrew  Schott'*'  again  published  the 
l)e  Insults  in  his  rare  llispania  illustrata^\  It  is  also  in 
Amati's  Storko-Critico-Scientificliey  copied  from  No.  4***. 


"'  In  liiuJem  Hoer.iiiimi  Fcrilin.nuli,  ict.  ; 
I4<;4,  lint  li,.n  (ltjslc,liy  ilc  (Jlpc),  Kvn,  List 
seven  li'jvcs;  which  c<litii>ii  i>t  ■4<y4  we  hu- 
lii'vf  to  be  the  only  om-  of  the  original  /'(■- 
iiit,l:ise$  contjining  the  l)i-  hiiulit  The 
Kii-silt'l  (jtjlogue  (No.  1 1 17)  mentions  j 
Konie  tvlition  uith  tiie  Ue  Initilii,  14<;4, 
which  we  think  erroneous,  as  the  Kome 
editions  ol  the  i'naiilui  >lo  not  lontain 
the  Letter.  Mr,  M.ijor,  in  his  valuable 
Stteci  Leiltri,  page  VI,  also  ({uotes  "another 
cditiun  ut'  the  letter  running   u  seijuel  tu 


I'ei.iritus,  (olio,  printed  In  lli>le,  ISIli" 
whiih  we  think  to  be  only  the  follow- 
ing : 

"'  Utilum  Clirislianorum  primipumi  Itasle, 
fol.,  1533,  pat'e  116,  iq. 

"'  The  nivateiious  and  inlroutia/'/e  "  Es- 
coto"  ot  Muiloz  .\\u{  Navarrete.  "h'rank- 
tort,  5  vols,  t'ol.,  ifioj  -X,  art.  xxii.  Vol  ii, 
page  iz8l,  jy. 

■'  Milan,  Svo,  iSiS-jO;  Vol.  iv,  pageb 
J14  iH,  trom  a  copy  in  the  Trivulgio 
libr.,  Milan. 


Htblioihicu  /ttnarican 


•5 


Wf  rtful  the  text  with  a  French  version  in  C,  M.  149^. 
Unino's  translation  of  Hossi^',  in  the  Paris  edition  of  vLt.  ...  g 
Navarrete"',  anil  in  M.  ile  Kosny's  hite  piihlication'^ 

With  an  Italian  version,  the  text,  taken  from  No.  2, 
has  heen  inserteil  in  the  original  work  of  Hossi^'.  Navar- 
rctc'  gives  it  from  No.  j,  with  a  Spanish  translation,  arul 
Mr.  Major  with  a  correct  I'.nglish  version  ami  valuahle 
introiinction  in  \\\s  Select  Letters''^  It  is  likewise  in  »)ur 
Notes  on  Columbus^  copied  line  for  line,  with  the  origitial 
abbreviations,  from  No.  1. 

In  Italian  alone,  it  is  inserted  in  a  pompous  octavo, 
lately  published''. 

A  Cierman  translation  was  printed  as  early  as  1497 
(see/«/rrf),  whilst,  according  to  Tross'*'',  one  Charles  Fon- 
taine deilicateil  to  "  M.  d'lvor.  Secretaire  ilu  Roy," 
a  French  version,  which  was  published  at  Lyons  by 
kigauil,  in  1559,  i^)mo,  under  the  title  of  " /.«  De- 
scription des  terres  trouuees  de  nostre  temps." 

The  first  version  in  Fnglish — and  a  very  poor  one  it 
is — we  find  in  x\\<l  Edinburgh  Review'^  ;  the  last  was  given 
in  the  New  York  Historical  Magazine''. 


in 


Dinut  ref'eremti :  t  MtusEi.,  Itihlhithtui  Hiitiriciif  Vol.  x,  I'.itl  it,  y.x^v  l\^ 
j  Aspiriw.ill  Cat.Uii(;uf,  No.  I. 
I  TlKNAUX,  Hil>lkthi jue  ylmirintine,  No.  1. 

Sykes'  Cituloguc,  Part  ill,  No.  134. 

Bil>li;ihfi,i  (!>envilli,inii,  |>.igc  l^X. 

Serjpcim,  1X4^,  V<il.  VI,  (1.1  ;c  350. 

Appi'iiili*  til  N.  V.  rc|iriiit  iif  Syllcniij,  (laye  «liii;   loltiT  I) 

Ukunm,  Mu'^ufl,  Vol.  II,  tol.  163. 

GKAissr,  Triiiii,  Vol  II,  (i.iKf  iiX. 

Nults  on  Columhui,  tol.,   1S6?,  p.iges  1 17-124)  Icttrr  A 


ill. 

low- 

tasli', 

K9- 

uik- 
.1  11, 


uigio 


"•  I'arls,  Svo,  1814,  iiiil  1S25-S. 

""  I'.iris,  Svo,  1S2S 

''  l.flire  Je  C/iiisi  f'/ii  Cf  m/i;  I'aris, 
Hvo,  1S65,  44  |i|). 

""  K.iiiiJi,!  , om/i/ciii  i  I.  I.  (l.yoiiO,  Hvo, 
1X64,  witli  a  stati'ly  porlijii  ut'  tiji-  liaiis- 
l.itoi,  wlikli,iii  a  .'/m/'/i-/!' i.iili'itioii,  might 
liavi'  iiiin  rrplaci'd  with  a>lvantagc  by  .1 
trantcript  of  the  Libro  ,.'<•  I'mfhiii,  anii  of 


tin-  notfs  in  the  hanil  ot' ('olumlnis,  whiih 
till  tliL  margin  of'  thi  cnpy  ot'  O'Ailly'n 
lmji;r,  munJi,  in  the  C'liluiiihian  library  it 
Seville. 

■"  C'atiloguc,  I'lfi5,  No.  ijfifi 
'"  Kor    Di-icmli.,    1S16,   |>agi-8   505    11 
Ri'l'iiMisheil    ill    the    .■Jna/fiiii    M<if,iiine, 
Vol.  IX,  pages  516-  i 22. 

"'  For  April,  l.S6s,  pages  1 14 -118 


1 6  Bibliotheca   Americana. 

I  49 '^«  2.    COI.UMiniS   {CHUiarorHEKi—Rea'i  of  ih,-  nconil  leaf: 


Pit  Jtt|tUt0  tnucnttf 


iBpiftola  ifTriftofrvi  vf  olom  (rui  rtas  noftvall  mul= 
tu  lrr1)rt:  tir  JnfuU^ii  in  mavi  Jntiiro  nupHiniiftis. 
^ti  quasi  prv(iuirrnliarj  fitauo  antra  ||  mrnfr:  auf= 
piriiFi  rt  rrr  Jnuirtiffimi  ,jfrvnantii|l1ll)ifpauiaruiu 
Urflis  miffus  fucrat)  atj  jiflag  ||  niftrum  tjftm  i\a= 
pl)arln  iraiuis:  riuHic  frir-Hniffimi  iirgifii  ff^1)r= 
fauvariu  miffa.  t|uam  nol)i||lifj  ar  Uttrrat?  iiir  <aii= 
antirr  li  uTofro:  al)  ?t)if  H^jano  ijtiromatr  in  latiufl 
roHUcvtit:  trrrio  iU'sHjrBaii.  itt.rrrr..vriii.  |)onti= 
firatu»  airxantiriil  S'Cxti  Hnno  |)rimo.||''' 


I 


'^^*  Sill.  8vij,  sine  /'no  nut  anno;  ten  leaves,  twcnty-scvcn  lines  in  a 
lull  paj^e;  eiyht  wooJcuts,  r/z. ;  single  escutcheon  ot'Casiile 
anil  L,eon  on  recto  of  the  rirst  leaf  ;  and  on  the  verso  a  vessel, 
with  the  W(jri.is :  Oicankii  i/iissis  ,•  on  verso  of  the  second  leaf', 
men  landing,  and  Imula  hi^piinii  ;  on  verso  of  the  third  lear,  u 
kind  of  map,  with  the  words:  Frrn'u/ii,  I'siiht/l.i,  hsspanii, 
siiludt'jric,  I'lnctptoris,  ridrie,  and  a  'aravel  ;  on  the  recto  of 
the  fifth  leaf,  the  woodcut  of  the  vers(j  of  the  second  leaf  is 
repeated;  on  the  verso  of  the  sixth  leaf,  a  town  or  fort  in 
process  of  construction,  and  the  words  insii/ii  Hipiina  ;  on 
recto  of  the  tenth  leaf,  full-length  portrait  of  Ferdinand,  hoM- 
ing  the  escutcheon  ot"  Castile  and  Leon  in  his  right  hand, 
auil  that  of  Ciranaila  in  his  left,  and  tlie  words:  FtiniuP  rex 
h'ispdniii  ;  on  the  verso,  solitary  coat-of-arnis  of  Granada,  and 
the  won!  Ciriimitii,     No  water-mark. 

(1'riv.ite   Library,  New  York.) 


*  /Jn^/i,r ;    CDniiTiiiiii;   isljmis  discov-      .nldrr6st;>i   ti>  ttic  noMu  linl  Kufijei  Saii\- 
trcil.       Letter     tVuin    Cllri^t■l|lllt•r     Cxlom      ;i :    '^rl•.l^ult■r    nt'   the    ».inic-    most    butftiu 


(tu  wlioni  ipiir  .n;c  <.wctli  muih  :  iiincfrn- 
iilg  the  iiiUriils  in  the  lihli.iri  leu  rttfiit- 
ly  Jisioveruil.  In  siMrth  ut'  wliiili  lie 
wjs  sent  eiglit  nionllis  ajju  :  under  the 
juijiiies  .m>l  .It  the  expeiue  nt  the  in- 
vincible  King  ul    the    S|Min»    l''nJin,ii:,l), 


Kinj!,  which  the  noble  aiul  le.irMe)  m.in 
Aiiiin,te>  Je  Coho  ;  tr.in>l.ili  .1  fu.ni  the 
Sp.ini&h  iiliuni  into  I. 'tin  :  the  thir.l 
day  iif  the  laU-nl:,  ,i|'  M^y,  I4<;}.  The 
\ei\  One  ul'  the  I'lint'tieate  ut'  Ale»an- 
.lei   VI. 


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The  present  is  the  only  perfect  copy  known,  and  for-     1493' 

merly  belonged  to   M.   Libri.     There  is  another  copy ^ 

in  the  British  Museum.  There  was  one  also  in  the 
Brcra  librar.  at  Milan,  which  served  for  Bossi's'  and 
the  Edinburgh  Review'-  versions,  but  it  has  lately  been 
stolen'.  The  latter,  as  well  as  the  Grenville  copy,  lacks 
the  tenth  leaf,  and  therefore  the  last  two  woodcuts. 

Brunet*,  in  answer  to  the  supposition  that  the  present 
mi.,»it  have  been  printed  at  Granada,  because  it  bears 
the  arms  of  that  city,  says  :  "  Cette  conjecture  serait 
fort  ha/ardee,  car  les  memss  amies  se  trouvent  dans 
['edition  imprimee  a  Bale  en  1494."  What  we  find  in 
the  Basle  edition  (see  in/rtt)  and  in  the  present,  in  the 
form  of  an  escutcheon,  is  the  coat-ofarms  which  Fer- 
dinand holils  in  his  left  hand;  but  the  solitary  shield, 
which  is  so  conspicuous  on  the  verso  of  the  last  leaf 
of  this  No.  2,  is  not  to  be  found  in  the  f^erardus, 
nor  in  any  other  book  mentioned  by  bibliographers. 

Direct  reftrtmci  :  I  BihliuihtiU   Gitn-villiwia,  page    I  ;8,  where  the  date  of  "  1494  ur 
1495"  is  jsitibcd  to  the  above,  ".la  it  contains  the  same  wood- 
I       tuts  as  those  used  in  the  t'uurth  edition  ot'  Bernardinus  de  Olpc," 
which  is  totally   inadmissible,  as  the  latter  lacks  three  woodcuts, 
to  say  the  least. 
Hain,  Repriiorium,  No.    54yi. 
N.  V.  .Syl/,icii,  page  sliii;   letter  .\. 
GKAtssr.,  Vol.  II,  page  218. 
Niilfi  'jtt  C'ltumhui,  pages  I  18    I  to;  lettei  B. 


'   A'/Vd    ,/(    Critiofitri   Colombo  ,•    Milan, 
8vo,    1818,    pages    167    174,    md    French 
translation,   Paris,   8vo,  1824,   paries  103 
141. 

*  Kor   December,  1816,  p.iges  505    11. 

'  The  tolliiwing  description,  copied  troiii 
a  manuscript  annotation  in  the  Brera  li- 
brary, and  which  betrays  the  hand  ot  an 
adept,  probably  that  ot  /.ucaria,  tulK  iden- 
tities the  copy  : 

■'Constat  toliolis  noveiii  in  8''  vel  4" 
parvo.  Fol.  prime)  recto  habeiitur  insignia 
Regis  Hisniniif.  cum  Inscriptione  Keg. 
Hispaniv  i  cod,  verso  tabula  enhibens 
Oitanitiim  Jaiirm,  Fol.  1''  rect<i  Kpistohe 
initiuin  cum  titulu  supra  tel.ito  cui  pra-- 
mittuntur  hxc  verba  char.  nuj.      Ut   In- 


iulii  Inventii.  Eodem  ful.  1.  verio  tabu- 
la exhibent  Insulani  Hyspanam.  Fid.  3. 
recto  ..equitur  Epistola,  eodem  verso  tabula 
eihibens  InsuUs  Feriundam,  Isabellam, 
tCK,  Fol.  4.  scijuitur  textus.  Fol.  5.  recto 
Aeratur  tabula  exhibens  (keaniium  c/jsiem. 
e-.)d.  .ersi.,  uti  A  t'.il.  6°.  sei|uitur  textus. 
Fol.  7°  verso  tabula  exhibens  Insulam 
Hyspanam.  IJeinde  sequitur  textus  usque 
ad  t)"'  t'ol.  rectum  quo  F;pistola  absolvitor 
absque  ulla  nota  typograph.  char.  est.  Go- 
thicus  nilidus.  Linea  in  qualibet  pag.  17. 
Desunt  custode.i  d  numcri  paginar.  K'nI. 
I"».  1'".  3".  ic  4'",  priT  se  (erunt  signa- 
turat  i,  ij,  iij.  Tabula:  ligno  exculpta-,  sed 
satis  elegantes.  In-'iales  liter*  pictar." 
*  Mar.ufi,  Vol.  ,        ,\.  |6j. 


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Hihliotheca  Americana. 


493- 


3.  cohVMKvs  icnRisTopnF.R)-(L  ISpiftoIa  <!ff)r(ftofor( 
'ifToIom :  ruf  rtais  noftra  multum  tirtrt;  TiclL^nfuUis 
Jntiir  Uipxa  (f^angpm  ntiper  inuftifit.  ^D  (luais  prr= 
(Hilren||Ua»  ortauo  antra  mcnfr  aufpirii«  r  rre  (n= 
ulrtfffimorum  jf rrnantii  ||  ar  H^rlifabrt  H^ifpanlaiji 
iUgfi  m(ffu»  furrat :  ati  Ittaanifirii  tiflm||a^at)rlr= 
(rm  :Sanrl)rfit :  roruntem  frrrniffimorum  liUgum  JTe^ 
fau-llradu  miffa:  iH^m  %t\\txoS\m  at  littrratus  bir 
ILranDrr  trr  (Tofro  af)||ll)ifpano  itiiomatr  in  latinii 
roumit:  trrtio  Ivalrft  /Mali.  |«.rrrr.||.rri(i.  |Jon= 
tifiratufit  aicranliri  Scvti  anno  )i)rimo.|| 

Colophon  : 

(T  Jmprcffit  Komc  i£uri)ariu»  argcntrufii  ans 
no  Tiftl.  lifl.rrrr.Kiii.ll'^ 

*^*  Sni.  410,  three  immimlitTcd  prinicil  leaves  uiul  one  lilaiik,  forty 
lines  in  a  full  page. 

(Private  Lilir.iiv,  New  Vurk  .iii<l  I'r.iviilrin  f.) 


rifir 


;  (  HAfN,  Rfperl'jiiiim,  Vol.  1,  I'. in  11,  \iif.r  I75. 
■   MiiRi>«,  Uiitoria  Jfl  Nuffu  MunJii,  |i,i(;i:  7. 
I  NAVAHnrrr,  C'i/r:Jo>:,  Vul    1,  p.ij;r  176. 

Hihlidthttii  (!rfnti//iarni,  pajji'  I  ^X. 

TruNAUX,  Hihlihih.  .•{miritaiiir,  Ni>,   ^. 

A|i|ii-n.|ix  til  N.  V.  Sy/l,i,io,  (UKf  xlv  ;  Iftli-i   I). 

My^rj  en  Ciilumhui,  y\fif  111;  letter  C 

Bhunki,  V'iI.  II,  <i>l.   164. 

(iKArisr,  Vol.  II,  |>.i(!i-  T^,  >t.ite-,  tint  the  i ii|>v  ii'  the  AmtiriKi.in 
llhrjrv  laikn,  in  the  title,  the  Wl>rll^  i«/>i(j  danjrem.  We  h.ive 
ex.iniineil  fiuir  mpies  cpiiraell,  Jinl  reail  the  ilesi  ri|itiiili  ni  tive  iiioie, 
hut  without  <hiiiivrilii)|;  sui  li  .111  oniissioii.  'I'lie  only  hu|<|>o<.eil 
v,iii.ition  is  ill  : 

nooiic's  Lonil.  C.it.il  ,  Nu.  17S,  wh<rie  iheie  \\  .1  nieiitinn  iit  .1  topy 
allege.l  to  li.ive  the  .l.iti'  |itinle.|  "  14VI,"  .ind  whiih  we  ihitiU  to 
he  onlv  the  .ihove  with  the  l.iM  li^uie  ell.i.  e.l  or  hliirred,  wliiih  is 
not  a  very  uiininmion  ileviie  on  the  pirt  ot  lert.iin  liooknejler!. 
to  find  a  re.nlv  iiiiikel  tor  their  ware 


*  ^itg/i(e  !  Letter  t'roin  Christopher 
C^olom  :  to  whom  our  .i^e  tiwetfi  iiiiuh  : 
loncernin)!  the  M.imls  ot  liiijia  heyoii.t 
the  Ganges  retently  iliseovereil.  In  ihe 
tcartii  of  whicli  he  wan  sent  right 
months  ago  under  the  auipiies  and  at 
the  eiprnsr  of  the  most  inviiuilile  So\  ■ 
eieijjni.  (if  tht    Spaint,  AVri/oii/x,/ and    lia 


hfllii  :  addiessed  10  the  iiolile  lord  (lilliiirl 
•Siiiiiifi,  Treasurer  of  the  nxist  >ercne 
Soverei|;Ms :  uhiih  the  liheral  .xni  learned 
man  l,ejn,lfr  ,{e  Cum,  traiivjated  from  the 
S{  inikli  iliom  into  Latin,  the  thiid  day  of 
the  I  aleiiiis  ot  Ma\,  I4<y5;  ihe  Vear  One  ot 
the  I'ontihiate  of  Aleiaiidei  VI.  Printed 
at  Konie  by  Euchnrius  Silbei,  A    \i.  149]. 


an: 


Hihliothecii   .Inii-rifanci.  1 9 

4.    coi.vMBVs  (cnRisroi-HORirs)    (T  I£pift0la    ithtiUO-     1493* 

fori  iTolom  :  nil  rta»  noftra  multtt  Urbrt:  Urll  S«==  '  "  " 
fuUs  Jiiliir  fupra  <?^angrm  nuprr  inufti».  HH  qua» 
prnirrn  ||tia«  ortauo  antra  mrnfr  aufpiriijj  r  crrin= 
uirtiffrmov  ,if  rvnani  r  II  IkHlifabrt  |k)ifpaniav  Wrgtt 
miffuB  furrat :  ati  magnifirum  Uftm  ||  OlSabrirlrm 
5<anrl)i»  rovuuDf  frrcniffimov  Urgum  ilTrfauranfill 
miffa :  quil  nobilift  ar  littrratu«  bir  ILranHer  Ur 
(Tofro  at)  ?l>ifpa  II  no  ibionuitr  in  latinum  rdurttit 
tmio  Ual's  Ittaii.  Hil.rrrr.jriii  II  ^Jontifiratu«  airts 
anUri  i^rvti  anno  primo.ir 

*^*   Sm.  4to,  siitf  iinno  ,tut  loo,   fuiir   leaves,   thirty    lines  in  a   lull 
page.      No  watcr-ntark. 

|'ii\.iti'  Library,  New  York  .mil  I'rovidemr.  'I'lii'  mil) 
ollici  Kifiio  kiiiiwn  4rr  in  tlir  British  Musruiii,  tlir 
Mtinuli  K'lv.il  l.ilir.iry,  .iikI  in  tin-  inllriiiuri  nt  j  Kri-nih 
jm^trut.) 


Uittit  rtffrmtn:  |  Fos»i,  Bihiicih.  Mjfliuhfiki,  Vni.  i,  icil.  561. 

I'an/>ii,    ^intiiilti     I'yf't'K't    V"'-     "1     I'-'l!"'     544i   JJ'f't'i"''     i'     '" 
I       I'Liiiiuk. 
I'AM'ti  I  irni,    DiittriaiKjnif    fif,%-    117;    nn    iKe    jullniiil)    ii>    the 

t.iiiiHii^  Djiii  li  |>h)>iiiji>,  I*.  (>.  Hrn>lur. 
Hain,  Rrfrin.riiim,  Vul.  1,  I'.nt  it,  No.  (.^tif  [ lu  pi u  ^4X91. 
ttihlribtia  llrhni.iiia,  I'jit  \\,  No.  H^7,  *' liouriit  with  ihii  Mr  bcvrrjl 

(..jtiii  (lr.ition<,  jirintrit  .it    Konir  jl  thr  vnA  ol   ihi-  hltrrnth  irn- 

tmy.   Kioni  C'jr'lin.il  Kc-ih's  hbrjry." 
Ui/illclitij  llirniilliiina,  fi^v   I  5II. 
'I'liiNAux,  llil'Jii.ik.  ,imiii,jinf.  No    1 
BiiuNri,  Vol.  II,  lol.   1(14. 
(iHAiair,  Vol.  11,  |U(.'r  23.H. 
'^ro^!>    I'.itjiogiir,  iXfi^,  No.   4.      NiilMitlr)t.in>liii|j    thr   higli    prite, 

llii'  i.imlo^iir  u.i^  st.itirl)  out  iliii    ihrri'   Mere  •,ryrn  J|>|>li>  Jtioiis 

lor  tlir  |iUt{urrtr. 
.^|>penili<  to  N.  V.  Xy/laii'f,  |Mgr  ilv  ;  Irlirr  C,  .mil  in 
Nilfi  OH  Co/umtiui,  p4|;r  laij  Irttn  t) 


'  jlnftliii  :  1,1'ttci  troMi  ('hii^lo|>hri  ('<> 
Itini  :  to  whom  out  .if,f  owrth  niiiih  ; 
lomrrnini;  thr  hbmla  ot  Inilij  licyoii'l 
thi'  (i.in);f>  ictriitly  disiovrrnl.  In  llir 
>rjr>  h  ut  whiili  he  wjs  trnt,  uildrr  thr 
.ius|'ii.i'»  jnd  Jl  the  r<|<rnkr  ol  ihr  nioit 
inviniililr  .Soviiiij!iii  oi  ilir  Si'iiiii,  AV' 
i/in.in,/    jn<l      I'.ihrlia  :     .i>lilir>-i'il    to    ihi- 


noble  lont  ISiihntI  Saiikii,  Treaiurer 
I  the  a.iine  most  ^erelU'  Monjiihs  : 
which  the  noble  .mil  Ir.iinnl  nun  l.t- 
•injfr  .|e  t'o-i o  (ijii^litej  Ironi  the  S|un 
iih  iilioiii  into  I.Jlin,  the  third  djy  ol 
(he  ulrndi  ol  Mjv,  I493.  The  Ye.ii 
one  ol  ihr  l'ontih>.ate  ol  Aleundcr 
VI 


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20  Hibliotheca   .Imericnnd. 

I493<  5.     COLUMBUS  (CHRISTOPHER)— Recto  of  the  frsl  leaf : 


\ 


)iartflu0  in  ciipo  oatUarM  > 

Rd'to  of  the  secotiil  leaf: 

Cviflold  Cbriflofurt  Coi 

lorn :  rut  rtas  nfa  multfl  trrbrt :  tir  Jnfulis  intiir 
fupra  <Bangrm||nuprv  inuciitis;.  Hti  quas  prtquirf? 
Tja»  ortauo  antra  mrnfr  ait  ||  fpiriis  r  rrr  intiirtif:: 
fimi  ,if  rrnanUi  l^ifpaniantm  i{rai»  iniffitsHfitrrat : 
ati  magnifiru  liiu  i^ap1)ar(rtn  !i«an.risi:  rittfUf  frte^ 
mfftllmt  Urgi»  ^rfanraritl  in  if  fa :  ()Ui1  notiUst  ar 
Ifatus  bir  xllultirrlllir  ifTofro  a1)  ll^if^ano  iDromatr 
in  latina  ronurrtit :  trrrio  ^V%  \\  jillaii.  jiil.rrrr.Kiti. 
liatifiratuis  Hlrxtititi.  bi.  Hnno  prtino.H 

In  fine  : 

€i)riftoforus  (Toloin  i!!>rranr  rlaffis  ^Srrfrrtuis. 

*^^'-  Sm.  410,  line  tirino,  bui  printed,  like  the  following,  bv  Guyot 
Marchant,  as  it  bears  the  imprint  ot'  the  Champ-iiaillard. 
Four  leaves,  including  the  title  ;  thirty-nine  lines  in  a  full 
page.  The  woodcut  representing  Guyot  Marchant's  mark, 
which  we  reproduce  in  N(j.  6,  is  not  in  this.  On  the  verso 
of  the  tirst  leaf,  a  woodcut  representing  the  angel  appearing  to 
the  shepherds. 

(Private  Lilirary,  F'roviJsnce.) 


'  .V».».'>.r;  Lrttcr  roncerning  the  l>l.inHs  tlir  most  invinciblr   King  <it' Sp.iin,   Ftr- 

nev.U  .tiscovrrcd.      Printed  Jt  P.iri^  ii'  ihr  Jin.inil :    .idilressed  tii  tlie   ni)ble  lord   Ra- 

Chinip-GjilUrd.  fi/iae/ \w.\ii  ;   Treasurer  ot  the  sJtne  moit 

Letter     fnim    Chriitophrr    Colotn  ;     Icp  serene  Kiiig  :  which  the  noble  jnd  learned 

V. horn   iiur   jge  oweth   much:   concerniin!  mm    Mliu>:.lfr   de    Co>co   translated    f'ron) 

ihr  Ii|jnd>  tif  India  beyond   the   Ganges  the  Spanish   idiom   into   Latin  :  the  third 

leccntl)    dixovered.       In     the    search    ot'  day  ot  the  c.ilerid -ot' Mav,  1493.      Of  the 

which    he    wa»    lent    eight    months    ago  I'ontilicair  ot  Alexander  VI,  the  Vear  one. 

under  the  aiupices  and  at  the  eipense  ot'  '   Hkin^i,  Vol.  11,  col.  164. 


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Bibliotheca  Americana. 


21 


;  intiic 

ucrat : 
t  fcrcs 
lilis  ac 
rom&te 
rr.xriii. 


bv  CJuyot 
-CttiilltirJ. 

in  a  full 
t's    mark, 

the  verso 
bearing  to 


Sp.iin,  fVr- 
[>!>'  lord  /la- 
ic same  mint 

and  learned 
livl.itcJ  from 
\\  :  the  third 
Lj.  Ol  the 
Ihe  Year  one. 


This  copy,    which  originally   belonged   to   Ternaux' 

(although  it  is  mentioned  neither  in  the   Raesdel  Cata- . 

logue  nor  in  the  Bibliotheque  //mericaine),  is  supposed  to 

be  the  only  one  known;  but  a  pamphlet'  which  we  have 

just  received  from  I'aris  leads  us  to  the  belief  that  the 

Imperial  library  in  that  city  likewise  contains  this  No.  5. 

The  said  pamphlet  professes  to  give  the  text  "d'apres 

la  rarissime  version  latine  conservee  a  la   Bibliotheque 

Imperiale;"  and  we  see  from  the  transcript  that  the  first 

line  in  the  title  reads  :   "  Epistola  de  Insults  tie  Nouo  re- 

pertis"  and  that  it  also  contains  the  subscription  at  the 

end.     The  reader  will  notice  that  the  first  line  in  No.  6 

reads  "  Kpistola  de  insulis  nouiter  repertis,"  while  it  omits 

altogether  the  closing  subscription  :    Christoforus  Colom 

Oceane  clnssis  Prefectus. 


H93« 


Uirea  re/fifrnf) 


I  St»v».N8,  /fmeriitiN  Bihlioj^raphti,  |U(!c  67. 
I   Hhloihul  N.r^feii,  Nd.  filS. 

I  Khkht,  Vol.  I,  |).n;e  ^^i,  tor  this  or  the  following,  a<  they  are  the 
onl\    ■inis  which   have  the   word    riptriii  initead  of'  in-vtnlii  in 
rhc  tiist  tith-. 
Appendix  to  N.  V.  Syllacn,  pagei  xlvi-xlviij  letter  E. 
A'.rci  '(n  Co/umhiis,  page  123  ;  letter  K. 


*  Llttrf  df  Chritloplie  Culomh.  Traduiie 
fill-  Lutien  lit  WojKv ;  I'.iri>,  X\n,  iSfii; 
44  pp.  It  is  to  hi'  ri-greltr,!  that  llu-  "Co 
mite  d'.^rchcoliniie  Anuritairif  de  l-'rante" 
— wh.itcver  that  ij,  and  imdn  who.-c  auspi- 
n's  that  reprint  lias  lieen  puMished — >himlil 
not  hivi-  endeavored  to  explore  the  Bibli- 
otlit'i|ut'>  Inipi'ii.ile  and  M.i/aiint',  ^^hich 
certainly  contain  raiilirs  nlaliii):  to  Anicri- 
can  bil>li(igraph\,  an.l  the  drsiription  of' 
which  would  have  given  -onir  value  to  iheii 
'•  appendice  hihliographii|iic."  I'lic  tian- 
lator  of"  the  Columbus  letter  in  ihe  Kdinh. 
Rtfiew  tor  December,  1S16,  't.ites  (page 
?lo),  after  describing  tin-  Brer.i  :  "  We 
have  seen  ihret  other  copif.s  in  the  Krencli 
King's  library  at  I'aris."  M.  de  Ro.'.ny's 
pamphlet  I  although  very  impert'eit  M  a 
bibliographical  cuntribulion,  as  it  does  not 
even  give  the  number ot  pages,  and  nrglect- 
to  mention  the  woodcut)  enable,  u-.  to  ai - 
count  tor  one;  but  what  m-  the  other 
two '  We  also  beg  leave  to  c[>rrect 
some  .Uight  mistakes.  The  Oilex  •/if/i- 
maliiui   (('.  e.    Odiit  Oip/omjti,!,   Cnlombo- 


Amniiitno)  was  not  publiihed  at  "  GtHtve," 

but  at  Cienoa ;  nor  does  it  contain  the 
Journal  of  Columbus,  to  which  M.  de 
Rosny  imagines  the  great  navigator  alludea 
when  he  writes ;  "  /lor  it  unhmujuxfui 
ifi  in  hfji  tibstro  itinett  ^fitit  iri'venta'auf 
ailmoneitni."  'I'he  only  traces  of  that  valu- 
able journal,  unfortunately  abridged  by  Las 
Ca^as,  uhich  we  could  tind  outside  of'  Na- 
vairete  { Colfit  irjii.  Vol.  I,  pagei  I-I75, 
and  in  the  Fr.  tr.insl.,  Vol.  11,  pages  1 
3381,  is  in  a  volume,  II. iw  very  scarce,  and 
which  deserves  the  honor  of  a  reimpreiiion  : 

/Y  I'eii'.nal  Nii-raiive  1/  lie  l^o\;igti  0/ 
C'lumhui  10  /Jmtriiit^  tram  ,1  .Manuuript 
I  e,  fully  dhco-vneii  in  Spain.  TranilaltJ 
/lom  llif  apaniih  |  by  the  late  Samuel 
Kettell,  at  the  suggestion  ol  the  learned 
hirtorian  of  Spani.'^h  Literature). 

Boston,  Xvo,  l8i-,  pp.  303. 

As  to  Hernaldei'  Hiitoria  Jl  lot  Reyti 
Ciloliioi,  it  has  been  printed.  We  have  a 
copy  before  us,  which  beats  the  imprint  of 
"Oraiiada,  Inipiinia  \  libreria  de  U.  Joie 
Maria  ?.amora,  iXs^i"  *  V"'*-  4'"  (edited 


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21  Bibliotheca  /fmericana. 

14.93*  ^*   COI.VMBUS  {CHRISTOPHER)— Redo  of  the  first  leaf: 

jSp^loIdt)einriil^0noiii 


Reito  of  the  leeond  If, it': 

(fEptfloln  Cl)rt|1tofort  Con 

lorn:  riti  rtais.  n!a  multu  Drbrt:  lir  :iinfuii»  intiir 
fupra  <SVangrm  ||  uuprr  inurntig.  an  quas  {jctquitc- 

by  Miguel    L^rurnlt'  \   Alcintarjii   hut  it  Anf^liit:  Epitllr  iDiuciiiing  tlic  itUnda 

doei   nut  "cuntervc  en  pjttir,"  or  at  4II,     newly  ditinvrrrd.     i'rintrd  4t  Parit  in  ihc 
the  Juurnal.  Chini|i-UiilUrd. 


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lia«  oftauo  antra  mcnfe  au||fplrfi«  r  cte  intt(rt(f«mi 
.jFrruanUi  l^ifpaniarum  Urgld  miffua  II  furtat :  aH 
magjiifiru  Trft»  Uapt)arlrm  Santb :  eiufoc  fcrrnlfs 
fill  mi  Urgt»  ^rfaurariu  miffa :  qua  nobilis  ar 
liatu»  bit  aiiaHrrllUc  *fofro  at)  ?l!ifpano  itiromate 
in  latinil  ronurrtit :  tmio  kl's  II  fBaij.  itt.rccr.icUj. 
i3dtl(icatu»  HlcxaHri.  bi.  anno  primo :  || 


"493- 


(juarto,  <inf  ti/iHo,  thirty-nine  lines  in  a  full  page.  On  the 
vcrsi)  (tt'ihc  title,  vvoculiiit  representing  the  angel  appearing  ti> 
the  shephcril>.     'I'hc  sulisirip'i(jii  at   the  enJ   of  No.  5,  viz.: 

(Tliriftoforus  tTolom  a!>rranr  rlaffja  ^Drrfrrtus, 

is   oinittctl   in   this.      In   other   respects    it    is    precisclr   like 


No. 


I  Privitc  Librjr>',  Pr<ividrni.c.     Tlie  mlicr  two  copies  known 
are  in  the  BoJIeijn'  jnd  Untllngi-n  I'nivenily  librarirt'.) 


"  Guvot-Marchant  qui  demeurait  au  Chanip-Gaillard,  grand  hotel 
dc  Navarre,  avait  choisi  pour  marcjuc  les  deux  notes  (s/,  /ii,  au  has  de 
desi)UL'lles  etaitfnt  les  initiales  G.  M. ;  puis  la  foi  representee  par 
deux  mains  j(jintes,  pour  tairc  allusion  a  ces  paroles:  So//)  fida  luffi- 
(it,  tirecs  de  I'liymne  Piinj>t  Lingua." 

jTaillandiii*.  I 


Dirfd  rf/'ntHiti  ;  |  SitVKNt,  Amn'ua»  Bihllcgrj/i^tr,  (Mge  66,  tor  .1  well-executed  fac- 
I       simile  ol'  ilie  wiKxicut  on  thr  reverie  ut'the  title,  which  ii  alio 
I       given  in   Ap|>»n<lii   to  N.  Y.  Syl/acio,  with  J  lieicription,  pa|c« 
«lvii   «lviii ;  letter  F,  ind 
Nilfi  OK  Columhui,  p.ige  ii-j,  >lto  under  the  letter  F. 
Hislcriial  Nug/^eii,  No.  617. 
Bkunkt,  Vol.   II,  cul.  164. 
C>iiAii>t,  Vol.  II,  pj^e  118,  lor  thit  or  tor  No,  ;, 


Itlieitlanili 
liris  in  the 


'  Citaloguc  lit'  l/r.  Doucf'i  Co/lnion. 
p.ige  70. 

*  This  closes  the  series  of"  the  sepjrjte 
filition-i  known  to  exi.it  ot*  Cwco'j  version 
ot'  the  1,1'tter  ot'  Columbus  10  Sanchex. 
Some  others  may  vet  i  ome  ti  Mp-h',  4« 
none  ot'  the  gre.ii  It.ilian  lihririn  hjve 
ever  licen  thoniughlv  sean  he.l  to  that 
riTett.     \Vc  jrc  ot  opinion  tlut  the  lol- 


lectionj  ot'  the  monntic  ordem  in  Italy 
cont.iin  not  only  vjlu.iblc  manuicripti,  but 
printed  biKiks  of  the  utmost  rarity  and  im- 
port inte  to  the  Mtudent  ol"  .American  hij- 
lorv  i  and  a  printed  Spaniih  original  of  the 
Letter  perhaps  still  lies  concealed  in  their 
unenplored  archives, 

•  Rnumr   iiil-jrifut    \n    Mimmifi    Jt    U 
S.itit  Jet  .Imijuairii,  Vol.  xiii. 


\n 


I4  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1493.  7*     COl.VMBUS  iCHmSTOPHER)-SbtfiOXpOX     (JUf     U     (|IIC 

aurcig  platfr  Hr  !a  grantilltoirtoria  qur  nfro  frftor  me 
i)a  HaDo  rn  mibnair  ||  bo»  rfrriuo  rfta  por  la  (fl  fai)= 
rrns  romo  ?  xrrui  HHias  pafr  alas  Jntiiai^  rOla  ar= 
maHa  qur  lofillu||ftnifimo!9  Utv  r  rrtmanfog  fr= 
ftorr»  mr  tiirronlllionlirijo  fallr  mup  murlias  ^f\a» 
pobIatia»  ron  gftr  fiju  ||  numrro.  p  )irlla»  totias  i)r 
romaDo  pofrffifi  pot  fus  altrtasllronprrgon  ij  bAHrra 
rral  rftfDiDa  v  nO  mr  fur  rOtraTiir1)o :  || 

The  ahovt  givei  the  fint  eight  linti  of  the  plaquette ;  the  following 
the  liiit  three: 

lEfta  rartarmtio  OTolon  a  Irfrriuano  IDrrarion  || 
Hrlas  Jflas  1)allaDa!9  rn  las  :i)nliias,  iTontrniHalla 
otta  ZSrfus  aimas.ll 


*  * 


Sm.  410,  without  title,  colophon,  date  or  printer's  name;  tour 
leaves,  thirty-two  lines  in  a  Rill  page.  Water-mark  :  an  open 
hand  with  a  kind  ot  small  Hower  o\er  the  third  Hnger. 

I  AmbrutijM  Library.  | 


\ 


The  preceding  six  luimbers  represent  the  separate 
editions  known  of  the  Latin  translation  of  the  letter 
addressed  by  Columbus  to  Raphael  Sanchez  on  his 
return  in  149^];  but,  us  we  have  observed,  the  great 
navigator  wrote  immediately  afterward,  and  sent  at  the 
same  time  another  letter  directed  to  Luiz  de  Santangel, 
the  "  Escribano  de  Racion,"  or  Steward  of  the  House- 
hold of  Aragon,  to  whose  exertions  he  was  mainly  in- 
debted for  the  approval  of  the  project  by  Isabella,  and 
who  had  himself  supplied  either  out  of  his  private  purse 
a  portion  of  the  expenses  of  the  expedition  (/',V/t'«',  herd. 
Columbus^  Herrera,  Mufioz),  or  the  whole  from  the  Ara- 
gonese  revenues  deposited  in  his  hands  (Prescoit'').  The 
Spanish  text  of  the  letter  to  Santangel  had  been  made 


'   D#    *««»   «rif  J    London,    4to      l6ll;  '   /•>>  ./;n<i«./    and  liiih.'i'u.    Vol.  II,  fd^r 

Hirjniblc.  llS. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


»5 


on 

le  great 
t  at  the 
itangel, 
-louse- 
ily  in- 
a,  and 
purse 
t'erd. 
ne  Ara- 
The 
made 


known   through  Navarrete',  who  possessed  a  transcript     1493' 
from   the  original,  which  in    1818   was   still   deposited 
among   the  archives   at  Simancas.     It  was  not  known 
then,  or  even  suspected,  that  this  important  document 
had  been  printed  before.     In    1852   the  Baron   Fietro 
Custodi,  the  learned  continuator  of  Verri's  Storia  di  Mi- 
lam, died,  bequeathing  to  the  Ambrosian  library  his  own 
private  collection.     This  valuable   library  contained   a 
plaquette,  heretofore  undescribed,  which  was  supposed 
to  be,  even  by  the  erudite  Prof.  Longhena,  the  original 
Spanish  text  of  the  letter  to  Sanchez,  known  now  only 
through   the   miserable   Latin    version    of  Aliander  de 
Cosco,      This   plaquette,    however,   was   the   letter  ad- 
dressed to  Santangel,  giving  a  text  very  similar  to  that 
already   published  by   Navarrete,  but  containing  some 
variations  of  a  curious  character  as  regards  dates  and 
names.      For  instance,  we  find   "en  xxx  dias  pase  a  las 
Indias,"  whilst  the  Navarrete  codex  gives  "en  veinte 
dias,"   both    of  which    numbers  are   erroneous,  as  we 
know  from  the  paraphrase  of  the  journal  made  by  Las 
Casas*,  that  Columbus   reached   the  Western  lands  in 
"  setenta  y  un  dias."     At  the  end  we  find  :  "  Esta  carta 
embio  Colon  a  lescriuano  Deracion  de  las  Islas  halladas 
en  las  Indias,  Contenida  a  otra  Desus  Altezas,"  instead 
of  Navarrete's  rendering :   "Esta  carta  envio  Colon  al 
Escribano  dc  Racion  de  las  islas  halladas  en  Irs  Indias 
e  [en  ?]  otra  de  sus  Alte/as,"  which   does   not   make 
sense,  whilst  the  Ambrosian  text  indicates  that  the  San- 
tangel letter  was  written  subsequently  to  the  Sanchez, 
as  it  was  inclosed  within  the  latter. 

This  rarissime  plaquette  is  printed  in  a  kind  of  semi- 
gothic  type,  of  the  roughest  character,  resembling  none 
of  the  incunabula  which  we  have  been  able  to  examine. 
The  fact  alone  that  the  text  is  in  the  Spanish  language 
authorizes  the  belief  that  it  was  printed  in  Spain.  The 
printers  of  the  fifteenth  century  were  not  accustomed 


/ol.    11,    IMKI- 


.r  '  Colecehn,  Vol.  I.  [Mges  167-75. 


•  Coleccion,  ptgtt  I-166 


f 


26  Ribliotheca  Amertcana. 

[4.07.  ^°  print  works  in  languages  different  from  that  of"  the 
country  in  which  they  lived.  For  instance,  Rome  was 
a  great  centre  and  mart  for  typographical  productions, 
and  the  number  of  books  which  were  puhhshed  in  that 
city  from  the  time  when  Swcynheim  and  Pannartz  re- 
moved from  the  monastery  of  Subbiaco  (1467)  to  com- 
mence printing  in  Rome,  to  the  last  book  printed  by 
Eucharius  Siloer  in  1509,  is  considerable,  yet  Audif- 
fredi's  masterly  Catalogus  historico-criticus  Romanorum 
editionum  Stecu/i  Xy  does  not  contain  a  single  work, 
printed  in  any  other  language  than  Latin  or  Italian. 
Then  why  print  abroad  a  small  pamphlet  in  Spanish  ? 
The  skill  of  the  Spanish  printers  was  quite  adequate  to 
a  work  of  that  description.  The  only  Spanish  incuna- 
bula which  we  have  been  permitted  to  examine  (Orliz* 
TrataiioSy  No.  10)  is  really  a  beautiful  specimen  of  the 
typographical  art.  On  the  other  hand,  it  is  evident, 
from  the  appearance  of  the  plaquette,  that  it  was  issued 
to  answer  the  wants  of  the  moment,  and  in  an  off-hand 
manner.  For,  as  Humboldt  justly  remarks',  such  were 
"  I'ctat  et  la  voie  des  communications  litteraires  rela- 
tives aux  evenements  Ics  plus  graves  dans  I'espace  de 
quinze  on  vingt  ans  anterieurs  a  la  mort  de  Vespuce," 
that  the  only  means  employed  to  propagate  important 
news  **  etaient  des  Icttres  ou  de  pctites  notes  manu- 
scrites  rapidcment  nuiltipliees  par  des  copies,  quelque- 
fois  imprimees,  le  plus  souvent  sans  indication  de  la 
source  d'ou  elles  etaient  tirces." 

But  where  in  Spain,  and  by  whom  ?  Let  the  fortu- 
nate bibliophiles  who  possess  books  printed  by  Posa, 
Gumiel,  or  Moros  of  Barcelona,  Johannes  of  Burucs, 
Ungut  and  Stanislaus  Polonus  of  Seville,  or  de  Villa 
of  Valencia,  decide  the  question.  With  only  one  Span- 
ish incunabula,  and  that  three  hundred  miles  away,  we 
consider  the  undertaking  impracticable. 

We  were  in  hopes  that  the  water-mark  might  prove  a 


*  Kitamiit  Crillfnt.  Vol.  iv,  page  71. 


Bibliotheca  Amertcana. 


47 


guide      True  it  is  that  the  open  hand,  with  something    1 493. 

resembling  a  stalk  and  leaf  or  flower  over  the  third  finger  ^i^hi*. 

— the  usual  symbol  of  faith  given  or  kept'' — which  is 

rather  conspicuous  in  the  plaquctte  before  us,  is  also  to 

be  found  within'the  woof  or  warp  of  the  paper  used  by 

Cromberger  of  Seville  in  his  edition  of  Enciso's  Suma 

de  Geo^raphia  (ijiq),  and  of  Oviedo's  Historia  General 

(15J5),  which,  it  the  mark  had   been  exclusively   used 

by  Cromberger,  would   locate  the  plaquette  at   Seville 

between  the  jears   1 5 1 1   and    1 546' ;  but  we  regret  to 

say  that,  in    this   instance,  the   water-mark   cannot   be 

relied  on.     Not  only  do  we  find  an   identical   one   in 

many    of  the    Caxtons",    but    it    is   quite    frequent    in 

Netherlantl    manuscripts    which    bear    dates   extending 

from  1445  tu  the  end  of  the  sixteenth  century' 

The  t»"xt  of  the  Ambrosian  plaquctte  was  first  pub- 
lished three  years  ago'  .  It  is  also  in  two  late  Amer- 
ican publications".  The  Marquis  D'Adda  has  lately 
reproduced  the  entire  letter  in  fac-simile". 


de  la 

fortu- 
Posa, 

|i  urges, 

c  Villa 

Span- 

/ay,  we 

>rove  a 


UirKI  riJ'irtH<fi!  I    "  /.»«.  ^»fgr.  Ji  C'ilttf.  Colomtoi  MlUn,  l8mo,  iHftj,  ('p.  7»-85. 
\  Hiiteriial  Maguaini,  New  Vuric,  liir  Se)'tcmbcr,  1864. 

I  "  Nttti  en  Columfiui;  New  Yurk,  till.,  186;,  pjgci  S9  100.  Ltt- 
liri  ef  Columhui  Jeuribing  kii  firii  vcgagi  It  lit  IflUirn 
Himufktrt i    New  Vutk,  ^lu,  1 865,  yA^et  l-r. 


'   MoNTrAtCONJ    <l^l«y  SoTHtlY. 

'  Wliiih  .ur  llie  ycari  between  wliiili 
the  lirat  tlruile  ol'  I'rier  Martyr  jnil  the 
Onxeno  de  /Imadit  were  printeil  .it  Seville 
by  Jjcohui  Crumlierger,  Curumberger,  or 
Kromberuer — I  be  latter  work  by  hii  »uc- 
cetiuri  1  tew  yejra  utter  liis  >leatli. 

'  yi».  t  Dturiflicn  of  Oriliiin,  n.  'I,  ; 
Dirtiiorium  Saterdiium,  n.  i\.\  Ftilivatii 
Liter,  148];  Knyj^kl  of  the  Toure,  148]. 
See  SiiTHiRY,  I'rincipia  Tyfogmpkiaf  Liin- 
Jun,  All.,  |8;8,  Vol.  111,  plate  ^i. 

*  The  dlicovery  i>l'  that  rrmarkable  pU- 
quette  ibould  pruinpt  the  librarian  t>t  the 
Genua  I'nivrrsity  library,  which  i»ntaini 
t'urty-live  thousan-l  volumei,  gathered  e>- 
cluslvi'ly  tiuni  the  Litturian  cloister),  and 
the  keepers  of  the  Bourbon  Museum  at 
Naplet,  who  are  now  the  custodiani  ot'  all 


the  libraries  which  had  been  icattercd 
among  the  Neapolitan  convents  before 
they  were  suppreiied  in  1807,  to  explore 
their  numerous  and  undisturbed  alcovei, 
fur  the  purpose  of  eihuniing  bibliograph- 
ical treasures,  which,  in  all  probability, 
arc  lott  tu  them  as  well  as  tu  the  <iutside 
world.  Fostl's  and  Audill'redi'i  catalogue! 
leave  us  but  little  hope  of  Itnding  Colum- 
bian incunabula  either  In  the  Afaglia- 
hedi  III  Caianalaf  and  the  fact  that  Mo- 
relli  was  the  librarian  of  the  Saint  Marc 
at  Venice  is  aliu  a  sure  indicatiun  that 
\ery  little  in  the  way  of  undescribed 
works  relating  to  America  is  likely  to  be 
discovered  in  that  curious  library,  which 
was  founded  by  Petrarch. 

"  l.tllera  in  linj^ua  Sftagnuola  d.  d.  Crif 
if/ort  (i),\mho  i   Milan,  4to,  1K66. 


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28  Bibliotheca  yimericana. 

1493.  8.  DATi  {GiuLiANO)-(L  O^uefta  t  la  i)Bftoria  trella 
=  inuentiae  tieUe  WSt  Jfolc  til  arannaria  In  Jn  || 
iriane  extracte  tiuna  IBpiftola  tri  (ttiji^tftofano  coloms 
to  r  per  tneffer  <@iu  ||  Uano  Hati  tratiucta  tie  latino 
in  uerfi  nlgari  a  lautie  e  gloria  tiella  cele  ||  ftiale 
eorte  r  aconfolatione  iella  (ffittiftiana  rellgiae  t 
apregti^A  ^^l  ina  ||  gnifico  (Ktattalier  mifer  <Biouan= 
filippo  Belignamine  tiomeftico  familia  ||  re  tiello 
facratiffimo  He  tri  ^pagna  OttriftianifHrno  a  tii. 
xxb.  tiortoiire.  ll  iE.cecclxxxxiii.  ||* 


In  fine  : 


JoannesJ  trictwsj  jFlorentinusj. 


*^*  4to,  sine  loco  (Florence),  four  unnumbered  leaves  in  a  com- 
plete copy,  two  columns  in  a  page,  text  in  black  letter.  The 
present  copy,  which  is  the  only  one  known,  lacks  the  second 
and  third  leaves. 

(British  Museum.) 


Giuliano  Dati  was  born  at  Florence  in  1445,  *"^  ^^^^ 
Bishop  of  St.  Leone,  in  Calabria',  in  1524.  "  D'antico 
Langue,  insigne  Teologo,  Canonista  famoso,"  &c.*,  au- 
thor of  several  poems',  which  are  among  the  rarest  of 
bibliographical  curiosities.    The  present  is  one  of  them. 


*  Anglki :  This  is  the  history  of  the 
discovery  of  the  Canary  [  ?  ]  islands  in  the 
Indies ;  extracted  from  a  letter  of  Christo- 
fano  Colombo,  and  translated  from  the 
Latin  into  the  common  language,  by  Mr. 
Juliana  Dati,  for  the  praise  and  glory  of 
the  celestial  court,  and  for  the  consolation 
of  the  Christian  religion,  and  at  the  re- 
quest of  the  magnificent  Chevalier  John 
Philip  Delignamine,'!'  private  secretary  of 

f  "  Mtssere  Gio.  Filippo  dal  Legiiami:  Cavalier 
Menineso.  Medico  di  Sixio  iv."— Canccllieri  Di'i- 
itrt.  *' Correctcur  ct  successeur  dc  Ulricli  Hatin, 
k  Rome  dc  1479  a  1481.'' — Brunei,  Diction,  dt 
Bibliographii  Catflolii/ui,  p.  894. 


the  most  sacred  and  Christian  King  of 
Spain,  October  25th,  1493.  John,  alias 
the  Florentine. 

'  Ughelli,  Italia  Sacra,  Vol.  ix,  p.  711. 

'  Negri,  Istoria  degli  Scritt,  Florent.  j 
Ferrara,  fol.,  1722,  p.  305.  Melzi,  Bih- 
Ihgrafia  dei  romanai  e  poemi  c.  italiani  f 
Milan,  8vo,  1838,  p.  308. 

'  PocciANTi,  Cala/.  Script.  Florentini ; 
Florence,  4to,  1589,  p.  103.  Hain,  Re- 
pertorium,  No.  5963,  sj.  Audiffredi, 
Catalog,  edit.  Roman.  Sac.  xv;  pp.  322, 
327,  328,  329,  421,  for  description  of 
other  poems  by  Dati. 


L 


Bibliotheca   Americana. 


29 


It  is  not  a  translation  of  the  first  letter  of  Columbus,     i493' 
but  only  an  ottava  rima  paraphrase,  in  sixty-eight  stan-  _-=—. 
zas,  the  first  fourteen  of  which  contain  a  fulsome  and 
vapid  preamble,  praising,  among  others,  the  infamous 
Alexander  Borgia.    The  following  is  a  fair  sample  of  the 
style  of  that  mitred  sycophant : 


Hfta  ri)i  poteffl  leggere  nel  futuro 
Tmno  a^lexatrto  tnagno  papa  fexto 

Uella  fua  creatione  ilmotro  puro 
gtato  a  ciafcuo  aneffti  tnai  molcfto, 

^  Helptimanno  fuo  il  magno  nturo 
d)e  nfi  glipuo  neffuno  tSUx  infefto 

fexto  alexatiro  pappatorgia  ifpano 

ittfto  nel  giulricate  ^  tucto  tumano.t 


The  reader  will  find  in  our  Additions  {infra^  page  461) 
a  description  of  another  edition,  dated  1495,  which 
preserved  in  the  Trivulzio  Library  at  Milan. 


is 


Direct  references:  (  Tiraboschi,  Sioria  delta  Letteralura  Italianaf  Florence,  8vo,  1809, 
J        Vol.  VI,  page  871. 
I   Brunet,  Vol.  II,  col.  164. 
Costabili  Catalogue;  Paris  or  Bologna,  1858,  page  208,  No.  2365. 
Appendix,  to  N.  Y.  Syllacio,  page  lii. 
■      •  •  Notes  on  Columbus,  pages  240-6,  for  text  and  translation  of  the  first 

fourteen  stanzas. 


f  Anglk'e : 
"But  in  the  future  men  shall   read   the 

fame 
Of  Alexander,  Sixth  of  that  great  name ; 
Of  his  election,  pure  of  every  guile. 
Hailed   by  the   world   with  an  approving 

smile. 
Walled  about  from  his  first  papal  year 
With  general  love  and  reverential  fear ; 
Benign  to  all,  pope,  Borgia,  Son  of  Spain, 
In  judgment  righteous,  and  in  heart  hu- 
mane I" 

Columbus  it  introduced   in    the   four- 


teenth stanza,  in  a  kind  of  doggerel,  of 

which  the  following  is  a  version : 

"  Back  to  my  theme,  O  Listener,  turn 

with  me 
And  hear  of  islands  all  unknown  to  thee ! 
Islands  whereof  the  grand  discovery 
Chanced  in  this  year  of  fourteen  ninety- 
three. 
One  Christopher  Colombo,  whose  resort 
Was  ever  in  the  King  Fernando's  Court, 
Bent  himself  still  to  rouse  and  stimulate 
The   King    to   swell    the   borders   of  hit 
State." 
(For  the  text,  see  infra,  p.  31.) 


3° 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  * 

g,    DATI  (GIULIANO)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

Clalettcni  ddlifoledkBaaoiiatonuoiiaiiKticeilRedillaagDa* 


^  jj^jX'dj^j^jJiS^'^idjdjSi^SjjiiSldidjSij^d^  X 


In  fine  : 


C  Finita  laftoria  della  iuetione  del  ||  le 
nououe  ifole  di  canaria  idiane  trac  |1  te  duna 
piftola  dixpofano  colobo  &||p  mefTer  Giu- 
liano  dati  tradoda  di  la  ||  tino  i  uerfi  uul- 


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gari  allaude  della  ce  ||leftiale  corte  &  aeon-   1493. 

folatione  della  |1  chriftiana  religione  &  ap- 

ghiera  del  |1  magnifico  caualiere  mefler  Gi- 
oua-  II  filippo  del  ignamine  domeftico  fa-  || 
miliare  dello  illuftriflimo  Re  difpa  1|  gna  xpi- 
aniflimo  a  di.  xxvi.  dodo-  ||  bre.  14.93.  II 
Florentie.  II 


%*  4to,  four  unnumbered  leaves,  including  the  title,  upon  the 
verso  of  which  the  text  commences  in  two  columns ;  ten  full 
stanzas  on  each  page,  none  of  which  are  broken  as  in  No.  8. 
Text  in  Roman.  Only  copy  known.  There  are  material 
differences  between  this  edition  and  the  above.  Here,  we 
find  a  woodcut,  the  text  is  in  Roman,  the  spelling  is  different, 
and  the  text,  even,  presents  variations.  Yet  according  to  the 
colophon,  only  one  day  elapsed  between  the  publication  of 
Nos.  8  and  9. 

(British  Museum.) 

The  following  is  the  stanza  in  which  Columbus  is 
first  introduced : 

Hor  vo  tornar  almio  primo  tradato 
dellifole  trovate  incognite  a  te 
in  qfto  anno  prefente  qfto  e  ftato 
nel  millequatrocento  novatrate, 
uno  che  xpofan  colobo  chiamato, 
che  e  ftato  in  corte  der  prefedto  Re 
ha  molte  volte  quefta  ftimolato, 
el  Re  ch'cerchi  acrefcere  il  fuo  ftato. 


Dirtct  riferencet ; 


Majok,  Select  Ltttert,  pages  Ixxiii-xc,  for  the  text. 

QuAumo,   Della  storia  e  d.  ragioni  (togni  poeii ;    Bologna,   4X0, 

'739-5*.  Vol.  IV,  page  49,  and,  after  him, 
Cancellieri,  Disiertaxioni,  page  153,  gives  the  date  of  mcolxxxxt. 
Brunet,  Vol.  II,  col.  165. 
Graisse,  Vol.  IV,  page  183. 
Libri  Catalogue,  1847,  No.  1253. 
Appendix  to  New  York  Syllacio,  pages  lii-lv. 


f    • 


^4  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1493.  10.     ORTIZ  {ALONSO)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf : 


f 


00  tratal»00  hd  ^ociov 

U^MIIf II  Vi  IW  II  res.llEratatio  confolatodo 
ala  princefa  tre  Portugal.  1 1  Jtem  bna  oration  alos 
reses  en  latin  s  en  romance  II  Jtem  tiost  cartas  nt^s 
faieras  a  loss  recess,  bna  que  emtio  II  la  cittiaif  la 
otra  el  catiltio  tiela  sgleHa  tre  toleto  II  Eratatio  cons 
tra  la  carta  trel  prottonotario  tre  lucena.H* 

In  fine  :  .      » 

jFue  imprimitio  enla  II  mug  notle  r  mug  leal  cii)= 
Iran  Ire  3e  II  uilla,  por  ixt»  ^lemaneis  copanerosi.  || 
^nel  ailo  trel  feftor.  IB.cccc.rciij.  || 

%*  Folio,  one  hundred  numbered  leaves,  printed  in  black  letter 
on  two  columns,  ending  with  the  printer's  mark  of  Johannes 
Pegnizer,  Magnus,  and  Thomas,  the  three  Germans  above 
mentioned,  viz.  :  an  oblong  square  with  dark  ground,  and 
a  white  circle  containing  the  letter  T  and  the  word  ALE- 
MANES. 

(Private  Library,  Boston.) 

This  collection  of  orations,  treatises,  and  epistles, 
from  a  canon  of  Toledo  not  less  famous  for  his  big- 
otry than  for  his  rhetoric',  contains  one  of  the  earliest 
allusions*  to  the  rediscovery  of  the  Western  hemisphere 


*  Anglice  :  The  treatises  of"  Doctor 
Alonzo  Ortis. 

Treatise  concerning  the  wound  [in- 
flicted] on  the  King  [by  an  assassin  at 
Barcelona,  Dec.  7th,  1492]. 

Treatise  to  comfort  the  Princess  of  Por- 
tugal. 

Also,  an  oration  [addressed]  to  the  So- 
vereigns, in  Latin,  and  in  the  vernacular 
language. 

Also,  two  epistles  sent  to  the  Sovereigns, 


one  by  the  city,  the  other  by  the  Chapter 
of  the  church  of  Toledo. 

Treatise  against  the  letter  of  the  pro- 
thonotary  De  Lucena, 

Printed  in  the  very  noble  and  faithful 
city  of  Seville,  by  three  Germans  in  part- 
nership.     In  the  year  of  our  Lord,  1493. 

'  TicKNOR,  History  of  Spanish  Litera- 
ture, Vol.  I,  p.  379. 

*  Navarrete,  CaUccion,  Introduction, 
p.  LI,  note. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


2Z 


by  Columbus  in  1492.     It  is  to  be  found  on  the  verso    1493* 
of  folio  XLiii,  in  the  oration  addressed  to  Ferdinand  and  — ^—b 
Isabella  after  the  fall  of  Granada ;  and  is  as  follows : 

"(tta  fon  Uigttamen-llte  m  bofotros  flncipes  glo= 
tlofost  pot  II  tan  fclices  tawitas  los  oiojs  19  toTio^ll 
log  mottaneis  entiereffatios  ra  Tiigno  II  mrrcfdmiento : 
potqno  as  gcntc  tanlltartiara  aun  q  fca  enlas  inHias 
wmollta.  qisaUc  Wos  tan  profpcros  bmcillmiltos 
fea  sBHO^ante:  aun  q  parrfrall  floss  fines  folog  t\ 
ocinlte  ^fpafta  co  ||  bia»  bictorias  rrfplanUe fcer.  Ca 
Blojstllfinest  liela  tierra  Ija  falino  tal  fonibo  I8||b!a 
fottaleta  q  ta  pobiUo  fcrir  las  o-Hrcias  Tie  totios 
los  liittientes:  ponien-||tJO  pauor  alos  moraborcs 

be  toba  la  tietta."t 

-«■ 

Diutt  reftrenctt ;  (  Antonio,  Bibliotkeea  Wtpan.  Nvooj  Vol.  i,  page  39. 
•j  Panzer,  Annatti  Tjpogr.,  Vol.  it,  pajge  337. 
I  Caiallero,  Dt  Prima  Tjpcgr.  Hisfan.,  Rome,  4(0,  1 793,  page  45- 
Mendez,  Tjfogr.  EipaKola,  Vol.  1,  page  194. 
Hain,  Reptrtorium,  Vol.  n.  Pan  i.  No.  1x109. 
Bibliotheca  Hcieriana,  Part  ti.  No.  S635. 
Bronet,  Vol.  IT,  col.  243. 
Graeue,  Vol.  T,  page  56. 
Notn  en  Columbus,  page  1 55. 


he  Chapter 
the  pro- 


1 1.  cARVAjAL  {bernardin)—^Qt2^ao  fuDcr  oraB- 
ftanda  folenni  obedientia  San-||  dliflimo. 
D.  N.  Alexandro  Papae  vi  ex  parte  Chri-|| 
ftianiffimorum.  domino^  Fernandi  &  He- 
lifabe  (Jtc)   Re||gis&   Reginae   Hifpaniae ; 


troducuon, 


J 


■)•  Anglici :  Behold  !  the  eyes  of  all  mor- 
tals are  justly  fixed  upon  you  with  merited 
approbation,  O  Glorious  Princes !  for  there 
is  no  nation  ever  so  barbarous,  even  in  the 
distant  Indies,  that  is  not  aware  of  your 
triumphs,  so  prosperous,  although  your  Tic- 


toric:<  seem  to  shine  in  the  remotest  limits 
of  the  Occident  of  Spain,  as  fT>'3>  the  ez- 
tremides  of  the  world  such  an  echo  of 
your  power  has  arisen  that  it  could  reach 
the  can  of  all  the  liTing.  striking  terror 
among  the  inhabitants  of  the  whole  earth! 


-  V^ 


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'493'  habita  Romae  inconfifto |1  rio  publico  per. 
R.  Patrem  dnm  Bernardinum  Car-||uaial 
Epm  Carthaginen.  die  Mercurii.  xix.  lunii 
Sa||lutis  Chriftian^.  M.cccc.xciii.  Pontifi- 
catus  eiufdemllD.  Alexandri  Anno  Primo. 
In  qua  fuere  quattuor  ce||lebres  Oratores: 
Nobiliflimus  dns  Didacus  Luppillde  Faro 
Galleciae  uicerex.  R.D.  GundifTaluus  Fer-|| 
nadi  Heredia  Archiepifcopus  Tarraconen. 
Idem.  D.llBernardinus  Caruaial  Epus  Car- 
thaginen. D.  lohan lines  Methina  Epifcopus 
Pacenfis.lj 

€  Vitulus  &  Leo  (imul  morabuntur:   & 
puer  paruu  II  lus  minabit  eos.     Efayae.  xi*. 

*^*  Sm.  4to,  for  size ;  signatures :  a,  ai,  aii,  aiii,  aiiii,  four  blanks  ; 
making  eight  unnumbered  leaves.  Sine  anno  aut  loco  (Panzer 
says,'  after  Audiffredi*  and  Denis,*  "  Besicken  vel  Silberi") 
Hain  ascribes  it  to  Plannck.4    No  water-mark. 

(Private  Libr.  New  York  and  Washington  city.) 

Bernardin  de  Carvajal,  a  Spanish  Cardinal  and  states- 
man', born  at  Palencia  about  1456,  died  in  1522  [Mo- 


*  ^nglici !  A  Sermon  on  the  solemn 
pledge  of  obedience  from  the  Most  Chris- 
tian Sovereigns  Ferdinand  and  Isabella, 
King  and  Queen  of  the  Spains,  to  our  Most 
Holy  Lord  th^  Pope  Alexander  VI ;  de- 
livered at  Rome,  in  a  public  assembly, 
by  the  Reverend  Father,  Lord  Bernar- 
din Carvajal,  Bishop  of  Carthagena,  on 
Wednesday,  June  19th,  A.  D.  1493,  and 
of  the  Pontificate  of  the  same  Lord  Alex- 
ander, the  first  year ;  being  present  four 
celebrated  orators,  the  very  noble  Lord  Ui- 
dacui  Luppi  de  Faro,  Vice-Roy  of  Oal- 


licia  ;  the  Rev.  Gonzalvo  Ferdinand  de 
Heredia,  Archbishop  of  Tarragona,  the 
same  Lord  Bernardin  Carvajal,  Bishop  of 
Carthagena,  and  John  Methina,  Bishop  of 
Badajoz.  The  calf  and  the  lion  will  lay 
together,  and  a  small  child  will  watch 
them.     Isaiah,  xi. 

'  Annaltt  Typogr.,  Vol.  11,  page  506. 

*  Catal.  Romans  edition.  Stec,  xv,  page 


^'i 


Sufflemema  ann.  typ..  Part  11,  page  530. 

*  Reperiorium,  No.  4545. 

*  GuicciAKDiNi,  Iitoria  d" Italia ;    Pisa, 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


3S 


rert*)  or  1523  (Antonio'').     It  was  while  filling  the  office    1 49 3. 
of  Spanish  Embassador  to  the  Court  of  Rome  that  he  ^_i_ 
delivered  the  above  oration*,  which  contains  one  of  the 
earliest  allusions'  to  the  rediscovery  of  the  New  World.     ' 
Several  of  Peter  Martyr  d'Anghiera's  letters  are  ad- 
dressed to  him.      He  was  excommunicated  by   Pope 
Julius  II.     The  copy  before  us  formerly  belonged  to 
the  Duke  of  Sussex,  and  was  purchased  at  an  auction 
sale  in  New  York. 

The  passage  begins  at  the  sixteenth  line  of  the  verso 
of  the  sixth  leaf,  and  is  as  follows : 

"  .  .  .  .  fubegit  quoc^  fub  eis  xps  fortuna- 
tas  infulas.  qua^  fertilitate  mirabile  efTe 
conftat.  Ofldit  &  nup  alias  incognitas  ver- 
fus  Indos  qu^  maxime  ac  plene  oibgrnun- 
di  pciofis  existimant :  &  xpo  p  regies  iter- 
nuntios  brevi  pariturae  credunt.":!^ 


Direct  references :  (  Panzir,  AnnaUi  Typogr.,  Vol.  il,  page  506, 

-!  AuDirrRiDi,  Calal.  Romante  edition.     S^ec.  xv,  page  3 1 5. 
I  D1NI8,  SufpUmenta  ann.  typogr.,  Part  II,  page  530. 
Hain,  Repertorium,  No.  4545. 
Laire,  Specim.  Hist.  Typogr,,  page  175, 
Bibliotheca  Grenvilliana. 
Cancillieri,  Dissertass.,  page  189. 
Notes  on  Co/uniu>,  page  170. 


page  5 30, 
Via}    Pisa, 


8vo,  1819;  Vol.  Ill,  page  177.  Mariana, 
Hisloria  Gen.  de  EipaKa  ;  Madrid,  fol., 
1678,  Vol.  II,  page  183. 

*  Dictionnaire  Hist.,  Vol.  11,  page  172. 

'  Bibliotheca  Uispania  Nova,  Vol.  i, 
pace  115. 

"  Canckllieri  quotes,  in  connection 
with  that  Embassy  of  Obedience :  Ciac- 
coNius  [yita  et  res  gesttr  pontif.  et  cardi- 
nal}  Rome,  4  vols,  fol.,  1677,  Vol.  in, 
page  170].  Palazzi,  or  Palatius  [either 
his  Gesta  Pontifcum,  Venice,  fol.  1687,  or 
his  Fasti  Cardinalium,  Venice,  fol.,  1703, 
Vol.  II,  page  470],     Cardella  [Memorie 


star,  de'  Cardinali;  Rome,  4to,  1791,  Vol. 
Ill,  page  253.] 

'  Navarrete,  Coleccion,Vol.  i,  Introd., 
page  XLi. 

X  Anglice  :  And  Christ  placed  under 
their  [Ferdinand  and  Isabella's]  rule  the 
Fortunate  [Canary]  islands,  the  fertility  of 
which  has  been  ascertained  to  be  wonder- 
ful. And  he  has  lately  disclosed  some 
other  unknown  ones  towards  the  Indies 
which  may  be  considered  among  the  most 
precious  things  on  earth;  and  it  is  be- 
lieved that  they  will  bu  gained  over  to 
Christ  by  the  emissaries  of  the  King. 


jtf'  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1493.        12.  DE  ALMEIDA  {FERDINAND)- Ad  Alcxanclru. 
VI.  Pont.   Max.   ferd  :   deHalmeida   electi 
Eccl'ie  Septift .   &  Serenifs :  ||  lo.  II.  Regis 
Portugallie  oratoris  Oratio.|| 
[in  4°.  par,) 

Primo  folio  habetur  Epistola  dedic.  Auctoris  ad  Joannem  II.  Folia 
in  sumtna  sunt  IV.,  &  character  est  Rom.  elegans  Besicken.  Extat 
in  Biblioth.  privata  SS.  D.  N.  PII  PP.  VI. 

(AoDrr»Di'.) 


The  present  seems  to  be  the  oration  delivered  on  the 
occasion  of  the  Embassy  of  Obedience  on  the  part  of 
Portugal.  This  Almeida  may  be  the  F.  Ferdinandus  de 
Almeida  mentioned  by  Antonio*.  At  all  events,  it  is 
concerning  this  No.  I2,  as  well  as  No.  11,  that  Cancel- 
lieri  exclaims:' 

"  Qual  contrasegno  di  gratitudine  potevano  mai  daire  que'  due 
Sovrani,  proporzionato  a  benefizio  si  grande  [/.  e.,  the  re-aiscovery 
of  this  country]  compartito  ad  entrambi,  col  tratto  il  piii  magnanimo 
del  piu  generoso  disinteresse,  senza  essersi  pensato  da  Alessandro  VI, 
alia  minima  riserva,  o  Possesso  in  America,  per  la  S.  Sede,  benche 
egli  da  loro  stato  scelto  per  Giudice  di  si  gran  Controversia  f  C\  h 
rimasta  memoria  della  solenne  Obbedienxa,  prestatagli  in  pubblUo 
Conciitoro  da  Ferdinando  d" Almeida,  Ambasciadore  di  Giovanni  II, 
e  da  Bernardino  de  Carvajal,  a  nome  di  Ferdinando,  e  d*  Isa- 
bella*." 


'  Catalog.  Romana  edition.  Siic,  xv,  page  as  the  umpire  in  that  great  controversy } 
315.  The  remembrance  has  been  preserved  of 
Bibliotheca    Hisfania   Nova,   Vol.  i,  the  Solemn  Obedience  sworn  to  in  a  pub- 
page  367.  lie    Consistory    by    Ferdinand   d'Almeida, 
'  Dissertazioni,  page  189.  Ambassador  of  John   II,   and   Bernardin 
*  Anglici  !    What    mark    of    gratitude  de    Carvajal    in    the    name   of  Ferdinand 
could    those    two   sovereigns   give    which  and    Isabella.       Cancellieri  cites  in   con- 
should  have  been  proportionate  to  the  great  nection    either   with  this  Portuguese  Em- 
benefits  divided  between  them  by  a  trait  bassy  :    Novaes  vi,    876,  which  we  sup- 
of  the  most  magnanimous  and  liberal  dis-  pose     to     be    the    work    mentioned    by 
interestedness  ;    the    thought  even   never  Meusel    {Biblioth,    Hiitor,,   Vol.    v,   Part 
entering   Alexander  VI's  mind  to  reserve  11,   page   l66),   under   the  title   of:    an- 
the  least  possession  in  America  for   the  tonii  gonsalvi  db  novais  (Doctorls  iuris 
Holy-See,  although  they  had  selected  him  canonici   et   Examinatoril  synodalii  Epii- 


in  con- 

lese  Em- 

Iwe  8up- 

jjned    by 

V,   Part 

jf:  AN- 
loris  iuris 
nil  EpU- 


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nimrumiiffi  figum  iX  m- 

Ena 


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I)mtt0 

nimrt ,^ 

agt-iibu0  abimn0  mnM:ii 

End  of  Colophon  on  verso  of  the  map  which  follows  leaf  ccxcix  : 

atj  Ittlltttitfl  autem  r  ptccest  prouiTroru  ciuiu  ^t^ 
UM  Sfttegerllr  ^etaftianl  feamermaifter  i)unc 
librum  tjominujs  anti)o  II  niug  ikotcrger  JHurenis 
terge  impremt.  Untititis  tame  bl  II  riia  mati)nnati= 
cl!8  pingentiirp  arte  peritimmisi.  imictaele  ||  tuolges 
mutt  et  toiltelmo  piefitjentourff.  quaru  foletti  acus|| 
tatimmatp  anlmaUuertione  turn  ciuitatum  tutti  lllufs 
trium  II  birotum  figure  inferte  funt.  aronfummatu 
autem  Uuotiefi-il  ma  menfig  JuUi.  anno  falutis  tt?e. 

1493-11 

*^*  Large  folio,  three  hundred  leaves  numbered  on  the  recto ; 
leaves  cclviiii,  cclx,  cclxi,  blank  on  both  sides,  but  num- 
bered. These  blanks  were  left  for  the  purpose  of  annotations 
(see  verso  of  leaf  cclviii).  The  six  unnumbered  leaves,  con- 
taining Je  Sarmacia  regione  Europe,  come,  in  this  copy,  im- 
mediately after  leaf  cclxvi,  which  contains  the  following  sub- 
scription : 

(ttompleto  in  famofiffima  j^urembergenfi  urbe 
©peri  II  Ire  i)8ftorii»  etatum  muntii.  ac  tiefcriptione 
uriiium.  fe-lllix  imponitur  finis.  ©oUectum  ijreui 
tempore  Euxilio  tiorto  II  ris  tartmani  ^cibetiel.  qua 

'     copatus   £lvensis)  Rclajao   do   BUpado  de         *  Anglkii  Register  of  the  books  of  the 

Elvas,  t  de   todos  oi    Prtlados   que   a   It  chronicles  and  histories,  with  figures  and 

ouu  tempo  governarai  aqutlla  Igreja.  Lit-  illustrationi   from    the    beginning   of  the 

boa,  1635.  fbl.  world. 


38 


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^^^'  dnttpntgfimo  nonagefimoterdo.  tJie  quarto  II  menf(» 
Sunij.ll  .       . 

Two  thousand  two  hundred  and  fifty  woodcuts,  by  PleydenwurfF 
and  Wolgcmuth  (Albert  Diirer's  master),  representing  portraits 
and  cities  of  a  fanciful  character.  Large  map  of  central  Europe 
filling  the  last  two  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


The  name  of  Martin  Behaim  is  so  closely  connected 
with  the  controversies  which  sprung  up  towards  the  end 
of  the  last  century  regarding  the  real  discoverer  of  the 
Western  World  and  the  Straits  of  Magellan,  that  it 
explains,  if  it  does  not  authorize,  the  insertion  of  Sche- 
del's  Chronicles  in  our  work.  The  claims  of  Behaim 
concerning  the  discovery  of  the  Straits  of  Magellan,  as 
set  forth  by  Postel',  Chauveton^  Metellus',  Herrera*, 
Wurzelbau',  Lochne/',  Schwarz^,  MoerP,  Bielefeld',  and 
Fuerer'° ;  or  even  to  the  Western  World  prior  to  Co- 
lumbus, as  asserted  by  Riccioli",  Wagenseil",  Wuelfer", 
Omeis'*,  Stuvenius",  Doppelmaier"^,  Cellarius'^,  and  the 


'  Coimographica  diiciplina ;  B>i!ii:I,  4to, 
1561;  Leyden,  l2mo,  1636;  and  de  Uni- 
versilale  /Her;  Paris,  4to,  1 563,  1 564; 
Leyden,  141110,  1635. 

'  In  his  Latin  translation  of  Benzoni, 
Geneva,  8vo,  1578,  1581,  1586,  1600; 
idem  in  the  French,  Geneva,  1579  and 
1589,  8vo,  copied  in  De  Bry's,  Part  iv, 
and  Hulsius,  Vol.  vi. 

•  America,  sive  novus  orbit}  Cologne, 
fol.,l6oo,and  o/iai/ Wagenseil,  P<r<i  libror. 
iuvenitium  Synopi ;   Nuremb.,  8vo,  1695, 

*  Dicadai  de  /as  Indias ;  Madrid,  fol., 
1718-30.     Decad.  11,  Chap.  19. 

•  Vraniet  Norica  Basis  astron. — geogr,  f 
Nuremberg,  fol.,  1 697. 

*  Commentat,  de  Ananasa  ;  Nuremb., 
4to,  1716. 

'  Dissert,  de  Columnis  Herculis ;  Altdorf, 
4to,  1749. 

"  Oratio  de  meritit  Norimb.  in  Geograph., 
apud  Museum  Noritum  ;  Altdorf,  410, 1 7  5 9. 


'  Progris  des  /lllemands  dans  les  Sciences, 
Sec;  Amsterd.,  iimo,  1751. 

'°  Oratio  de  M.  Behaimo,  apud  Museum 
Noricum. 

' '  Geographia  el  hydrogr,  reformata } 
Bologna,  fol.,  1661. 

"  The  promise  made  by  Wagenseil,  aa 
mentioned  by  Leibnitz  (Duten's  edit.. 
Vol.  VI,  page  261),  seems  to  have  been 
carried  out  in  his  Sacris  Parentalibus 
B.  G.  F.  Behaimo  dicatisf  Altdorf,  fol., 
16S2. 

"  De  Maioribus  Oceani  insutis  j  Nu- 
remb., 8vo,  1691, 

'*  Dissert,  de  Claris  quibus  d.  Norimb  j 
Altdorf,  4to,  1708. 

'"  Dissert,  hislorico-critico  de  vera  novi 
orbis  invent }  Franckfort,  8vo,  1714. 

"  Histor.  Nachricht  von  Nurnberg.  Ma- 
themat.i  Nuremb.,  fol.,  1730. 

"  Historia  universalis  ;  lena,  limo 
1709. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


39 


ienorant  and  presumptuous  Otto'*,  but  who  were  victo-    1493* 
riously  refuted  by  Tozen",  von  Murr*",  Cladera",  and  - 

Chilian/",  rest  on  a  map  of  the  world,  and  an  extremely 
curious  globe",  manufactured  by  Behaim  himself,  toward 
the  year  1492  (both  of  which  are  still  in  the  possession 
of  his  descendants  in  Nuremberg)  ;  and  on  an  extract 
from  Schedel's  Chronicle,  which  is  as  follows : 
yerso  ofleafccxc : 

annis  tlo  pofteriodtuis  b't  anno  tiflil.  1483-  io= 
i)ane»  fcti's  pottugalie  rex  altiffimi  bit  cortris  rertast 
galeast  oitus  ati  bictu  neccffatiiia  Inftruxit  eaf(?  bltra 
colunafii  i)ctruli8  atr  meritiie  bctfus  cti)iopia  inueftis 
gattttost  mifit.  13referit  aiit  i)is  patronos  truo»  Ja= 
cotu  canu  pottugalcnfcm  r  martinu  tof)emu  i)omine 
germanu  ejc  nurmtctga  fupiotis  getmanie  tie  tona 
i)ot)cmorfl  Camilla  natu.  ijoiem  injg  in  rognofcentro 
fitu  terre  peritiffimii  mariftp  pacientiffimtl.  Ol^uitp 
pi)olomei  logitutiineB  r  iatitutiines  in  occiticnte  ati 
bngue  expetimeto.  lOgcuaq^  nauigatione  nouit.  ^\i 
tiuo  bono  trcorii  aufpicio  mate  metitjionale  fultantes 
a  littote  no  longe  euaganteis  fupato  citculo  eclnoxiali 
(ft  altetu  otbcm  excepti  funt.  bbi  i^iss  ftantibus  oti= 
enti  betfus  bmbta  ati  metitii?  r  tiexttft  ptoiciebat. 


•jero  novi 

|7>4. 

herg.  Ma- 

lamo 


"  Letter  to  Benj.  Franklin,  and  Mt- 
moir  on  the  Detection  of  America,  in  the 
Transact,  of  the  Americ.  Phil.  Society  ; 
Philadelphia,    4to,    1786,    and    London, 

1787. 

"  Der  wahre  unj  erste  EntJecker  der 
neuen  fVelt  (a  capital  work);  Goetting., 
8vo,  1761. 

"  Diplomatische  C  scbicbie  des  Portug. 
Berubmten  Ritters  Martin  Behairm ;  Nu- 
remb.,  8vo,  1778,  and  Hiitoire  Diploma- 
tique du  Chevalier  Martin  Behaim,  iSjc.  ; 
Strasb.,  8vo,  1802,  from  which  we  borrow 
nearly  all  of  the  above  references  to  works 


which  we  have  never  been  able  and  never 
expect  to  procure. 

"  hvesiigacionei  Historical  ;  Madrid, 
4to,  1794. 

"  Geichicite  des  See/.  M.  Behaim ;  Nu- 
remb.,  4to,  1853. 

"'  Copies  of  the  map  and  globe  have 
been  published  by  Doppelmaier,  De  Murr, 
Cladera,  GhlUany,  and  in  the  following 
works : 

Geographie  du  Moyen-Age;  Bruxelles, 
8vo,  1852.  Les  Monuments  de  la  Geo- 
graphic i  Paris,  fol.,  1865,  plate  xv  for 
the  Map  of  the  World. 


40 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


1493.  ^petuete  (gi!  fua  Cntmfttla  alifl  ortem  tarten?  no? 

=—=  bis  incognltfli  r  mtiltlsj  annis  a  nuU(»  i^  ianuenfibuia 
licet  fruftra  temptatti.  i^eracta  aUt  tmfii  nattlps 
tiottir  bicefimo  fexto  menfe  teuerfi  fiint  pottugalia 
pluribuis  ot)  calitifHrni  aetiis  patentia  mottuiis.'^ 

This  passage,  according  to  Gebauer's*^  faithful  summing 
up,  amounts  simply  to  this,  that  the  King  of  Portugal, 
Juan  II,  sent,  in  1481,  James  Canus,  a  native  of  Por- 
tugal, and  Martin  Behaim  of  Nuremberg,  with  some 
galleys  to  Ethiopia;  that  they  went  to  the  Southern  Sea, 
near  the  coast,  and,  after  crossing  the  line,  reached  the 
New  World,  where,  when  they  happened  to  look  to- 
wards the  East,  their  shadow,  at  noon,  appeared  on  the 
right ;  that  in  that  region  they  discovered  lands,  hereto- 
fore unknown,  which  had  not  been  searched  after  by  any 
people  for  many  years,  except  the  Genoese  [/.  e.,  An- 
thony and  Bartholomew  de  Nolle],  and  that  in  vain ; 
finally,  that  after  a  navigation  of  twenty-six  months 
they  returned  to  Portugal ;  and  in  proof  of  their  dis- 
covery brought  pepper  and  grana  paradisi — whatever 
that  is."^ 
••  However  interesting  this  passage  may  be,  we  scarcely 

need  add  that  it  is  only  a  spurious  interpolation,  as  it 
is  written  in  a  different  hand  in  the  MS.  of  the  Latin 
text,  whilst  it  cannot  be  found  in  the  original  manuscript 
of  the  German  translation  of  the  Chronicle  (No.  14), 
both  of  which  are  still  preserved  at  Nuremberg.  On  the 
other  hand,  the  passage  on  recto  of  fol.  xiiii: 

iSxtra  tteg  ptesi  orti :  qtta  t  pjs  trafiiocceanfl  Ites 
rior^  I  metitrie  q  for  artrorit?  nob'  incognita  f :  i  cui? 
finib?  antipotrcg  (abulofe  ijabitare  tricuntur, 

shows  that  the  author  of  the  Chronicle,  whether  we  call 


•*  That  passage  was  republished  in  /Eni-  "  Portugetische  Geschichu  von  den  iillet- 
A".  Sylvius'  De  Europa  sub  Friderico  III  ten  Zeilin}  Leipzig,  8vo,  1759,  page  123. 
imperat.)  Strasburg,  folio,  1685  and  1702.         "  Amomum  Mtleguetaf 


Bibliotheca  Americana,  41 

him  Hartmann  Schedel,  "  Medicus  Norimb."  (//«/«^  1493* 
Trithemu5'\  Gesner^^  Vossius^^  Fal>ricius^°),  or  the  Pope  === 
^neas  Sylvius  {Maresius,  SchmUius,  in  Mylius^'),  or 
Matthias  Doringk  [Oudin,  Sa/ig^''),  or  simply  one  of 
the  learned  men,  „  ^OC^getcrteit  IttCtttten/'  mentioned 
in  the  colophon  of  the  German  edition,  knew  nothing 
of  those  western  discoveries.  Yet  it  is  this  interpo- 
lation which,  with  acute  collectors,  would  perhaps  entitle 
the  Chronicle  to  a  place  in  the  Bibliotheca  Americana,  as 
we  must  view  the  passage  concerning  Behaim  in  the 
light  of  a  counter  claim  set  up  in  consequence  of  the 
news  of  Columbus'  return  and  discoveries. 


Direct  references ; 


"  Hain,  Repertorium,  No.  14508. 

"  Heumann,  in  Mylius,  Bibliotheca  anonym,  (ed.  of  i74o),JVol. 
II,  pages  147-9. 

ScHELHORN,  ^manit.  Lit.,  Vol  viii,  page  143. 

Freytag,  Analcct.  Lilt.,  page  825. 

Clement,  Bibliothique  curieuse.  Vol.  vni,  pages  343-4. 

Hellek,  Geschichte  der  Hohschneidekunit }  Bamberg,  8vo,  1823, 
page  71. 

Meusel,  Bibliotheca  Hiitorica,  Vol.  i,  Part  i,  page  93. 

Bibliotheca  Spenceriana,  Vol.  in,  page  255. 

Brunet,  Vol.  I,  col.  i860. 

Graesse,  Vol.  II,  page  139. 


:  call 


*'  De  Scripior.  Ecclesiast.;  fo\.  139  apud 
Clement. 

"  Bibliotheca  Univers.  ;  Friburg,  1583, 
fol.,  page  318. 

"  De  Histor.  Latin.;  page  573. 

"  Bibliotb.  med.  et  infim.  Lat. ;  Lib. 
IV,  page  133. 

"  Comment,  de  Script.  Eccles. ;  De  Dypt. 
yeter. ;  apud  Clement. 

*  Relying  upon  Rich  {Books  relating  to 
America,  1493-1700,  which  is  a  kind  of 
short  appendix  to  his  Bibliotheca),  we  con- 
sulted : 

ZACHARIAE   LILII  {|  VICENTINI  ||  CANONICI  || 

regvlaIIkis   or  II  bis    bre||  viarivm  Nfide, 


COM  II  PENDIO^  or  II  DINEQ..  CAP  ||  TV  AC 
MEM0||rATV  rACILLIMVMJJFOELIX  ET  GBA- 
TVS  LEGITO. 

Colofhon : 

iMPREssiT  II  Florentie  Antonius  Misco- 
minus  ||  Anno  Salutis  .m.cccclxxxxiii.  y 
Nonis  luniis. 

*^*  Sm.  4to,  1 30  leaves. 

(Harvard  Coll.  Libr.) 

We  are  sorry  to  say  that  we  found  only 
a  short  note  in  pencil,  to  the  effect  that 
the  work  shows  the  amount  of  geographical 
knowledge  immediately  preceding  the  voy- 
age of  Columbus. 


den  alies- 
Ipage  123. 


44 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


1 49 3 .  14.,  SCHEDEL  {HARTMANN)—{ 


litt^i^  bet  ^to-  nifen  tinb 

uttb  tiillinttf  fen  m  an- 
liegin  ber  meltliy  aitf 

blfe  ttfifere  ^rtt." 

Colophon  on  the  verso  of  leaf  cci.xu  : 

%xi^  gotUdjem  ietiftattb  enbet  fi(fi  alljie  bag  iui^  Hon 
ben  gefdjiditett  ber  alter  ber  toerUUbnb  bon  HefdireibuitD 
ber  Hertttnbtiften  bnb  nam§aflioiftett  ftett  fagenbe  burd) 
@eorgii|ttm  tAi  be^mals  (ofttngfdlreilier  ber  faiferlid)^ 
reidjftatt  9lnrtnlierg  auff  (atein  in  tentfi^  ||  gelira^t  bnb 
liefi^(o||e  nad)  ber  ge^nrt  @:rifti  ^Ijeftt  buffers  ^at)(anb0. 
an.ccec.feiij.  iar||ant  fnnften  iti%  bed  monats  &ctii(irig.|| 
9l(tU^ratto  fint  ^er^etne  (anbed.  ag.  alt.  | If 


*  * 
* 


Folio,  title  i,  nine  unnumbered  prelim,  leaves,  cclxxxv 
numbered  leaves,  two  leaves  for  a  map  of  Central  Europe, 
on  the  verso  of  which  there  is  a  colophon  different  from  the 
above,  which  we  omit,  because  the  last  two  leaves  are  want- 
ing in  the  copy  before  us,  but  which  the  reader  will  find  in 
Clement.     Plates  colored. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


•(■  Anglici :  Register  of  the  books  of  the 
Chronicles  and  histories,  with  figures  and 
portraits  from  the  beginning  of  the  world 
to  our  own  times. 

With  the  help  of  God  is  here  ended 
the  book  treating  of  the  histories  of  the 
antiquity  of  the  world,  and  of  the  descrip- 


tion of  the  most  celebrated  and  important 
places,  translated  from  the  Latin  into 
German  by  Georges  Alt,  at  that  time 
Secretary  of  the  free  city  of  Nuremberg, 
and  finished  October  15th,  A.  D.  1493. 
Perpetual  praises  to  him  on  the  high 
throne.     By  Alt.  ( r  ) 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


43 


The  present  work  is  only  a  translation  of  No.  \y  by  1493' 
Georges  Alt,  Alten,  or  simply  Georges  senior,  printed  «>».■ 
by  Anthony  Koberger,  December  23d,  1493. 

The  passage  relating  to  Behaim  (which  is  wanting  in 
the  original  manuscript  of  the  German  translation,  while 
in  the  Latin  codex  it  is  inserted'  in  a  different  hand- 
writing from  the  rest  of  the  work)  will  be  found  in  the 
present  copy  on  the  verso  of  leaf  cclxxxv. 

"  Cctte  edition  ressemble  beaucoup  a  celle  de  1493 ;  mais  seulement 
dans  I'exterieur.  Si  nous  eraminons  I'interieur  de  cette  Version, 
nous  y  remarquerons,  que  George  Alten  qui  en  est  I'Auteur,  ne  s'est 
pas  si  fort  gene,  qu'il  n'ait  abrege  le  Texte  Latin,  quand  il  le  trou- 
vait  a  propos :  &  qu'il  n'en  ait  retranche  ce  qui  ne  lui  convenait  pas." 

(Clement*.) 


Direct  rtftrencti : 


'  '  Bibliothlque  curieusc,  Vol.  vii,  page  348. 

Panzer,  Annalen  der  dltern  deuttch.  Lit.,  Vol.  i,  page  204. 
Freytao,  Analtcta  Lilt.,  page  815  ;  and  generally  the  authori- 
ties given  for  the  Latin  edition. 


15.     rERARDO  AND  C.  COLUMBUS— \n    laudcm    SCFC-  I494.* 

nifTillmi  Ferdinand!  Hispania^  regis^  Be- 
thi-licae  &  regni  Granatae^  obfidio^  victo- 
ria^ &  triuphus  Et  de  Infulis  in  mari  In- 
dicollnuper  inuentis.||f 


important 

I  Latin   into 

that   time 

luremberg, 

D.  1493- 
the    high 


•  The  MSS.  are  still  preserved  at  Nurem- 
berg.   See  von  Murr's  Diplomat.  Gtscbichte. 

*  We  find  (GsAEssE,  Vol.  11,  page  337, 
and  G.  B»unet,  Nouv,  Biogr.  Giner.,  Vol. 
XIII,  col.  156),  under  the  date  of  1494,  a 
mention  of  a  poem  by  Dati,  the  title  of 
which  indicates  a  reference  to  the  Oceanic 
discoveries,  via. : 

Detritote  unptrte  a  tuoi  tempi.  Finito 
el  secoTido  catare  dellindia,  &c.  ;  Rome, 
Besicken,  4to,  1494,  4II.,  fig. 

We  read  the  same  title  in  AudirtVedi 
(Roman,  edit.  Strc.  xv,  page  327),  but  with 
the  important  omission  of  the  first  line  : 
Deir  Inle,  &c.,  which  alone  imparts  to  the 
title  the  appearance  of  an  Americana.     Is 


it  a  continuation  of  our  Nos.  7  and  8,  or  a 
new  work  altogether  ?  M.  Brunet  of  Bor- 
deaux, whom  we  consider  one  of  the  most 
learned  and  trustworthy  of  bibliographers, 
says,  in  reference  to  the  poem  of  Dati, 
that  it  is  "  assurement  curieux  mais  il 
n'est  connu  que  de  titre,  et  il  parait  in- 
trouvable  aujourd'hui."  On  the  other 
hand,  Audiifredi  adds  to  his  description  : 
"  Extat  in  Casanatensi." 

•j-  Anglice ;  To  the  praise  of  the  most 
illustrious  Ferdinand,  King  of  the  Spains, 
Bethica  and  Granada  [of  the  latter  of 
which]  the  siege,  victory,  and  triumph. 
And  of  the  Islands  newly  discovered  in 
the  Indian  Sea. 


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Bibliotheca  Americana. 


14.94.        Then   full-length   portrait    of    Ferdinand,    differing 
Bs-s-—--—  somewhat  from  the  woodcut  on  the  recto  of  the  tenth 
leaf  of  No.  a. 

Rfcto  of  the  thirtieth  /(?/7/(sign.  dd  '') : 

P^  ^nfnlt0  nttp^r  inturntii^ii 

Epiftola  Chriftoferi  Colom  (cui  etas  nos- 
tra mul- 1|  turn  debet:  de  Infulis  in  mari 
Indico  nuper  inuen- 1|  tis :  ad  quas  perqui- 
rendas  octauo  antea  menfe  :  au-||spiciis  & 
^re  inuidiflimi  Fernandi  Hilpaniaru  Re-|| 
gis  miffus  fuerat)  ad  Magnificu  dominu 
Raphae-||lem  Sanxis :  eiufdem  fereniflimi 
Regis  Thefaurari||um  mifTa :  quam  nobilis 
ac  litteratus  vir  Aliander||de  Cofco  :  ab 
Hifpano  ideomate :  in  latinum  con-||uer- 
tit:  tercio  kalendas  Maii.  M.cccc.xciij.  Pon- 
tiii-||catus  Alexandri  Sexti  Anno  primo.|| 

In  fine  (verso  of  the  twentyninth  leaf): 

1.4.94.  Nihil  iine  caufa.' 

*j*  8vo,  thirty-six  unnumbered  leaves ;  the  Letter  of  Columbus 
filling  only  the  last  seven  and  a  half;  six  woodcuts,  evidently 
copied  from  No.  2.     Text  in  Roman. 

(Private  Library,  New  York,  Providence,  Washington  city, 
Harvard  Coll.  Libr.) 

The  first  part  of  this  work  is  simply  a  drama  on  the 
capture  of  Granada  from  the  Moors  by  Ferdinand,  and 
which  was  represented  at  Rome  in  1492*. 

'  Ncl/iittg  without  a  cause.     (Device  ot  "  Cancellieki,  Dissert.,  page  271,  adds 

Bergmann  de  Olpe,  printer  at  Basle.)   The     to  his  chaotic  note,  that  the  drama  '*  Fu 
rest  of  the  title  as  in  No.  2.  tradotta    in    Francese    con    I'Epigrafe,    /a 


Direct  rtfertnces  I 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


45 


Bibliotheca  Thotliana,  Vol.  vii,  page  223. 

MiusiL,  Bibliotheca  Hislor.,  Vol.  in,  Part  i,  page  260. 

Mencke,  Catal.  Jet  Historiem,  page  310. 

Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  vi,  No.  838. 

Bibliotheca  Grenvi/liarta,  page  73 1. 

N.  Y.  Syllacio,  Appendix,  page  xlviii. 

Ternaux,  No.  4, 

Brunet,  Vol.  V,  col.  1 1 29. 

Graesse,  Vol.  11,  page   228,  states  that  of  this  edition   "on  ne 

connait  que  2  ex." 
Bibliotheca  Brc/wnianay  No.  6. 
Notet  on  Columbus,  page  119. 
Basler   Buchdruckergeschichte,   page    129,   contains  an    interesting 

sketch  of  the  printer,  Johannes  Bergmann  de  Olpe. 


1494. 


l6t    SYLLACIO  (NICHOLAS)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf :  I4Q15. 

m  fapiltiffimft  iLutiobiffl  liJlatia  ^fortia  anglil  ^— '- 
feptimli  lifleTjio  ||  laui  20uc0:  tre  ifuUss   meritiianl 
atd^  iDici  mariis  fut  aufpictjiS  inuictif||fitnoi;  Megti 
J^ifpaniai?  nup  iuStigs :  j^icolai  fgllacii  ficuU  artb 


<r«  celehre,  digne  de  mcmoire  ec  victorieuse 
prise  de  la  Cite  de  Grenade,  1497,  4." 
We  can  find  no  traces  of  this  French  trans- 
lation, and  are  unable  to  say  whether  it  also 
contains  the  Columbus  Letter, 

*  Our  attention  has  been  called  to  a 
notice  in  a  bookseller's  catalogue  of  a  small 
pamphlet,  sine  anno  aul  loco  (but  which 
must  have  been  published  before  1495,  ^^ 
the  author  takes  the  title  of  orator  to  John 
II,  thirteenth  King  of  Portugal,  who  died 
in  the  month  of  October  of  that  year), 
by  one  "  Ferdinandus,"  and  containing  on 
the  sixth  page  a  passage  which,  it  is  said, 
entitles  it  to  a  place  in  the  Bibliotheca 
Americana,  and  is  as  follows : 

"  Primum  quod  eo  regnante  Henrici 
patrui  ejus  de  quo  supra  meminimus  in- 
dustria  cepta  navigari  Ethiopia  est.  Alte- 
rum  vero  sit  quod  eodem  tempore,  in 
oceano  Athlantico  decern  insule  vix  ipsis 
orbit  descriftoribus  cognita :  a  nostril  in- 
vente  sunt;  et  in  omnes  Lusilanie  colonic 
deducte,"  &c.  We  take  that  Ferdinandus 
to  be  the  one  described  in  Antonio,  in 
these  words : 

"  FERDINANDUS  VELAScus,  Joannis  II. 
Portugalliae.  Regis  orator,  edidit : 

"Orationem  habitam  Romx  nomine  dicti 


Regis  ad  Innucentium  VUI.  Ponciticem 
Maximvm.  De  quo  auctor  est  Ludovicus 
Jacobus  a  Sancto  Carolo  in  Bibliotheca  Pon- 
tijicia." 

(BlUimhic.  Hiif.  Ntva  i,  page  393.) 

We  also  think  that  the  plaquette  is 
identical  with  that  which  is  mentioned  by 
Fossi  (Catal.  Codic.  Sacul.  xv.  Vol.  11,  col. 
737  ,and  by  the  great  Audiflredi  as  follows: 

"  VALASci  FERDiNANDi  utriusque  iuris  con- 
sult! Illustrissimi  regis   Portugallie  oratoris 
ad  Innocentium.  viii.  pontificem  maximum 
de  obedientia  Oratio. 
(In  4°.  far.) 

"Charact.  Goth,,  foll.vi,  cum  si^naturi;  a.  a  ii. 
Exst.  ill  Casanat.  Emendandus  est  hujus  Oratioiiii 
titulus,  qui  legitur  in  Specim.  P.  L,  page  162,  iiiini- 
rum  :  Valaici  frt  Ftrdinandt  Portugallia  Rrgt, 
&c.,  quo  Oratoris  nomeii  ipsi  Regi,  qui  Jthanntt 
II.  vocabatur  tribuitur.  Recte  autem  tituliu  re- 
t'crtur  in  Catalogo  Biblioth.  Regix,  a  P.  L.  iii 
subjecla  aniiot.  laudato." 

(Caialtg.  Sat.  xv.  page  167.) 

It  is  evident  that  the  above  passage  en- 
titles the  pamphlet  only  to  a  place  in  the 
Bibliothejue  Africaine  f  as  it  refers  to  the 
discoveries  accomplished  under  the  reign  of 
Henry,  King  of  Portugal.  On  the  other 
hand,  the  oration  was  delivered  at  Rome, 
as  we  take  it,  in  Innocent's  life-time. 
Now,  Pope   Innocent  VIII  died  in  July, 


4{jr  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1 495.  um  rlltnrticinf  trortoriia  pi)aofopl)<fl  ^^^^  interpret 
=-=  tantifij  iPtffatio.ll 

Recto  of  the  second  leaf: 

Mt  infuHs  metitiiani  atq^  intiici  mart  nuper  in^ 

uentiis.ll 

In  fine : 

"kJale  ex  papia  $TiilJUst  trecembtiijuss.  iHcrccIxxxx= 
tUj.  lit 

*^*  410,  j/ff^  anno  aut  loco  (but  supposed  to  have  been  printed  at 
Pavia,  in  1494  or  1495,  by  Girardhengi),  ten  unnumbered 
leaves,  thirty-five  lines  in  a  full  paj^e ;  text  in  black  letter. 
No  water-mark. 

(Private  Library,  New  York,     The  only  other  copy  known 
is  in  the  Trivulzio  Libran',  Milan.) 


**  In  1494,  while  Scillacio  was  thus  employed  at  Pavia  [as  lec- 
turer on  Philosophy  in  the  University],  living  at  the  time  with 
Giovanni  Antonio  Biretta  [who  printed  several  works  in  connection 
with  Francesco  Girardhengi — Panzer],  Guglielmo  Coma,  a  noble 
personage,  wrote  to  him  from  Spain,  describing  the  discoveries  re- 
cently made  by  Columbus.  These  letters  he  immediately  translated 
into  Latin,  inserting  such  other  accounts  as  were  then  universally 
current. 

"  The  voyage  to  which  this  account  refers  is  the  second  ;  that  on 
which  Columbus  sailed  from  Cadiz,  on  the  25th  September,  1493. 
The  first  island  he  discovered  was  called  Dominica,  from  the  day  in 
which  it  was  seen.  The  second  was  named  Maria-galante,  ■  r  vo- 
lante,  after  the  Admiral's  vessel.  He  then  visited,  in  succession, 
Guadaloupe,  Santa-Cruz,  the  Island  of  St.  John  the  Baptist,  now 
Porto-Rico,  and,  last  of  all,  Hispaniola. 

"  This  voyage  has  also  been  described  by  other  writers  of  the 
same  age.     Among  these  are  the  physician  Chanca'  of  Seville ;  who. 


1492,  or  eight  months  before  it  was  known 
in  Europe  that  Columbus  had  rediscovered 
the  New  World. 

f  Anglici :  To  the  most  learned  Lewis 
Maria  Sforza  of  Anghiera,  seventh  Duke 
of  Milan.  Concerning  the  newly  discovered 
islands  of  the  South  and  Indian  Ocean, 
under  the  auspices  of  the  most  invincible 
Sovereigns  of  the  Spains.  Preface  of 
Nicholas  Syllacio  of  Sicily,  Doctor  of  Arts 


and  Medicine,  Lecturer  on  Philotophy  at 
Pavia. 

Adieu,  [dated]  Pavia,  ides  of  Decem- 
ber, 1494. 

'  Published  tor  the  first  time  by  Navar- 
rete,  in  his  Coleccion,  Vol.  I,  pages  198- 
224 ;  and  afterwards  in  Mr.  Major's  Seltct 
Lettfrs,  pages  I S-68,  with  an  English  trans- 
lation, republished  in  the  Appendix  to  the 
N.  Y.  Syllacio,  pages  i-xxxiv. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  .  - 

(N.  y.  SjlUcit,  Incrud.,  page  \\.) 

Direct  rcfcrcncu :   |  BMmkeca  TMrnia^,  Vol.  rn,  page  i- j 

1  l"""^"'  ^'•"'''"  Tyt»£--,  Vol.  «,  page  ,9, 

B»uni:t,  Vol.  II,  tol.  166 


H95- 


VOLVMINE    1496. 


17.    LfLio  [ZMCH^Rr ~l>i      HOC 
CON||TINENTVR   HI   LiBRI. 

Primus  liber  De  origine  &  laudibus 
icientiarum.llSecundus  liber.  Contra  An- 
tipodes ||  Tertius  liber  De  miferia  hominis 
&  contemptu||mundi.||Quartiis  liber  De 
generibus  uentorum  ||  Quintus  liber  Vita 
Caroli  Magni.d 

Recto  of  the  second  leaf- 

FINISIIFLORENTIAEIIIMPRESSVMII 
f-er  Ser   Franciscu   Bonaccursium  ||  Im- 
penfa  uero  &  fumptibus  Ser|| Petri  Pacini 
de  Pifcia.    Anno  Salutis|| 

M.  CCCC.  LXXXXVIli 
Septimo  idus  Aprilis.|| 

•  Dtcade  I,  Ub.  „.  '  ' 


48 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


I4.q6«         ***  4'o»  seventy-two  unnumbered  leaves. 


On  the  recto  of  the 
last,  the  register  ;  on  the  verso,  a  woodcut  representing  the 
arms  (probably)  of  the  Piscia  family.  Diagram  on^the  recto 
of  I-iv.     Printed  in  Roman  type. 

(Briciih  Museum.) 


"  In  this  remarkable  work  (f.  ii)  allusion  is  made  to  the  recent  dis- 
covery of  America  by  the  Spaniards." 

(LiBRI.') 

'«  Zacharie   Lilio,    Chanoine    regulier   de  Saint-jean  de-Latran  et 
eveque  titulaire  de  Sebasti  en  Armenie,  ne  a  Vienne  dans  le  \  5*  Siecle*." 


Dirtcl  rejerences  •• 


Maittaire,  AnnaUt  Typogr.,  Vol.  i  (of  173J),  page  629. 

Panzer,  Annates  Typogr.,  Vol.  i,  page  414. 

Fabricius,  Bibl.  Media  et  Injim.  Lat.,  Vol.  vi,  page  921. 

Laire,  Index  Librorum,  Vol.  11,  page  II4. 

AuDirrREDi,  Spec.  ed.  Itat.,  page  348. 

Fossi,  Catalog.  Codic.  Sire,  xv,  Vol.  11,  cols.  79-80. 

Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  v,  No.  2516. 

Brunet,  Vol.  in,  col.  1078. 

Graesse,  Vol.  IT.  page  210. 


18.     BENEDETTI  (ALEXANDER)— DIARIA     DE     BEL- 

LO  CAROLING. 

Recto  0/  tire  last  leaf: 

Alexander  Benedictus  Veronenfis  Phy- 
{1  Ileus  Sebaftiano  Baduario  eqti :  &  Hie|| 
ronymo  Bernardo  confiliariis||Veneti  Sena- 
tus  Clarifrimis.||S.  P.  D.) 

VenetiisIlM  .IIIID.  Sexto  Cal.  Septem- 

bres.ll 

Impetratum  eft  ab  IlluftrifT.  S.  Veneto 
ne  lice  II  at  cuiq  has  ephemeridas  imprimere 

'  Catalogue  of  1861,  No.  294.  univertel,  Paris,    1810    (9th    edit,),  Vol. 

*  Cbandon  et    Delandine's  Dictionnaire     i,  page  136. 


Bibliotheca  Americana, 


m 


nee  latino  fermoe  nee  uulgario  &e.  ut  i   14.06. 
pnuilegio.*  ^^ 

***  frTm^l°'  7'  "'f  (''",'  *"PPo^'--d  to  have  been  printed  in  uo6 
from  tne  date  of  th.        )ve-m<,ntioned  letter;  and  by  Aldus  a't 
IZ'-jTt  '^'-  ^yP^'-^t-bles  tha.  in  'the  ediLn  of  the 
^n^a  of  Bembo    given   by  that  celebrated   ..rinter)      Title 
,  wuh  verses  on  the  verso.  +  sixty-seven  unnumbVre7ieav«     ' 

(Private  Library,  Nrw  York.) 

"  Ce  journal  d'Alexandre  Benedetti.  medecin  arfarh^i  p        ■      -  ■ 
t.enne  opposee  a  Charles  VIII,  a  ete  r  impr  S  a  la  su he  deTwr' 
vemadc  P.  Giustiniano.  edit,  de  Strasb      1611     in  f^l.^    ''"''' 

(Climint'.) 

We  insert  this  work,  we  are  sorry  to  say,  on  no  bet 

ZTl'%  '^T  '^^  ^''H'^'''^  ^--/-CLondon 
1789,  4to,  alleged  to  have  been  perpetrated  bi  the  Rev 
Mr.  Homer.     After  a  diligent  survev  r,(  fh/k     1 
are  constrained  ,0  confess  KTd  d' no-td  a°lri: 
.,ne  o.  word  relating  to  America.     Others  ^^^  b'eS: 


Direct  refereticei! 


Graesse,  Vol.  I,  page  334. 


*  ^nglici :  Alexander  Benedict  of  Ve  tl 

rona,    Physician   to   Sebastian   Baduarius  Ven?;,  f   k^   ^°"  "'"«»""'    Senate  of 

and  to  Jerome  Bernard,  Counsellors  of  he  na  s  "tt      '  '?^  ""^  '°  ?""'  ^^^^  ""- 

Most   Illustnous   Venetian   Senate,    Hail  1    '     a,  f    '"  ^^"l"  °'  '"  common  lan- 

and  Greetmg.                                    '    "*"  g"Jge,  as  [expressed]  in  the  privilege 

Venice,  the  sixth  calend  of  September,  /'*^"'"'«?'«  CurUusc,  Vol.   ,„,  "page 


5° 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


1497.  19.     COLUMBUS  (CHRISTOPHER)-Q^n    fdjott    l|ttliflf|     Ujett 

iiott  ettldjeii  in|flctt||bie  bo  In  furtjen  jliten  fttnbeu  ftjub 
bnrd)  b^llfiinig  bon  dif^anio.  bnb  fa^t  bd  flro^en  iuun|| 
'    berUdjftt  bingen  bie  in  b0  \t\U  in^Icit  ftjnb. 

Then  woodcut  of  the  king  receiving  Columbus,  which  is  repeated 
on  the  verso  of  the  last  leaf. 

Colophon : 

^ttrncft  )u  ftraflittrg  bff  grunecl  bd  meifter  ^wiU= 
me|f  fttftler  t)m  inr :  9)tc(cc4Cbii.  bff  fant  Derott^mue 

tog.  II* 


*j^*  Sm.  4to  ;  eight  unnumbered  leaves,  the  last  of  which  is  blanic. 
Thirty  lines  in  a  full  page. 

(Private  Library,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

Ebert'  and  Graesse*  state  that  this  curious  German 
translation  of  the  first  Letter  of  Columbus  has  been 
republished  in  the  Rheiniscb.  Archiv.,  Vol.  xv,  page 
17,  sq. 

There  is  a  very  successful  fac-simile  made  by  the 
elder  Harris  of  London. 


Dirtct  referencts : 


Hain,  Repcrtorium,  Vol.  i,  No,  5493. 

Meusel,  Biblioth.  Hisior.,  Vol.  Ill,  page  z6l. 

Humboldt,  Exam.  Critique,  Vol.  IV,  page  73. 

Bibliotheca  Grenvilliana,  page  159. 

N.  Y.  Sy/lacio,  Appendix,  page  Ivi,  for  a  well-executed  fac-simile 

of  the  woodcut  on  the  recto  of  the  first  leaf. 
Bibliotheca  Broiuniana,  Nos.  7  and  8. 
Brunet,  Vol.  II,  col.  165. 
Stivens,  American  Bibliographer,  page  67,  states  that  it  contains 

"changes  and  additions." 


*  Anglici :  A  fine,  nice  reading,  con- 
cerning several  islands  which  have  lately 
been  discovered  by  the  King  of  Spain  ; 
and  giving  an  account  of  great  and  won- 
derful things  found  in  the  said  islands. 
Printed  at  Strasburg  by  Master  Bartholo- 
mew Kustler,  in  the  year  1497,  the  day 
of  St.  Jerome. 


'  Bibliogr.     Dictionary,    Vol.    I,    page 

37'- 

Tresor,  Vol.  II,  page  128,  also  refers 
to  Hummel.  Neue  Bibl.,  v,  lelten  Biich., 
Vol.  I,  page  15,  ly.  Am  Ende,  Frei- 
miith.  Betracht.  iiber  alte  u.  neue  Bii- 
cher.  Augib.,  1784.  in-8°.  Vol.  i,  page 
79.  '?• 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  51 

20.  .*ArojvrA/.-Dife  figur  anzaigt  vns  das  volck  vnd  I497< 
infel  die  gefunden  ift  durch  den  chriftenlichen  kiinig  zu 
Portigal  oder  von  feinen  vnderthonen.  Die  leiit  find  alfo 
nacket  hiibfch.  braun  wolgeftalt  von  leib.  ir  heubter.|| 
halfz,  arm.  scham.  fufz.  frawen  vnd  mann  ain  wenig  mit 
federn  bedeckt.  Auch  haben  die  mann  in  iren  ange- 
fichten  vnd  bruft  vid  edel  geftain.  Es  hat  auch  nyemantz 
nichts  funder  find  alle  ding  gemain.  ||  Vnnd  die  mann 
habendt  weyber  welche  in  gefallen,  es  fey  mutter, 
fchwesfter  oder  frevindt.  darjnn  haben  fy  kain  vnder- 
fchayd.  Sy  ftreyten  auch  mit  einander.  Sy  efllen  auch 
ainander  felbs  die  erfchlagen  ||  werden.  vnd  hencken  das 
felbig  fleifch  in  den  rauch.  Sy  werden  alt  hundert  vnd 
funtzig  iar.     Vnd  haben  kain  regiment.jl* 


♦  * 


Folio.  "  The  above  text,  in  German,  occupies  four  lines  be- 
neath an  old  block  leaf,  nine  by  thirteen  inches  square,  repre- 
senting the  manners  and  customs  of  the  natives  of  the  North- 
ern and  Eastern  coast  of  South  America  as  first  found  by  the 
Portuguese  at  the  end  of  the  fiftee-th  or  beginning  of  the 
sixteenth  century.  It  is  without  date,  but  v/as  probably  printed 
at  Augsburg,  or  Nuremberg,  between    the   years    1497    and 


1504' 


(British  Museum.) 


page 

to  refers 

Buck., 

k,    Frei- 

tue    Bii- 

I,  page 


Dirict  Ttftrtncti 


•{ 


*  Stctins,  Amtrkan  Bihl'iografhtr,  page  8,  with  fac-limile  of  the 
xylographic  leaf. 
Uiuorical  Nuggtts,  No.  77. 


*  Anglici !  This  figure  represents  to  us 
the  people  and  island  which  have  been 
discovered  by  the  Christian  King  of  Por- 
tugal or  by  his  subjects.  The  people  are 
thus  naked,  handsome,  brown,  well  shaped 
in  body,  their  heads,  necks,  arms,  private 
parts,  and  the  feet  of  men  and  women,  are 
a  little  covered  with  feathers.  The  men 
have  also  in  their  faces  and  breast  many 
precious  stones.     Nor  does  any  one  possess 


anything,  but  all  things  are  in  common. 
And  the  men  have  as  wives  those  who 
please  them,  be  they  mothers,  sisters,  or 
friends,  wherein  they  make  no  distinction. 
They  also  fight  with  each  other,  and  eat 
each  other,  even  the  slain,  and  hang 
that  same  Hesh  in  the  smoke.  They 
become  a  hundred  and  fifty  years  old, 
and  have  no  government. 


5« 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


1408.  21.      SABELLICO   (M^RC-ANTONIO)-M.       ANTONIVS 

— —  SABELLICVS:  AVGVSTINO  BARBADICO  SE- 
RENISSIMOII VENETIARVM    PRINCIPI    ET 
.     SENATVI  FELICITATEM.il 

Rt(to  of  second  leaf: 

LIBER  PRIMVS.IJMARCI  ANTONII  COC- 
CII  SABELLICI  IN  RAPSODIAM  HISTORI- 
ARVM  AD  ORBE  CONDITO.|| 

Colophon : 

IMPRESSVM  VENETIIS  PER  BERNARDI- 
NVM  ET  MA-IITHEVM  VENETOS.  g  VIVVL- 
GO  DICVNTVR  LIAL-||  BANESOTL  ANNO 
INCARNATIONIS  DOMINI-||  CE.  MCCCCXC- 
VIH.  PRIDIE  CALENDAS  APRI.||LIS.  REG- 
NANTE  INCLITO  AVGVSTI.||  NO  BARBADI- 
CO  SERENISSIMO  II  VENETIARVM  PRIN- 
CIPE.IJFELICITVR  DIVQ  VE  ||  ET  FAVSTE 
SViyPERSTITE.  DIV. 

Then,  printer's  mark. 

*^*  Large  folio,  cccclxii  leaves. 

(British  Museum.) 

This  is  the  first  part,  which  we  have  seen  frequently 
quoted  by  the  modern  biographers  of  Columbus,  con- 
cerning the  Admiral's  early  life,  or  on  the  subject  of 
the  Columbuses  who  had  preceded  him,  especially  the 
one  called  by  Sabellicus  himself,  "  Archipirata  illustris." 
The  following  continuation,  however,  is  somewhat  fuller 
on  the  subject  of  Christopher  Columbus  and  his  voyages, 
viz. : 

— Secunda  pars   Enneadum  ab  inclinatione  Romani 

Imp.  usque  ad  annum  1504,  cum  Epitome. 

Ed.  hujus  collectiu  ais  prima 
Venetiis,  Bernardinus  Vercellensis,  1504,  folio. 

(Kloss'.) 

'  Catalogue,  page  241,  No.  3385.  , 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


« 


"  Chacune  de  ccs  Enneadcs  contient  neuf  livres.     Sabeliico  en  pub- 
lia  sept,  on  soixancc-trois  livres,  ^  Venise,  en   1498,  in  fol.,  ot  en  , 
1504,  trois  autres  Enncades,  et  deux  livres  dc  plus :  en  tout  quatrc- 
vingt  douze  livres." 

(GiNQUiNi'.) 

Marcus-Anthony  Coccio,  alias  Sabellious,  was  born 
in  1436,  at  Vicovaro',  in  or  about  the  country  of  the  old 
Sabines  (hence  his  surname);  he  died  at  Venice  in  1506, 
of  an  extremely  unpleasant  complaint*.  He  is  the  author 
of  the  above  attempt  at  a  universal  history  from  the  be- 
ginning of  the  world  to  the  year  1503,  which  he  divided 
mto  Enneades.  We  regret  to  say  that  we  have  never 
been  able  to  consult  that  rare  compilation,  which  is  fre- 
quently quoted  in  histories,  where  mention  is  made  of 
Columbus  and  his  transatlantic  voyages.  Ihe  eighth 
book  of  the  tenth  Enneade  contains  a  short  ("  exiguis 
tantiitn  punctis,"  Jovius  would  say'),  but,  we  are  told, 
highly  interesting  sketch  of  Columbus.  It  was  written 
before  the  year  1503,  at  a  time  when  the  only  printed 
works  treating  of  the  Western  World,  so  far  as  we 
know,  were  Columbus'  letter,  Syllacio's  second-hand 
relation,  and  one  or  two  of  the  letters  of  Vespuc- 
cius.  On  that  account  the  Enneades,  like  MafFei  of 
Volterra's  Commentary,  and  Bergomas'  Chronicle,  ac- 
quire that  kind  of  interest  which  pertains  to  all  works 
relating  to  this  country,  and  published  before  ihe  first 
Decades  of  Peter  Martyr,  which  form,  as  it  were,  the 
basis  and  material  of  all  subsequent  publications  on 
the  subject. 

In  Sabellicus'  Rerum  venetiarum  ab  urbe  condita  (De- 
cad.  4,  lib.  3),  we  only  find  the  remark  :  "  Adh<£c  negocia 
de  more  exierant  triremes  quatuor,  .  .  .  Sed  cum,  ha  Ibe- 
ricum  navigant  oceanum,  Columbus  junior,  Columbi  pirata 
illustris,  ut  ajunt,  nepos,  cum  septem  navibus  ad  pugnam  in- 


"""•-'   ^''"'■^•"^'i'ti''!'',   Vol.    3,  *VALtMA^,  Delimratorum  hMicitate 

page  428.     (Edit  of  .8,,)  (Amst.,   ,647),  page  28.     Jovius,  ^.  ^A 

•  TuABoscH.,  Siou^djlla  Uutr.  /,./„  Hvomm  famo«  (Venice,  1558),  page  104. 

Vol.  Ti,  page  698.     (Edit,  of  1807.)       ,  '£%  ^,r,r  </.«.,  Chap.  xLv.il 


1498. 


54 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


1498.  structis  circa  Sacrum  promontorium  .  .  .  sub  nociem  factus 
— aB»B9 est  Veneto  obvius"  which  is  probably  a  repetition  of  the 
»  *  passage  in  the  first  Enneades,  and  which  derives  its  im- 
portance chiefly  from  the  great  stress  laid  upon  it  by 
Fernando  Columbus  in  that  curious  chapter  of  the  His- 
tories where  he  strives  to  make  the  reader  believe  that  his 
father  could  reckon  among  his  ancestors  the  Cilio  men- 
tioned by  Tacitus. 


Dirtct  rtftrtncti: 


BiROOMiNiis,  Suppl.  Cronlc.  (edit  of  1506),  page  435. 

Maittairk,  Annates  Typogr.,  Vol    i  (edit,  of  1733),  page  664. 

Panzer,  jinnalet  Typogr.,  Vol.  vin,  page  371. 

Saxiui,  Onomasiicon,  Vol.  11,  page  496. 

Mkusil,  Biblhthtca  Hiitorica,  Vol.  i,  page  96. 

Vossius,  de  Hiitoricis  Latinis,  page  670. 

NiciRON,  Mimoirts,  Vols,  xii  and  xx. 


SIXTEENTH   CENTURY. 


2  2.    rESPUCCIUS   (AMERICUS)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 
Verso  of  the  first  leaf: 

f  f  J|t|0  II  ^etti  tie  metitci^  falutem  plurimam 
tiicit.ll* 

End  of  the  verso  of  the  last  leaf: 

i£x  italica  in  latinam  Unguam  iocuTruiei  interpre» 
i)ac  epiftolam  bettit  btljlatini  t\H  inteUigant  ig  mul? 
ta  mlrana  in  triess  rcpetian!  r  eoi^  comprimajjtur 
auUacia  qui  cclil  et  maieftatem  fcrutari:  tt  plti« 
fapcre  (g  liceat  fapercllbolunt :  quantro  a  tanto  tem= 
pore  quo  muntiug  cepit  ignota  fit  baftita«||tetre  r 
que  cotttineatut  in  eajlf 

Hauis  Heo 

*^*  Sm.  4to,  j/«^  anno  aut  loco;  four  unnumbered  leaves.  Only 
forty  lines  in  a  full  page,  a  triangle  at  the  top  of  the  fourth 
page  ;  neither  signatures  nor  water-marks. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


1501. 


*  Anglici:  The  New  World.  Alberic  fThe  interpreter  Giocundi  translated  thii 
Vespucius  presents  his  best  wishes  to  Lau-  letter  from  the  Italian  into  the  Latin 
rent  Peter  de  Medicia.  language,    that    all    who    are    versed    in 


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ICOf.  Albericus  {Madrignano\  Ruchamer^,  Jehan  Lambert^), 
-  Emeric  {Du  Redouer*),  Alberico'  or  Americo  {Goma- 
ra^),  Morigo  {Hojeda''),  Amerrigo  [Munoz^),  Ameri- 
cus  {Peter  Martyr^),  Almerigo  Fiorentino  (Fia>ie//o'°)  de 
Espuche",  Vezpuche",  Despuciii",  Vespuccio  [Ramu- 
sio'*),  Vespuchy  {Christ.  Columbus^^),  usually  called  Amer- 
icus  Vespuccius,  the  third  son  of  a  public  notary  of 
patrician  origin,  was  born,  March  9th,  I45I'^  some 
say  at  Venice  {Herrera^''),  or  at  Florence,  in  a  hospital 
founded  by  one  of  his  ancestors,  and  which  is  still  stand- 
ing in  the  street  called  Borgognissanti.  He  was  educated 
by  his  uncle,  a  learned  friar,  with  whom  he  seems  to 
have  been  still  studying,  October  i8th,  1476'^  in  com- 
•  pany  with  Pietro  Soderini  {Guliano  Ricci'^),  who  became 
afterwards  (from  1502  to  1512)  Gonfalonier  of  Flor- 
ence"', and  to  whom  the  duplicate  account  of  the  third 
voyage  was  addressed. 

Nothing  is  known  of  him  from  the  time  he  was  a  stu- 
dent to  the  year  1490,  when  he  left  Italy."    He  repaired 


the  Latin  may  learn  how  many  wonder- 
ful things  are  being  discovered  every  day, 
and  that  the  temerity  of  those  who 
want  to  probe  the  Heavens  and  their 
Majesty,  and  to  know  more  than  is  al- 
lowed to  know,  be  confounded ;  as  not- 
withstanding the  long  time  since  the 
world  began  to  exist,  the  vastness  of  the 
earth  and  what  it  contains  is  still  un- 
known. 

'   Itiner.  Portugall.,  cap.  cxxil. 

'  Nc-we  unbekanthe,  lib.  v. 

'  Title  to  his  and  all  the  separate  edi- 
tions of  Vespuccius"  letters. 

*  Titles  to  the  five  editions  of  his  trans- 
lation of  Vespuccius'  letters  into  French. 

'  Titles  to  the  six  editions  of  the  Paesi 
nouamente  retrouati. 

*  Historia  general  de  /as  India: ;  Sara- 
got.,  ful.,  1551-53;  Medina  del  Campo, 
fol.,  1553;  Saragos.,  fol.,  1554;  Antw., 
8vo,  1552  (for  1554);  and  in  Barcia's 
Historiadores  primitivos,  cap.  103, 

'  Probanzas  del  Fiscal,  No.  LXIX,  Na- 
VAR.,  Vol.  Ill,  p.  544. 

'  Historia  del  Nuevo  Mundo,  p.  x. 


•  Decade  11,  lib.  10. 

'"  Letter  to  the  Signoria  of  Venice,  dis- 
covered by  Ranke,  and  published  in  Hum- 
boldt's Examen  Critique,  Vol.  v,  p.  157. 

"  Navar.,  Vol.  Ill,  Doc.  Ill,  p.  292. 

"  Id.,  Doc.  IV,  p.  292. 

"  Id.,  Doc.  IX,  p.  299. 

'*  Raccolta. 

"  Letter  to  his  son  Diego,  Feb.  5th, 
1505,  in  Nay.,  Vol.  i,  p.  349.  That 
name  seems  to  be  a  corruption  of  the  Ger- 
man word  Amalrich  ,•  see  voN  der  Hagen, 
/imerika,  ein  urspriinglicb  Deutscher  Name, 
in  Neum  lahrb.  der  Berlin.  Gesellschaft, 
1835,   p.  13-17. 

"  Libra  d'appro'vazioni  d'eta,  chesi  con- 
ser-va  nell'  Archi-vo  Secreto  de  S.  A.  R. 
(Great  Duke  of  Toscany),  in  Bandini, 
p.  XXIV. 

"  Decad.  1,  lib.  iv,  c.  4. 

"  Letter  to  his  father  (StrozzianaLibr., 
codice  480) ;  Band.,  pp.  Xxvil-xxviii. 

'•  apud  Band.,  p.  xxv. 

"  Ranke's  letter  to  Humboldt,  in  Ex- 
amen Critique,  Vol.  V,  p.  261. 

"  Bandini,  p.  xxxv. 


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to  Spain  in  the  beginning  of  1493  {Humboldt''%  as  an  I  50I 
agent  {Bartoiozzi^^)  of  Lorenzo  di  Pierfrancesco  de  Me-  = 
did  (cousin  of  the  great  Lorenzo),  or  simply  as  clerk 
{Navarrete^)  in  the  leading  commercial  house  of  his 
countryman  Juanoto  Berardi,  at  Seville.  Miinster** 
erroneously  asserts  that  Vespuccius  joined  the  first 
expedition  of  Columbus  in  1492,  while  Canovai**  states 
that  he  was  sent  as  an  apprentice  by  Ferdinand  on 
the  second  voyage  in  1493.  After  the  death  of  Juan- 
oto Berardi,  December,  1495  (Navarrete^'^) ,  Vespuc- 
cius was  promoted  to  the  position  of  factor  or  part- 
ner*^ ;  and,  as  such,  equipped  the  vessels  for  the  third 
expedition  of  Columbus  ;  receiving,  January  12th, 
1496^,  ten  thousand  maravedis.  From  April,  1497,  to 
May  30th,  1498,  Vespuccius  was  constantly  traveling 
from  Seville  to  San  Lucar  {Munoz).  He  was  married 
to  Maria  Cerezo,  when  and  where  does  not  appear.  She 
survived  him*9. 

Vespuccius  quitted  Spain  for  Portugal  in  1501,  secretly 
{Bandini^°),  or  at  the  instigation  of  King  Emmanuel", 
and  remained  at  Lisbon,  or  on  board  Portuguese  vessels, 
to  1505,  when  he  returned  to  Spain,  at  the  request  of 
Ferdinand.  He  repaired  to  the  court  with  an  earnest 
letter  of  introduction  from  Columbus  to  his  son  Diego, 
February  5th,  1505,  and  was  made  a  Spanish  subject, 
April  24th,  1505'*.  From  May,  1505,  until  August, 
1506,  Vespuccius  was  at  Palos  and  Moguer,  preparing 
Pinzon's  expedition.     On  the  23d  of  August,  1506,  he 


"  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  IV,  p.  45. 

"  Ricerche,  p.  79 ;  on  the  authority  of 
several  letters  contained  in  the  "  Carteggio 
della  Famiglia  de  Medici,"  in  the  Archives 
of  the  Medici,  in  Florence. 

'*  CoUccion,  Vol.  Ill,  p.  315. 

'*  Cosmographia  Uni-versalis  ,*  Basle,  n. 
d.  (1550),  fol.,  p.  1269. 

'*  yiaggijf.  iT.'i; Disiertaz. giust.,t}o. y . 

"  C//Knon,  Vol.  Ill,  p.  317.  Have  there 
been  two  Juanoto  Berardis  ?  In  the  Co- 
leccion  de  Documentos  ineditos  re/ativos  al 
deuubrimiento,  cenquiua  y  coionizalion  de 


las  fosesiones  espaHolas  in  America,  sacados 
del  Real  archivo  de  Indias  ;  Madrid,  1864, 
Tom.  I,  No.  3,  p.  241,  we  find  a  memo- 
rial "  de  Juanoto  Berardi  acerca  de  varias 
cosas  tocantes  a  la  gobernacion  de  las  In- 
dias," to  which  the  editors  ascribe  the  date 
of  1517. 

"'  Navarrete,  Vol.  Ill,  p.  317. 

"  Mu55oz,  Historia,  Prologo,  p.  X. 

'"  f^ita,  p.  XLvi. 

"  Third  voyage  in  Hylacomylus,  Gru- 
nig.  edit.,  recto  of  F-iiij. 

"  Navar.,  Vol.  Ill,  Doc.  IV. 


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I^of.  was  written  to  by  order  of  Philip  I",  to  ascertain  what 
BEs^^B  was  required  for  an  expedition  in  the  search  of  groceries 
(with  Vicente  Yafiez  Pinzon'*). 

In  1506,  Vespuccius  was  associated  with  Juan  de  la 
Cosa  for  a  new  expedition,  in  which  he  was  to  command 
the  caravel  La  Medina,  but  which  did  not  sail,  owing 
to  the  death  of  King  Philip.  He  was  again  summoned 
to  the  court,  November  26th,  1507",  and  appointed 
Chief  Pilot  of  the  Indies  before  March  22d,  1508,  on 
which  day  he  received  a  certain  number  of  maravedis, 
although  his  nomination  (or  perhaps  only  an  extension 
of  powers)  is  dated  August  6th,  I5o8'^ 

Vespuccius  finally  died,  at  Seville,  February  22d, 
1 512",  or  atTerceira,  one  of  the  Azore  islands,  in  15 16 
(G.  Lopez  de  Pintho^^,  Bandini,  Meusel),  or  in  151 8 
{Negri^''),  poor,  but  highly  respected  by  all*°,  never 
dreaming  that  he  had  discovered  a  new  continent,  and 
persuaded*',  like  Columbus'**,  that,  at  best,  he  only  visited 
the  western  coast  of  Japan. 

Four  voyages  are  ascribed  to  Vespuccius.  The  first 
voyage  was  undertaken  for  the  King  of  Spain,  probably 
under  Hojeda  [Las  Casas*\  Herrera,  Charlevoix**,  Hum- 


••  Philip  the  Fair,  who  reigned  only 
from  June  ayth,  1506,  to  Sept,  25th, 
1506;  but  long  enough  to  deserve  the 
contempt  in  which  he  is  held  by  all  im- 
partial historians. 

'*  Navar.,  Vol.  Ill,  Doc.  V. 

"  Id.,  Doc.  XXVI. 

"  Id.,  Doc.  VII  and  viii. 

"  Id.,  Doc.  X. 

'"  apud  Bandini,  p.  lxiii,  and  Cano- 
vAi,  p.  156. 

"  Istoria  de  Fiorent.  Scritlori  f  Ferrara, 
fol.,  1722,  p.  31. 

*"  The  only  exception  is  Las  Casas ;  but 
we  should  not  forget  that  the  good  but 
impulsive  Bishop  of  Chiapas  did  not  com- 
mence writing  his  Historia  de  las  Indias 
until  1527  ;  and  the  severe  language  used 
in  Lib.  i,  cap:^.  1 64  and  1 68  seems  to  have 
been  prompted  by  Hylacomylus'  version,  a 
late  edition  of  which  he  cites  in  Lib.  i, 
cap.  140.     The  passage  where  Vespuccius 


is  made  to  say  that  he  brought  with  him 
two  hundred  and  twenty  slaves  (as  if  such 
a  number  of  human  beings  could  hold  to- 
gether with  the  crew  in  the  light  caravels 
of  those  days),  may  be,  after  all,  the  real 
cause  of  his  wrath. 

*'  Duplicate  of  second  voyage,  in  Ban- 
BiNi,  pp.  66  and  83.  We  are  at  a  loss 
to  find  the  authority  for  Alccdo's  state- 
ment that :  "  el  Rey  de  Portugal  para  per- 
petuar  su  memoria  hizo  colgar  en  la  Ygle- 
sia  Metropolitana  de  Lisboa  los  fragmentos 
de  la  Nave  que  mandaba."  Bibliotheca 
Americana,  MS.,  Vol.  11,  p.  891  There  Is 
a  similar  assertion    in    Negri  (Istoria,  p. 

3«-) 

"  Letter  in  Navar.,  Vol.  i,  p.  304; 
and  Letter  to  the  Pope,  id.  op.,  Vol.  11, 
p.  280. 

*'  Historia  dt  las  Indias,  MS.,  Cap.  164. 

**  Histoire   de   t Isle-EspagnoU  j    Paris 

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boldt*^)y  Vespuccius  sailing  in  the  capacity  of  pilot  {Ho-  I  ^o'. 
jeda')^  or  of  simple  trader  {Servetus*^),  or  of  a  mer- ■ 
chant  well  versed  in  cosmography  (Herrera),  or  selected 
by  King  Ferdinand  to  aid  in  making  discoveries  {Valori- 
Bandini*''),  or  as  the  astronomer  of  the  expedition  {Hum- 
boldt^)^  or  as  a  passenger  pecuniarily  interested  {'Tira- 
boschi^). 

He  sailed  from  Cadiz,  May  20th,  1497  {Hylacomylus^°y 
Giuntini^'),  or  May  10th,  1497  {Falori-Bandini^';  Cano- 
vai"),  or  May  20th,  1499  {Las  Casas,  Herrera). 

First  reached  the  mainland  after  a  passage  of  twenty- 
seven  days  {Hylacomylus^\  Giuntini),  or  thirty-seven  {Va- 
/ori-Bandifji",  Canovai^^).  Returned  to  Cadiz,  October 
15th,  1499  {Hylacomy/us"),  or  October  15th,  1498  {Ca- 
novai^"),  or  October  14th,  1498  {Falori-Bandini^'^) ,  bring- 
ing  two  hundred  and  twenty-two  slaves  (Indians),  who 
were  sold. 

If  Hylacomylus'  dates  are  correct,  the  leader  of  that 
expedition  is  entitled  to  the  credit  of  having  landed  on 
the  shores  of  this  continent  before  Columbus  (August 
I  St,  1498),  and  even  previous  to  the  Cabots  (June  24th, 

i497'^)- 


*'  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  IV,  pp.  195, 
200,  2S4,  293. 

*•  apud  his  edit,  of  Ptolemy's  Geogr. ; 
Lyons,  fol.,  1535  ;  recto  of  leaf  28. 

*'  "  Fui  eletto  per  Sua  Altezza,  che  io 
fussi  in  esta  flotta,  per  aiutare  a  discoprire," 
apud  Bandini,  p.  6,  and  Grenville  codex, 
recto  of  the  second  leaf. 

*'  Examen  Critir/ue,  Vol.  IV,  p.  190. 

*'  Storia  delta  Lett.  Itat.,  Vol,  VI,  p. 
251  (edit,  of  Flor.,  1807). 

'"  "  M.ccccxcrj.  XX  mensis  Maij  die," 
— St.  Die  edit.,  recto  of  b  5  ;  Gruniger's, 
recto  of  D  ii;  La  Place's,  versa  of  D  7, 
Gryn^us's,  Basle,  1532  and  S537,p.  155. 

"  Commentaria  in  Spharam  Sacro-Bos- 
co  ;  Lyons,  8vo,  1578,  cap.  ill. 

"  "  10. di  Maggio  1497," — Band.,  p.  6; 
Grenv.  codex,  recto  of  second  leaf 

"  yiaggi,  p.  19' 

•*  "  xxvij.  vix  elapsis  diebus," — St.  Die 
edit.,  verso  of  b  5,  Grun.,  recto  of  D  II; 
La  Pl.,  recto  of  D  8j  Gryn.,  p.  155. 


"  "  Al  capo  di  37.  giorni" — Band., 
p.  7. 

"  f^'ogg',  P-  19- 

"  "  cum  cc.xxij  captiuatis  personis.  xv. 
Octobris.  die.  Anno  dfti  m.cccc.lxxxx  ix. 
Ubi  Ixtissime  suscepti  fuimus  ac  vbi  eosdem 
captiuos  nostros  vendidimus," — St.  Die 
edit.,  recto  of  d  iii;  Grun.,  verso  of  E  6j 
La  Pl.,  verso  of  E  7;  Gryn.,  p.  168. 

"  "  IS  di  Ottobre,  1498,"— f/af^»,  p. 

49- 

"  "Adi  i8.diOttcbre,i498,"— ^(Va,p. 
36  (for  p.  32).  Herrera  (Dec.  i,  lib.  iv.  c. 
2.),  ascribes  only  five  months  to  the  entire 
voyage  j  Charlevoix  {Hist,  de  I'lste-Es- 
pagno/e)  twenty-five. 

"  As  we  will  have  no  other  opportunity 
of  mentioning  Cabot's  name,  we  beg  leave 
to  insert  in  this  place  several  overlooked 
authorities  concerning  his  memorable  voy- 
age, viz.  : 

1st.  The  Map  of  Juan  de  la  Cosa, 
dated  1 500,  which  was  discovered  by  Hum- 


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I  COf.  The  second  voyage  was  also  undertaken  for  the  King 
^f  Cp^;»  probably  under  Vicente  Yaflez  Pinzon  [Hum- 
boldh).  They  sailed  from  Cadiz,  one  day  of  May,  1489 
(Hylacomylu/'^)y  or  May  i6th,  1499  [t^^lori-Bandinf'^) , 
or  May  i8th,  1499  {Canovat^).  Reached  land  after 
nineteen  days  {Hy/acomylu/"),  or  forty-four  [P^alori-Ban- 
din^)y  or  on  the  twenty-third  day  {Canovai^).  Re- 
turned to  Cadiz,  after  a  month  and  a  half,  September  8th 
{Hylacomylu/*,  Valori-Bandinf^),  or  June  8th  {CanovaP°). 


boldt  in  the  library  of  Walclcnaer,  and 
afterward  sold  to  the  Queen  of  Spain  fur 
4,020  francs.  It  is  now  in  her  library,  at 
Madrid.  Fac-similes  have  been  published 
by  JoMAiD  (^Monuments  de  la  Giographie, 
Paris,  fbl.,  1 8 54,  map  xri);  Ghillany 
{^Gtuhicbtt  d.  Bthaim,  Nuremb.,  410, 
1853) ;  Ramon  de  la  Sagra  (Hist.  fl>yt.. 
Sec,  de  nie  de  Cute}  Paris,  fol.,  184a); 
LtLiwtL  (Giographie  du  Moyen-Age, 
Brux.,  3  vols.,  8vo,  l8ja,  atlas,  map  41) ; 
Humboldt  (Exam.  Crit.,  Paris,  ed.  of 
1836-8). 

zd.  ZiiGLER,  Lib.  de  regioniius  septen- 
trion.,  Antwerp,  8vo,  1542. 

3d.  The  map  quoted  by  Ortelius  in  his 
catalogue  of  authors  ( Theatrum,  Antwerp, 
fbl.,  1570)  in  these  words : 

"  Sebastianus  Cabotus  Venetus,  Vniuer- 
salem  tabulam ;  quam  impressam  aeneis 
fbrmis  vidimus,  sed  sine  nomine  loci,  & 
impressoris." 

(That  extremely  valuable  document,  in 
its  original  form,  or  an  inedited  map  of 
Cabot,  is,  we  are  informed,  on  exhibition 
in  one  of  the  halls  of  the  Bibliothijue  Im- 
piriale  of  Paris.  If  our  information  is 
correct,  would  it  not  be  worth  the  while  of 
some  enterprising  publisher  in  this  country 
to  have  it  engraved  ?  Perhaps  it  is  bold 
to  assert  that  the  patriotic  bibliophiles 
who  give  so  readily  enormous  prices  for 
such  trash  as  the  spurious  reprints  of  the 
&i/»R  fyitchcraft  might  feel  tempted  to 
purchase  a  copy !) 

The  "  Sebastiano  Cabota.  Navigaiione 
nel/e  parte  tetlentrionali }  Venice,  1583," 
included  in  the  early  catalogues  of  the 
Bodleian  library,  is,  we  scarcely  need  add, 
not  to  be  found  as  a  separate  work,  but 
only  in  the  second  volume  of  Ramusio  (ed. 
of  1583,  fol.  III).  Foscarini  (Letterat. 
veaett.  p.  438)  and  Tiraboschi  (Vol.  vil. 


p.  263),  had  already  shown  that  it  was 
erroneously  ascribed  to  Cabot  j  but  Mr. 
Biddle  (Memoir,  p.  327),  showed  that  it 
was  only  "  the  Journal  of  Stephen  Bur- 
rough  during  his  two  voyages  to  the  North- 
east, with  an  absurd  introduction  from 
some  anonymous  writer  at  Venice !" 

The  reader  will  find  a  valuable  list  of 
works  relating  to  Cabot  in  a  note  to 
Humboldt's  Examen  Critifue,  Vol.  iv,  pp. 
231,  232. 

•'  Exam.  Crit.,  Vol.  ir,  p.  200;  Vol. 
V,  p.  46.  Vaknhagen,  Historia  General 
do  Brazil,  Rio  de  Janeiro  or  Madrid,  2 
vols.,  8vo,  1852;  D'AytZKQ^  considera- 
tions giogr.  sur  rhist.  du  Brest/,  Paris,  8vo, 
1857.  There  is  a  full  list  of  works  re- 
lating to  Pinzon,  Vespuccius,  and  Paria  or 
Brazil,  in  the  second  volume  of  L'Oyafoc 
et  rAmaaine,  by  Gaetano  da  Silva,  Paris, 
8vo,  1S61. 

"  "  M.ccccLXXXix  (sic)  Maij  die,"— St. 
Die  edit.,  recto  of  d  iii ;  Gkun.,  verso  of 
E  6 ;  La  Pl.,  verso  of  E  7 ;  Gryn.,  p.  1 69 
— meaning,  evidently,  1499. 

"  "16.  di  Maggio  1499" — Band.,  p. 
33  ;  Grenv.  codex,  verso  of  b.  ii. 

*•  "  xvill  di  Maggio," — f^iaggi,  p.  50; 
Letter  to  P.  F.  de  Medici,  apud  Bandini, 

F-  65- 

"  "  XIX  dies," — St.  Die  edit.,  recto  of 
d  iii ;  Grun.,  verso  of  E  6 ;  La  Pl.,  verso 
of  E  7  ;  Gryn.,  p.  169. 

"  "  44.  giorni," — Band.,  p.  33;  Grenv. 
codex,  verso  of  b  ii. 

*'  "  al  capo  di  xxilli  di," — Viaggio,  p. 
51 ;  Letter  to  P.  F.  de  Medici,  apud  Ban- 
dini, p.  65. 

"  "  viij.  mensis  Septembris," — St.  Die 
edit.,  recto  of  e  i ;  Grus.,  verso  of  F  iii  ; 
La  Pl.,  recto  of  F iii;  Gryn.,  p.  175. 

"  Bandini,  p.  45. 

"  '«  8  di  G\u%ao,"—inaggi,  p.  81 


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The  third  voyage  was  undertaken  for  the  King  of  I  ^O 
Portugal.  The  expedition  sailed  probably  under  Cabral  -  — 
(HumMdf),  from  Lisbon,  May  loth,  1501  (Hylacomy- 
lus"-,  Valori-BandinP%  or  May  13th,  1501  {Canovai'*)y 
or  June  loth  [Temporal).  Reached  land  August  17th 
[Hylacomylus^y  Canovai)^  or  August  ist  {Valori-Ban- 
dint")y  or  August  7th,  1501^,  or  simply  after  a  voy- 
age of  sixty-four  days  (Bar/olozzi^) .  Returned  to  Lis- 
bon, after  a  voyage  of  sixteen  months,  in  1502  (Hy- 
lacomyius^)y  or  September  7th,  1502  {yalori-Bandin^'y 
Canovai) . 

The  fourth  voyage  was  also  undertaken  for  the  King 
of  Portugal,  and  the  expedition  sailed  from  Lisbon, 
probably  under  Gonzales  Coelho  {Humbold^^y  Southef^^ 


"  Exam.  Crit.,  Vol.  V,  p.  5.  The 
reader  may  consult  with  advantage  coa- 
cerning  Cabral :  Barkos.  DecaJas;  Lisbon, 
8vo,  1778,  Dec.  I,  lib.  1,  cap.  30;  \l.\i- 
Fzi,  Histor.  hdica,  Cologne,  fol.,  1593, 
lib.  z ;  Faria  y  Souza,  Aiia  Purfjgarza, 
Lisb.,  fol,  1666;  Vol.  I,  cap.  5;  Lafi- 
TAU,   Conjuetes  des  Portugaii,   Paris,  4x0, 

>733- 

'*  "  Die  Maij  decima.  M.cccc.  &  pri- 
mo," — St.  Die  edit.,  recto  of"  e  ii ;  Grcn., 
recto  of  F  iiii ;  La  Pl.,  yeno  of  F  iii ; 
Gryn.,  p.  176. 

"  "  10    di  Maggio,  1501,"  Ba»d.,  p. 

47- 

'*  "13  di  Maggio,  1 50 1,"  yiaggi,  p. 
loi  ;  id..  Duplicate  to  Soderini,  in   Bah- 

OINI,  p.   lOI. 

"  Hisloriale  dtuription  dt  PAfrijiu  ; 
Lyons,  fol.,  1556,  p.  466;  id.,  Paris,  4 
vols.,   8vo,  1830. 

"  "  xvij  scilicet  August!," — St.  Die  ed., 
verso  of  e  ii  J  GiuN.,  recto  of  F  iiii ;  La 
Pl.,  verso  of  F  iii ;  Gryn.,  p.  176;  yi^gi, 
p.  102. 

"  "  Adi  I.  d'Agosto," — Bandini,  p.  48. 

"  "  7.  di  Agosto  del  1501." — Duplicate 
to  Soilerini,  in  Band.,  p.  103. 

"  Ricerche  istorico-criiiche ;  Flor.,  440, 
1789,  p.  169. 

'"  "  XVI.  circiter  menses,  M.D.ij," — 
St.  Die  edit.,  recto  of  f  iii ;  Gro.mg., 
verso  of  F  6  i  La  Pl.,  recto  of  F  6  j  Grtk., 
p.  180. 


"  "  7  di  Settembre  del   1502,"  Band. 

P-S';  ''''K'lP-  •°9- 

"  Examtm  Oitijmt,  Vol.  T,  p.  14a. 

**  Histiry  cf  Braxilf  Lond.,  4x0,  18 10, 
Vol.  I,  p.  lO. 

"  Goszalo  C0U.LO,  szbio  coiniografo 
Pomgoci.  qiie  Aie  per  orden  del  rejr 
Don  Man1  de  Portugal  a  esplorar  y  re- 
conocer  los  poatos  de  la  America  nu- 
eTamente  descnbierta,  como  las  costum- 
brej  y  ritos  de  sns  natiirales.  Salio  de 
Leboa  nundando  ana  Escuadra  de  seis 
naTia<  j  reconocio  con  juicio  sabio  y  ob- 
serracion  de  cnrioso  coanro  era  digno  de 
sabenc.  tomando  posoion  en  nombre  de 
sa  Soberano  y  escnbio  la  relacion  de  cuanto 
habla  risto,  qoe  piesento  al  rey  Don  Juan 
id  por  haber  mncrto  su  Padre  coando 
toItio.  Dacrifcitu  dtl  Braul.  MS.  fol." 
— Alcedo,  Biblinaa  Americana.  Cata- 
Itgi  dt  In  jfitirti  <jnt  kan  cicrito  dt  la 
Amirica  tm  dijeremtts  idimas.  1 807.  2 
Tols.,  MS.,  fiJ.,  Vd.  I,  page  208.  Private 
Ubrarr,  Providence  (Lord  Kingsborough's 
copy  I. 

The  reader  may  consult,  concerning 
Coelho's  Toyagei : 

Damiaxo  de  Goes,  Ckrtnica  do  Jaai 
//;  Lisbon,  fol.,  1567. 

P.  DB  Marie,  Dialtgtt  dt  varia  Hitloria  ; 
CcKmbra,  8to.  1594;  410,  1597;  Lisb., 
410,  1674,  Vol.  III. 

Vascdncuxos,  Vida  del  Rey  D.  Joan 
II  ;  Madrid,  4(0,  1639. 


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May  loth,  1503  {Hylacomy/us^*^  Falori- Banditti ^  Canovai). 
Was  wrecked,  August  loth,  on  the  coast  of  the  island 
of  San  Fernando  Noronha,  or  Pefiedo  de  San-Pedro,  or 
the  imaginary  island  of  Saint  Matthews.  Returned  to 
Lisbon,  June  28th,  1504  (//v/rffowv /«/'),  or  June  i8th, 
1 504  {Valori-Bandini^',  Canovai). 

How  can  we  account  for  these,  and  an  infinite  num- 
ber of  other  discrepancies  ?  They  are,  says  Humboldt^'', 
"  I'eftet  du  desordre  de  la  redaction  et  des  gloses  ajou- 
tees  par  d'ignorans  ou  zeles  commentateurs." 

The  four  voyages  were  published  for  the  first  time 
together  in  a  kind  of  appendix  to  a  Latin  work  on  Cos- 
mography'^ by  one  Waldsee-miiller,  rt//rtjHylacomylus,  in 
1507,  which  also  contains,  so  far  as  known,  the  princeps 
o\  x\\Q  first  and  fourth  voyages.  It  is  that  work  which 
we  quote  under  the  name  of  Hylacomyhis. 

The  next  collection  of  the  four  voyages  is  in  Italian, 
and  seems  to  have  been  printed  at  Florence  about  the 
year  1516*^  We  call  the  latter  tho.  Grenville  codex,  from 
its  last  possessor,  Mr.  Thomas  Grenville.  This  Italian 
collection  was  republished  by  Bandini'^  and  Canovai'', 
from  a  printed  copv,  which  had  on  the  title  page  the 
name  of  Baccio  Valori.  one  of  the  first  librarians  of  the 
Laurentian  library  at  Florence.  We  call  Bandini's  text 
Fakri-Bandini,  and  Canovai's  (which  we  must  quote,  as 
it  contains  new  readings  of  the  learned  abbe's  own 
manufacture),  Fiaggi. 

In   Latin,   we  again    find    the  four    voyages    in    the 

OsoKio,    De    rebus    F.mmanueiit ;    List).,  ~"  Exam.  Crit.,  Vol.  v,  p.  •;:. 

fol.,  1 57 1)  frequently  r -printed.  "  Cosmograpiitr    inlroduclio,    4to,    four 

A.  DO  Cazal,  Corogi.ifia  BrjsiUca ;  Rio  editions   or   issues   at    St.    Die,    in    1507; 

de  Janeiro,  2  vols.,  410,  18 1".  Strasburg,  1509;  Lyons,  15 10.    The  other 

"'  "  Decima  ergo  Maij  die  M.D.iij  ;" —  editions  ot"  the  same  Cosmography  do  not 

St.  Die  edit.,  verso  ot"  f  iij ;   Gkun.,  verso  contain  Vespuccius'  Voyages, 
of  F  6;   La  Pl.,  recto  of  F  6;   Grvn.,  p.         *"  Lettera  Ji  Amerigo  uespucci  delle  iso/e 

iSl;  "  adi  10.  Maggio,  1503;"  Band.,  p.  nuiuamenle  irouale   in   quattro  suoi  uiaggi, 

58;  f^iaggi,  p.  III.  4to,  sine  anno  aut  loco. 

"  "  xxviij,  Junij.  M.D.llij.," — -St.  Die  *°  Fita  e  letlere   di  Amerigo   P^eipucci ; 

edit.,  verso   of  f  5  ;  Gri'n.,  recto  of  F  8  j  Flor.,  4to,  1745,  pp.  1-153. 
La  Pl.,  verso  of  F7;  Gryn.,  p.  183.  "*  f^iaggi  iT   America  f^'espucci ;    Flor., 

"  "  18.   di   Giugno,   1504,"  Band.,  p.  8vo,    1817,   pp.    25-115,  with    dates   al- 

62;  yiaggi,  p.  114.  tered. 


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various  editions  of  Grynaeus'  Novis  orbis''^,  and  abridged    I  50s" 

in  De  Bry's  Collections  ;  the  first  and  second  voyages  in 

the  Grands'^\  the  third  and  fourth  in  the  Petits  Voy- 
ages'^. A  peculiarity  of  De  Bry's  edition  is  the  interpo- 
lation of  the  word  /lmericcf\ 

The  second  and  third  voyages  alone  have  been  printed 
separately  in  the  form  of  plaquettes,  all  within  the  first 
eight  years  of  the  sixteenth  century,  in  France  and  Ger- 
many, but  only  in  Latin  and  German.  We  describe, 
infra,  sixteen  of  those  separate  editions  ;  fourteen  of 
which,  de  visii. 

Besides  the  account  of  the  third  voyage  published  in 
the  above-mentioned  collections,  there  are  two  others, 
one  of  which  has  been  frequently  republished.  The  lat- 
ter we  call  First  Duplicate.  It  is  by  far  the  most  in- 
teresting, was  probably  printed  before  all  others,  and 
contains  astronomical  diagrams,  and  descriptions  of  an 
immodest  character.  The  reader  will  find  it  in  Ra- 
musio''',  whose  extremely  valuable  collection  also  con- 
tains a  translation  of  the  third  and  fourth  voyages  as 
given  by  Hylacomylus,  but  not  the  first  two  voy- 
ages, which  he  promised  to  publish''^,  the  MS.  having 
probably  been  lost  in  the  conflagration  which  destroyed 
the  printing  office  of  Thomas  Giunti,  at  Venice,  in 
1557'^^.  That  duplicate,  which  is  addressed  either  to 
Soderini  or  to  L.  P.  F.  de  Medici,  is  also  in  Zorzi's'''', 
Madrignano's'°°,    Ruchamer's",     Redouer's'°',    Tempo- 


"  Novus  ortis  regionum  ac  insularum, 
'veieribut  incc^nitarum  f   Basle,   fi>l.,    1532, 

M'??.  «555;  P->r'^,'  f"'->  "53^;  Rotter- 
dam, 8vo,  1616.  The  preamble  or  pre- 
fatory letter  is  only  to  be  found  in  the  edi- 
tions of  1555  and  1616.  It  is  wanting  in 
the  following  : 

"  America  pan  decima.  Dua  navigai. 
Dn.  Amrrici  f^esputii ;  Oppenheim,  fol., 
1619. 

••  Indite  orienlalis  pars  undecima.  Du- 
arum  navig.  rjuas.  .  .  .  ami.  1501  Dn, 
Americus  yesputius  instituit,  hiitoria  ;  Op- 
penheim, fol.,  1619,  pp    5-10. 

"  "  Qui  cum  illis  comparari  possint  vix 


tota  America  reperiantur,"  page  11 ;  "mais 
cette  expression  ne  ?e  trouve  que  dans 
I'edition  des  de  Bry," — Camus,  Mimcires 
sur  la  Collection  des  grands  et  Perils  foy- 
agesf   Paris,  4to,  1S02,  p.  140. 

"'  Sommario  die  due  na-vigazioni  di  Ame- 
rigo Vespucci  j  Rarcolta,  Vol.  i,  p.   1 18. 

"  Raccolra,  Vol.  iii,  p.  310. 

'*  FoscARiNi,    Delia    Lett.    I'tncaiana 
Padoua,  fol.,  1752. 

"  Paesi  nouam.  retrov.,  cap.  I14-123. 

""  Iti-:erar.    Vortugall.,    cap.     I15-124, 
fol.  LXX. 

'"'  Sensuyl  le  monde  d'Emeric  de  Vespuce, 
fol.  LXXI. 


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Bibliotheca  Americana. 
Grynaeus's'"*,    Bandini's,    and    Canovai's  collec- 


The  other  letters  ascribed  to  Vespuccius  are  all  mod- 
ern publications  The  first  is  a  duplicate  account  of 
the  second  voyage,  which  was  first  published  by  Ban- 
dini'°',  from  a  manuscript  in  the  Riccardiana  library. 

The  second  letter  gives  a  duplicate  account  of  the 
third  voyage,  and  was  printed  for  the  first  time  by  Bar- 
tolo7//i'\ 

The  third  is  a  letter  addressed  to  L.  P.  F.  de  Medicis, 
from  Cape  Verd,  June  4th,  1501,  and  published  from  a 
manuscript  in  the  Riccardiana,  by  the  Count  BaldeIli'°^ 

There  is  a  fourth,  describing  Vasco  da  Gama's  voy- 
age, but  it  is  rejected  altogether  by  all  the  critics  since 
Bandini,  who  first  published  that  spurious  account. 

Vespuccius  certainly  wrote  a  great  deal'°',  but  he  is  not 
the  author  of  the  accounts  of  his  voyages  which  have 
been  transmitted  to  us.  As  to  the  above-mentioned 
letters,  not  only  the  original  text  is  lost,  but  we  do 
not  even  know  in  what  language  they  were  originally 
written.  That  two  of  those  important  documents  were 
composed  at  Lisbon  does  not  admit  of  much  doubt, 
but  whether  in  Portuguese,  Spanish,  Italian  or  Latin, 
no  one  can  determine;  although  some  critics  endeavor 
to  satisfy  all  parties  by  asserting  that  the  first  two  were 
written  in  the  language  of  Spain,  and  the  last  two  in 


""  Navlgationum  Alherici  fespuiii  f/i/'- 
romf,  p.  87,  ed.  ot"  1555.  We  do  not  find 
any  earlier  version  in  English  than  that 
which  is  in  the  third  volume  of  Robert 
Kerr's  collection  ;  Edinburgh,  Svo,  1811, 
pp.  341-382,  from  Hylacomylus's  text. 
In  German,  besides  Kerr's  version  of  the 
Novus  Orhis,  we  think  that  only  the  du- 
plicate of  the  third  voyage  is  inserted  in 
Voss,  /illeralteite  Nachrichi  von  der  neuen 
H^elt;  Berlin,  Svo,  1722,  while  the  four 
voyages  and  duplicates  are  in  the  German 
translation  of  Bandini,  Hamburg,  1748. 
The  four  v<.y.iges  are  also  in  the  third 
volume  of  Navarrete's  Coleccion,  text  and 
translation    from   Griiniger's   edition   (pp. 


1 90-290) ;  and  in  a  rehash  of  Canovai,  pub- 
lished in  English,  New  Haven,  Svo,  1852. 

'"'  "  inJiriazatii  a  Lorenzo  Ji  Pier  Fran- 
cesco Je  Medici,  l^ita,  pp.  64-86  ;  Cano- 
vai substitutes  this  in  the  room  of  the  Va- 
lori  or  Grenville  second  voyage  (/''iciggi, 
pp.  50-69),  which  he  places  immediately 
afterwai-U. 

1"^  ,'.  Milione di  Marco  Polo}  Flor.,  4to, 
1827,  Vol.  I,  pp.  Liii,  note. 

'"'PocciASTI,  Catalog.  Script.  Florent.  ; 
Flor.,4to,  1589,  p.  10;  HvMBOLDT,  Exam. 
Crir.,  Vol.  IV,  p.  170,  sj.  for  extracts  from 
Vespuccius'  letters,  and  the  evidence  given 
by  John  Vespuccio  tAmericus's  nephew), 
in  the  Irformacion,  Nav.,  Vol.  iii. 


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that  of  Portugal.  Be  that  as  it  may,  the  Hylacomylus  150!!. 
version  was  made  from  a  French  text:  "  de  "■I'g"-' 
gallico  in  latinum;"  the  one  in  the  Itinerarium,  from 
the  Portuguese:  "  Fidus  intcrpres  presens  opus  e  Lusi- 
tano  italicum  fecit;"  that  in  the  Unbekanthe  Landte, 
from  an  Italian  text,  which  itself  was  only  a  transla- 
tion from  the  Spanish :  "  Auss  hyspanier  sprache  ist 
discs  fiinfte  buchlein  in  die  welysche  sprache  gewanderr,  ^ 

und  /.u  letze  auss  der  welyschen  in  die  dewtschcn  ge- 
bracht."  As  to  Lambert's  (No.  26),  Gourmont's  (No. 
28),  and  Otmar's  (No.  31)  editions,  they  all  are  "ex 
Italica  in  linguam  Latinam." 

After  a  diligent  study  of  all  the  original  documents, 
we  feel  constrained  to  say  that  there  is  not  a  particle  of 
evidence,  direct  or  indirect,  implicating  Americus  Ves- 
puccius  in  an  attempt  to  foist  his  name  on  this  con- 
tinent. In  our  notice  of  the  various  editions  of  the 
Cosmographiie  introductio  we  will  give  the  "  genesis"  of 
that  unjust  appellation.  We  have  now  to  mention  the 
leading  works  which  contain  assertions  for  or  against 
Vespuccius. 

The  first  attempt  to  tarnish  the  reputation  of  the 
Florentine  cosmographer  was  made  by  Schoner'"'',  in 
1533,  twenty-one  years  after  the  death  of  Vespuccius. 
It  was  repeated  with  increased  violence  by  Servetus*'', 
Herrera'°',  Fray  Pedro  Simon""*,   Solorzano'"^,  Charle- 


voix"", Stuvenius' 


,  Totzen"^, 


Robertson'",  Meusei"-*, 


Tiraboschi"',  Formaleone'"',    Munoz,    do   CazaP'   (the 


ur.,  4t'S 


'"'  Opuuulum  gengraphicum  ;  Nuremb.. 
4to,  1533,  Part  II,  caps,  i  and  xx. 

'»'  Decade  I,  lib.  vn,  cap.  ;. 

""  Coii-juuidi  kisiorid!es ;    Cuenca,  fol., 
1627,  Hart  I,  pp.  18-26. 

'"'  Diifuruiionts  Jt  Indiarum  lure;  Mad- 
rid, fol.,  1629,  lib.  r,  cap.  iv. 

'"  Histoirt   de  I'lsU-Esfagmlti    Paris, 
4to,  1730,  Vol.  I,  page  311. 

Diiserl.  di  uen   novi  crh.    invent. } 
Francf.,  8vo,  1714. 


"°  Dei  ivahre  und  crsle  Enldecker  f  Got- 
ting.,  8v(i,  1761. 

'"  Hislr.ry  of  America ;  Lundon,  Svo, 
1826,  p.  49. 

"*  Bihliolheca  Aislorica,  Yo\.  Ill,  I'art  1, 
p.  265. 

'"  Star  ill  della  Lciteratura  Italiana;  Vol. 
VI,  p.  186. 

'"  Saggio  mlla  naulica  antica  de'  Irenes. ; 
Venice,  4to,  1783  ;  and  in  French,  Venice, 
Svo,  1788. 


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I  50',     most  bitter  of  all),  Navarrete,  Santarem"^,  and  a  host  of 

I  others. 

The  Nova  Ada  eruditorum"'^  cite  in  favor  of  Vespuccius 
one  "Americi  Cinellius"'"',  Vasari"",  Mcllini'",  Alber- 
ti'",  Metellius'",  Manni'^della  Rcna"',  and  Hondius'"'; 
nearly  all  of  whom  are  taken  from  Bandini,  who 
quotes,  besides,  in  favor  of  his  hero,  Bocchi"',  Cluver'**, 
Mariana'"',  Genebrier"°,  Salvini"',  "  Padre  della  Fio- 
rentina  erudizione,"  and  the  introuvable  Giov.  Matteo 
Toscano"';  to  which  list  we  must  add  the  poet  Barto- 
lomei'",  Ruscelli"*,  J.  de  Lery'",  Natalis  de  Comiti- 
bus"*,    Pighius"^,   and    all    the   editions   of  Ptolemy's 


"'  Recherchii  Hilt.,  Critifueitt  BiHiogr. 
lur  Americ  f^eifuct  tt  lei  voyagei ;  Paris, 
8v<>,  n.  d.  i  trinsUted,  Buston,  izmo, 
1850. 

"•For  Aug.,  1749;  l.cipz.,4to,  p.  483. 

'"hit  not  Giovanni  Cine/ii,  the  con- 
tinuator  of  Francesco  Bocchi  (Bel/eze 
dtlla  ciia  di  Firenzt  f  Flor.,  8vo,  1677), 
who  ii  intended  ? 

"•  Le  vilt  de'  fiii  exctl.  pitlori  f  Flor., 
4to,  1568,  Part  III. 

"'  Denrizione  dtlla  entrata  della  regina 
Giovanna  J'Auilria;  Flor.,  4to,  1566. 

These  three  last  works  are  chiefly 
quoted  for  the  portraits  of  Vespuccius,  or 
the  honors  paid  to  his  memory. 

'"  Deicrizzione  di  tulla  Italia  ;  Bologna, 
fol.,  1550;  Venice,  4to,  1553,  1568,  and 
1581. 

"•  Preface  to  his  edition  of  Osorius, 
di  rebut  Emmanuel,  i  Cologne,  8vo,  1 574, 
'75,  "76,  '81,  '86. 

"*  Dt  Florent.  Invent,  comment,  f  Fer- 
rara,  4to,  1 731,  cap.  42. 

"'Delia  Serie  de  gli  antic,  due.  di'  Tos- 
eana ;  Flor.,  fol.,  1690;  4to,  1764. 

"*  Nova  Italia!  Hodiernia  Descript,  ; 
Leyden,  fol.,  1627. 

'"  Lihroi  duoi  Ehgior.  juit.  f^iri  alijui 
C/arriit.  Florentini ;   Flor.,  410,  1667. 

"'  Iniroduc.  in  Univert.  Geogr. ;  Ve- 
nice, i6mo,  1646;  Amst.,  4to,  1661,  lib. 
VI,  c.  xl,  n.  J. 

"*  Hiitoria,  lib.  xxvi,  cap.  iii. 

'"  Chronographitt  "  LL.  iv.  Priores  11."  j 
Paris,  fol.,  1580)  Lyuni,  fol.,  1 599,  inno 
«497- 


'"  Faiti  coHtolari  dell'  acad.  Fiorent.  ; 
Flor.,  4to,  1 71 7. 

'"Also  cited  by  Saxius  {Onomaiiieon, 
Vol.  Ill,  p.  14),  under  the  titlu  of  Peplui 
halite  L.  I.  n.  xLvi.  p.  414. 

"'  L' America f  poema  eroico  f  Rome,  410, 
1650. 

"*  La  Geogr afia  di  CI.  Tolomeof  Venice, 
4to,  1561. 

'"  Hiitoria  Navigation,  in  Bratiliam, 
I2mo,  I  585. 

"*  UnivertiV  hilt,  lui  icmporii  f  Venice, 
4to,  1572. 

"'  j^fuinoctiorum  de  tolititior.  invent.  ; 
Paris,  4to,  1520. 

Barcia-Pinelo  {Epitome,  col.  573) 
quotes  PiEORA-HiTA,  Hiitoria  del  Nuefo 
Reino  de  Granada  [Antwerp,  fol.,  1688], 
lib.  I,  c.ip.  I,  fol.  2;  A.  DE  Calancha, 
Chronica  del  \ord.  de  S.  /luguit.  <•»]  Peru 
[Barcelona,  fol.,  1638],  lib.  1,  cup.  4; 
Garcia,  Origen  de  hi  Indioi  [Valenci.i, 
8vo,  1607;  Madrid,  fol.,  I729],  Proemio  ; 
and  Cardenas  y  Cano,  [pseudonym  for 
Bakcia  K\mit\i\,  Eniayo  Chronologico  [Ma- 
drid, fol.,  1723),  introd.  Negri  {Istorij, 
p.  31)  cites  Gadius,  de  ikriptor.  non  Ec- 
cleiiait.  [Flor.  and  Paris,  fol.,  1648-49]  ; 
and  "  Th.  Lansius,  Coniuliatione  de  Prin- 
cipatu  inter  Pruv.  Europ." 

The  reference  in  Saxius  (Onomaiiieon, 
Vol.  Ill,  p.  14)  to  Magirus,  Eponymol. 
Crit.,  leads  only  to  Ue  Thou. 

Mr.  Caleb  Gushing  [Reminiicencei  of 
Spain,  Vol.  II,  p.  235,  iq.)  quotes  Rocha 
Pitta,  W;jr.  da  America  Portuguexa  [Lisb., 
fol.,  1730],  p.  24  j  Lipsius,  Phytiol.  Sloic.i 


m 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


f^l 


Geography,  from   Beneventanus'  (1508)   to  that  edited    150'. 
by  the  unfortunate  Servetus,  ■■"'■     - 

All  of  which  authorities,  pro  et  con,  are  more  than 
counterbalanced  by  the  great  Humboldt,  who,  in  his 
Examen  Critique,  Cosmos'^*,  and  in  the  Bulletins  de  la  Societe 
de  Geographic'^'',  has  shown  conclusively  that  no  proof 
whatever  has  yet  been  adduced  to  incriminate  Americus 
Vespuccius. 

The  assaults  on  the  reputation  of  the  Florentine 
cosmographer  are  generally  bitter  and  periodic.  A  re- 
markable recrudescence  was  inadvertently  caused  to- 
wards the  end  of  the  last  century  by  the  French  Em- 
bassador at  Florence,  Count  de  Durfort,  who,  in  1788, 
offered  a  premium  to  be  conferred  by  the  Academy  of 
Cortona  for  the  best  eulogium  of  Americus  Vespuc- 
cius, and  which  was  awarded  to  Stanislaus  Canovai. 
The  boldness  of  the  Abbe  s  oration'^"  brought  a  reply 
from  an  anonymous  writer'*',  followed  by  a  rejoinder, 
ascribed  to  Canovai'*',  a  complete  refutation  by  Barto- 
lozzi'*',  a  sur-rejoinder  by  the  laureate'**,  another  reply 
by  Llorente'*',  and  a  number  of  other  pamphlets,  keep- 
ing up  the  fire  until  the  publications  of  Napione, 
Belloro,  &c.,  and  even  afterwards.'*''  Judging  from 
sonie  gentle  hints  lately  given  by  the  English  and  Amer- 
ican periodicals,  we  seem  to  be  threatened  with  a  re- 


cencci  of 
Is  RoCHA 
\a  [Lisb., 
\l.  Stoic,  i 


[Wejel,  1675J,  lib.  n,  dis.  19,  t.  iv,  p. 
947  [and  Leydcn,  izmo,  1644,  Vul.  11, 
p.  ijjl  ;  Bakl.«us,  Rei  gfHit  '"  Brasilia 
[Cleves],  I  2mo,  1660,  p.  14  j  Ensl,  In- 
dia Occident.  Hiitor.;  Cologne,  limo,  i6l2, 
p.  13OJ  PiZARRo,  faronts  i/luitrrs  [Mad- 
rid], fol.,  1639,  p.  50.  To  which  list 
may  be  added  Vossrus,  De  Nalura  Arti- 
um  ;  Amsterd.,  fol.,  1696,  p.  53;  Ue 
Thou,  Hittoire  universale;  London,  4to, 
Vol.  I,  p.  3. 

""  Oceanic  Discoveriei,Yo\.  11,  exhaust- 
ive note  at  the  close  of  the  chapter. 

'"  Paris,  for  Dec,  1835,  p.  411. 

"°  Elogio  d" Amerigo  P'eifucci  ;  Flor., 
4to,  1788  J  iJ.,  1790. 


'*'  Annotazione  linctre  dilP  elogio  pre- 
miata  di  Amerigo  Vespucci  per  una  seconda 
eJizione  f  in  Santarem,  p.  150. 

'*'  Letiera  alio  Stampat.  Sig.  P.  Al/e- 
g'ini,  ,1  name  dell'  autore  deW  'logio  prem. 
di  Am.  Fespucci  i  Flor.,  8vo,  1789. 

'*•  Apologia  delle  Ricerche  ittorico-crit- 
icht  i  Flor.,  8vo,  1789. 

'*•  Difensa  d' Amerigo  l^espuccio  ,•  Flor., 
limo,  1796,  15  pp. 

'"  ^"SH'o  Afologetico,  degli  storici  e 
conquisiatori  Spagn.  dell'  America;  Florence 
and  Naples,  8vo,  1796. 

'"  Trucchi,  Dii  primi  scopritori  del 
nuovo  continente  Americano ;  Flor.,  8vo, 
1842,  80  pp. 


— -~  1-^^^^^^  y" 


150: 


68 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


lapse.     Let  us  hope  that  this  time  some  tangible  facts 
will  be  adduced. 


Dirtct  r,-hrencti 


Bibliotheca  Grenvi/Iiana,  page  766. 

Bihliotheca  Browniana,  No.  II. 

Serapeum  for  January   ist,  1861. 

Hibbert  Catalogue,  page  461,  No.  8376.  (  ? ) 

Notes  on  Columbui,  A,  p.ige  28. 

Brun'.t,  Vol.  V,  col.   1 1 54,  although  the  spelling  is  somewhat 

different,  and  he  ascribes  to  the  plaquette  forty-two  lines  in- 

•tead  of  forty, 


^ 


I 
\ 


I 


23.     VESPUCCIUS  (^MERICUS)—Ferso  of  the  first  leaf: 

|llttttl>tt0    tt0tttt0JI 

ALBERICVS  VESPVTIVS  LAVRENTIO||  PE- 
TRI DE  MEDICIS  SALVTEM  PLVRI- 1|  MAM 
DICIT.Il 

Then  the  text  on  the  same  page,  beginning  with  a  capital  S  in  an 
ornamented  wood-cut. 

*  *  Sm.  4to,  sine  loco  aut  anno,  four  leaves ;  forty-two  lines  in  a 
full  page,  text  in  black  letter,  no  signatures.  The  last  page 
has  at  the  top  the  sentence :  "  Ex  italiai"  Sec,  &c.  ;  then 
"  LAVS  DEO,"  followed  by  the  triangle. 

(Private  Liorary,  New  York.) 

Dirict  references:  (  Serapeum  for  January  1st,  1861. 
\  Notes  on  Columbus,  D,  page  19. 


24.     VESPUCCIUS  {AMERICUS)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf : 

aii)rvicus ITf fputius  iLaurcntio  |3etri|ltie  metiidg 
^alutvin  pUitimam  tririt.H 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


69 


#     Sm,  4to,  sine  anno  aut  loco,  four  leaves;  forty  lines  in  a  full     I  CQ-. 
page,  no  signatures.     The  veno  of  the  last  leaf  has  twenty-six         ^ 
lines  of  text,  then  the  sentence  :  "Ex  Italia"  (sic),  and  at  ' 

the  end :  ^     ' 


fm^  ^<rD 


(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


Dirtct  rtferencti :  I  Serapcum  for  January  ist,  1861. 
\  Notci  on  Columbus,  E,  page  30. 


2  5 .     VESPUCCIUS  (AMERICUS)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

c  Mundus  nouus  ii 

Verso  : 

c  Mundus  nouus  de  natura  & 

mollrifjtts  r  metis  ilr  generis  gentis  (jue  \xi  nouo 
miilltro  opera  r  impeufis  fereniffimi  i^ortugadie 
i^ellgis  fuper  [j/V]  annis  inuento.H 

CEltericus  befputius  Eaureuti  opetri  i»e  ||  inetii= 
cis  S'alutem  plurimam  liieit.||* 

%*  Sm.  8vo,  sine  anno  aut  loco,  eight  leaves;  thirty  lines  in  a  full 
page;  no  water-mark;  very  large  ornamented  initials;  no 
diagram;  on  y  one  signature,  which  is  on  the  second  leaf,  viz   • 

"'L  /I/L  .^'.  '7-  a'nd  ;'"""  '""  °'  '^^'^  "^^  ^^"^^""' 

(ruaustreo.ll 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

Dirtct  refcremts :  (  Bihliothca  Grtn-vUliana,  page  766. 
\  Notes  on  Columbus,  G,  page  30. 


concerning  the  people   of  the  new  world     gal'In  former  yeirl"  ^'"'''  "' '^"""- 


«#»  ' 


yo  Bibliotbeca  Americana. 

I  50! .  26.   yESPUCCIUS   (AMERICUS)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

Jllb^rif^  t>^fl»um9  laurHtu  n 

petri  francifcide  medicis  Salutem  plurima 

dicitll 

Then  within  a  border  Felix  Baligault's  mark,  viz. :  two  monkeys 
at  the  foot  of  a  tree,  from  which  hangs  a  kind  of  carpet-bag,  with 
the  word: 


and  below 


fiflir  II 
^t\)m  lamb^rtii 

*j^*  Sm.  4to,  title  and  text,  six  leaves,  in  Roman  type,  verso  of  the 
last  leaf  blank.  The  sentence,  "  ex  italiaca  [j/V]  .  .  ."  oc- 
curs at  the  end  of  the  text.     Forty  lines  in  a  full  page. 

(Private  Library,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

Jehan  Lambert  exercised  his  art  at  Paris  from   1493 
to  1 5 14. 


Dirtct  rtfertncti  ; 


Camus,  Mimoirei  sur  De  £ry,  page  129. 

DiBDiN,  Library  Companion,  (2d  edit.),  Vol.  I,  page  380,  note. 
Bibliolheca    Grenvilliana,   page    766,   and    Brunet,   Vol.   v,    col. 
1 1 55,  line  17,  describe   only  a  copy  of  this   No.   26,  but  with  a 

spurious  title. 
Notii  on  Cclumbut,  B,  page  29, 


3 


27.    yESPUCCIUS  {AMERICUS)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

|l(ttnl»ud  1l0ttit0ii 

Then  the  complicated  mark  and  mottoes  of  Denys  Roce. 
yerso  of  the  title  page : 

|ltun)>u0  nmnm 

tre  natura  mm\V>  ct  ceteris  ilr  gellneris  getig  q  in 
nouo  mtttio  opa  limllp^fist  fetenniffimi  portugallie 


<5^ 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  7, 

regis II fupedodbus  annfs  fnufto aifteri-jl cu« iJef-   iro^ 
putitts  iLauri^tio  petri  ire  m\\m%  Salutem  pittri====^ 
mam  tiint.|| 

«nd  IS  now  in  the  British  Museum.         V    V    ^y  01  m.  j.ibri, 

"  Denis  Roce  ou  Rosse,  dont  nous  avons  des  imores 
sions    a  impnme  a  Paris,  depuis  1490  W^  X  " 
says  Santander/  yet  the  PA^r.«^«  of  PeterDesDo^; 
so  much   pnzed    by  bibliophiles,    bears     he   imS: 

iXSwi  hThatlTh     "  P""'"'^  "^g"^"^'  -J^^*^^  - 
ucncicai  with  that  in  the  present  copy  of  Vespuccius. 


28.    yESPUCCIUS  (AMERlcusy-Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

Then  the  marie  of''  %\\\t%   tie  SOUtmOnt  "^ 

Tariff  of  the  first  leaf:  ' 

.f  .m.  pomgallie  regis  fu.||p„fati6ura«nfe  So' 
SalutemllpiutimamWridi  ^*'""* 

'  i^  «  .he,a.e  whicl  adoU  ills ^aUil'n     tl\^Xt'CJ:T,T  "'  '^'°^-     ^" 


Cf 


ii^".'*^^w.'.  v.'pt-'" 


nm   M^miw 


■•PI-     ilH^i  » 


ya  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

f  ro^.  Then  the  text,  which  ends  on  verso  of  the  last  leaf  with; 

'  dLAVS  DEO  II 


I 


***  Very  small  8vo,  sine  anno  aut  loco,  eight   leaves,  thirty-one 
lines  in  a  full  page.     An  elegant  book ;  unique  copy  thus  far. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


\v. 


We  are  inclined  to  affix  a  comparatively  late  date  to 
this  edition  of  what  seems  to  us  the  first  duplicate  of 
Vespuccius'  third  voyage.  Gilles  de  Gourmont  was  a 
Paris  printer  of  great  renown.  The  French  are  in- 
debted to  him  for  their  first  Greek  and  Hebrew  edi- 
tions, and  for  the  publication  of  the  earliest  book  de- 
scribing public  pageantry  with  illustrations'.  We  can 
find  no  dated  work  of  his  bearing  an  earlier  imprint 
th.m  1507.  He  exercised  his  art  as  late  as  1527.  Mr. 
Brunet*  says  that  this  Vespuccius  "  doit  etre  de  I'annee 
1504  a  peu  pres." 


Direct  rcfervncei ;  T  Libri  Catalogue,  1859. 

•j  *  Manuel,  Vol.  v,  col.  1155. 
(  Notes  on  Columbus,  F,  page  30. 


t 


2Qt     VESPUCCIUS  [AMERICUS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

|Itunl»n0  I(0un0  n 

C  lie  itatura  ct  moritus  r  rrtrrisj  itr  pis  get,- 1| 
que  i  ttouo  mutro  opera  r  impffis  frrrniffimi||pov= 
tugalUe  rcgisi  fuprrioriijus  aiiis  inucnto  II 

aitericus  bcfputius  Hauretio  tie  meUicis  Salute 
plurimatrieitll 


Then  the  text. 


'  Du    Puys'   Tryumphante   et   soltmntlU     at  Bruges,  in  151 5);  tblio,  no  date  (Paris), 
tnirte  (of  Charles,  Archdulce  of  Austria,     thirty-three  woodcuts. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


73 


***  4'''»  ■"'"  '"""  ""'  ^''"''  ^"""^  leaves,  forty-four  lines  to  a  full     I  COf-t 
page  ;  on  recto  of  the  fourth  leaf  nineteen  lines  of  text ;  then  ^^^^^^^ 
the  sentence  "  Ex  italica  .  .  ."  (from  which  Brunei  omits 
several  words),  then  : 

d  ilau!9  )ieo.  II 

On  the  last  leaf  is  the  mark  of  Wm.  Vorsterman,  of  Antwerp,  at 
given  in  the  Bibliophile  Belge^,  which  edition  is  nevertheless  supposed 
(from  the  type)  not  to  have  been  printed  at  Antwerp,  but  by  some 
printer  on  the  Lower  Rhine,  and  that  Vorsterman  had  his  mark  added 
to  give  the  book  currency  in  the  Netherlands.  Water-mark,  a  kind 
of  pitcher. 

(Private  Library,  New  York,  and  Harvard  Coll.  Libr.) 

Humboldt,  in  describing  the  copy  in  the  Gottingen 
Library,  expresses  the  opinion  that  the  woodcut  repre- 
senting the  double-headed-eagle  escutcheon  with  the 
three  towers,  "parait  annoncer  le  regne  de  Philippe  II, 
fils  de  I'empereur  Maximilien,  ou  de  Charles  V ; "  yet 
the  same  woodcut  is  also  in  the  rare  Noble  science  des 
joueurs  despee,  which  bears  the  imprint  of  "  Lan  mil  cinq 
cens  et  xxxviii." 

Dirict  rifertttcet :  (  Humboldt,  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  v,  page  7. 
Brunit,  Vol  V,  col.  1155. 
Paelinck  Catalogue,  Brux.,  i860. 
Nsttt  on  Columbus,  H,  page  31. 


HllUtf 


1 


30.    VESTUCCIUS  [AMERICUS)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

Bl  I  :|HUn^tt0  Il0tttt0,  Bl  I.:  [Bl. 
P,  for  verso  ?]  Eltcricus  befpuciug  ILautcntio  i^etri 
He  melltiicis  falutcm  plurimam  iicit.  ||  ^ffilpenori- 
bus— in  Bl.  a":  ipgai?— ijatentes  Bl.  2":  in— inn 

Bl.  3':  mcratilium — Figur.  wie  bei  Nr.  II  [our  No. 
^l\  angegeben.  Bl.  3" :  ^Ofitt— gUtKciailt.  Bl.  4' :  Figur. 
wie  bei  Nr.  I  [our  No.  23]  und  II — ea  HaUSt  MtQ, 
Bl.  4"  weiss." 

'  Vol.  V,  page   301. 
10 


■a 


.t 


^f^m^wm^^^ 


1*1 


74  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1 50f .  "  45  zeilen  auf  der  vollen  Seite.  Schlussworte  aller 
drei  Ausgaben  (ohne  Abkurzungen  und  abweichende 
Interpunction)  :  '  ©X  JtaUca,'  &c." 

(StRArCDM*.) 

We  copy  the  above  verbatim  et  literatim^  leaving  it 
to  the  reader  to  decipher  its  mysterious  abbreviations. 
This  extremely  rare  Vespuccius  is  in  the  Mercantile  Li- 
brary of  Hamburg.  The  others  mentioned  in  the  same 
number  of  the  Serapeum  we  describe  supra  et  infra^  from 
original  copies  and  a  fac-simile. 

1  504.     3  ^  •     ^J^SPUCCIUS  {AMERICUS)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

~^       |ltun^tt0  ltiinu0ii 

^erso  of  the  first  leaf: 

I*i^ttf{rt  II  ^^^^^  ^^  metiicis  falutem  plurimam 

IWso  of  the  fourth  leaf: 

iftagifter  ioi)ane»  otmar :  bitttJelCcc  imprpffit 
augufte  II  anno  miHefimo  quingcntcfimo  quarto.  || 

4to,  four  unnumbered  leaves ;  in  every  respect  like  No.  22, 
with  the  exception  of  the  above  colophon,  which  is  inserted 
in  place  of  the  words  Laus  deo. 

(Private  Libr.  New  York  and  Providence.) 


«   * 


Di 


irtit  riferrncei 


ZAPr,  yiugsb.   Buchdruck.,  Vol.   11,  page  16,  and  Annal.  Typogr., 

page  49. 
Panzer,  Annalei  Typogr.,  Vol.  Ti,  page  133. 
Raetzel  Catalogue,  No.  908. 
Navarreti,  CoUccion,  Vol.  iii,  page  186. 
Bibliotheca  Grcnvilliana,  page  766. 
Bibliotheca  Browniana,  No.  10. 
Ternaux,  No.  6. 
Brunet,  Vol.  V,  col.  1 1 54. 
Notes  on  Columbus,  C,  page  29. 


'  For  January,  1861. 


I 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  J$ 

3  2.    ANONYM.—"  Libretto  de  tutta  le  navigatione  de  Re    '  5^4- 


de  Spagna  le  ifoky  et  terreni  novamente  trovati,  ftampato 
in  Venezia  da  Albertino  Vercellefe  nel  1504."* 

(Zp»la'.) 

Or, 

"  Libretto  de  tutta  le  Navigazione  del  Re  di  Spagna 
delle  Ifole,  e  Terreni,  nuovamente  fcoperti.  Per  Al- 
bertino Vercellefe  di  Lifona  a  di  10  Aprile  1504,  4." 

(Cancelliibi'.) 

"  II  a  ete  vu  par  Foscarini,  Zuria  et  I'abbe  Morelli," 
says  Humboldt'.  Brunet  states*,  on  the  authority  of 
Morelli,  however,  that  it  is  only  "  une  traduction  en 
dialecte  venitien,  par  Angelo  Trivigiano  de  la  premiere 
decade  latine  d'Anghiera."  The  letter  (apud  Morelli) 
in  which  Trivigiano  confesses  that  he  has  copied  and 
translated  into  the  language  of  everybody  the  "verbose" 
account  of  Columbus'  voyages ;  and  Anghiera's  bitter 
complaints'  when  brought  together,  seem  to  fasten  the 
charge  of  plagiarism  on  Trivigiano ;  but  there  are 
several  circumstances  which  may  lead  to  a  contrary 
opinion.  In  the  first  place,  Trivigiano  was  Chancellor 
to  the  Venetian  Embassy,  and  of  course  a  frequenter  of 
the  Court ;  Anghiera,  by  his  position  as  preceptor  of 
the  royal  pages,  was  also  a  courtier,  and  being  likewise 
an  Italian  by  birth,  he  must  have  known  Trivigiano. 
If  so,  how  is  it  that  Anghiera  calls  his  plagiarist  "  Aloy- 
sius  Cadamostus?"  In  the  second  place,  there  is  at 
least  one  passage  in  the  first  Decade'',  viz. :  "  Interro- 
gati  a  me  nautae  (qui  Vicentium  Agnem  Pinzonum 
fuerant  comitati)  an  antarcticum  viderent  polum," 
which,  according  to  Humboldt,  indicates  a  redaction 

♦  Anglici :  A  short  relation  of  all   the  cwte  of  the  three  first  bookes  of  my  firtt 

navigations    of  the    King   of  Spain,   the  Deca<ie  -  -  -  -  sopposiiife  that  I  woolde 

islands    and    countries    newly   ducovered.  neoer  iune  poblTBhel  the  same" — (Eden'i 

Printed  in  Venice  by  Albertino  Vercellese  trarul^  Lonjon,  410,    1555,  and    l6iz); 

[di  Lisona],  in  15C4.  Decade  n.  Lib.  vn  and  mu 

'  "  But  he  stoule  certeyne  annotacioiu         *  Lib.  n. 


.1 


76 


Bibliotheca  Americana, 


1504.    of  a  date  later  than  1505,  whilst  the  Libretto  was  puV 

EBB-gsB-B  lished  as  early  as  1 504. 

This  work,  which  seems  to  be  now  lost,  has  been  the 
prototype  of  all  subsequent  collections  of  voyages,  down 
to  all  the  reprints  of  the  Novus  orbis,  in  which  it  is  sup- 
posed to  have  been  inserted  and  translated. 


Direct  re/trtncet  i 


'  Di  Marco  Polo  e  Jcgli  altri  viaggialori  ytne%iani,  Vol.  II,  page 

108,  note. 
'  Diueriazioni,  page  1 38,  on  the  authority  of  the  Aggiunt.  alia  Siil. 
ydante  del  Cinetii ;  "  Scaiizia"  XXXIII,  page  1 60. 

•  Examcn  Criiijue,  Vol.  IT,  page  77. 

*  Atanuel,  Vol.  I,  col.  J94. 
Napioni,  Delia palria,  ice,  page  138. 
MoRELLi,  Lettcra  rarittima,  page  43. 


I  ^05*     33»     rESPUCCIUS  [^MERICUS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf : 

%0n  bei:  netti  gefttttttbe 

faegldtt  bie  mal  ::;::LS 

ben  g^riftenlidiett  ^u  ||nig  bon  ^ortttgall  tamttttberbiirliii 
erfunben.  || 

Then  woodcut  filling  the  rest  of  the  page,  representing  the  King 
of  Portugal,  with  sceptre  and  escutcheon,  illuminated. 

Ferso  of  the  first  leaf: 

!gattirentia  ^etrl  §tancif- 

(|||be  tnebkig  bit  gmfg.H 

Recto  of  the  sixth  leaf,  after  fourteen  and  a  half  lines  of  text : 

9ltt^  (iitein  ifl  bift  midline  in  Sentfrfi  gejogennf^  bem 
e|em-|||ilat  bag  bon  tariff  !ant  t)m  maien  monet  nad| 
(S:i)rifti  gebnrt.  ^nfftjenHnnllbert  bnnb  iftnffjar.H 


Bibliotheca  Americana, 

iJr""*  '"  *""'"'"'« 'I »»"»  »"ff»««»«ll§»e-   .505. 

Then  three  escutcheons. 

V  Sm.  4to,  six  leaves,  verso  of  the  last  blank  •  fK;« 

in  a  full  page.  ""  '  '"'"y-seven  lines 

(Mercantile  Library,  Hamburg.) 

There  is  a  remarkable  facsimile  made  by  Mr  Pilin 
ski,  a  Polish  artist  residing  at  Paris. 

Diru,  r,fer...e...,^rafeumfor  January,  ,86,  (No.  .v) 
I  FrancJt'j  Catalogue,  Paris,  ,865. 

34.    yESPUCCIUS  {^MERICVS)-Rec,0  of  the  first  leaf- 

©nttUertieftui  gefunUett 

tngttl.  tuunberliand)  erfuttbeit.  \\  "      ^ 

Then,  woodcut  as  in  the  above. 

(Britisli  Museum.) 
(MS.  note  in  the  Grenville  copy  ) 

bel^te:^^  page  .hows  this  eo 

* /*'?''"•■  Concerning   the  newlv  anH  TT^       ~~,      \ 

wonderfully  discovered  region  whiThmav  rh      t"   -P'"''   *""   ''«"  '""^'«ed  from 

wtll  be  called  a  world,   by  the  Chri2„^  l!-  u^"'"    '"'°    ®"'"='".    ^om    a     cry 

Kmg  of  Portugal.         '     ^         ^'>"^"^"  wh.ch  came  from   Paris  in  the  month  of 

Albenc  Vesputius  presents  his  resoecr,  p  •^'''  ?      '  J""  "^  ^'"•'"'s  ^irth,  ,coc 

to  Laurent  Peter  Francis  de  Medid^    "  f;;."'      "  ^""""""^  ''^  ^olffgan^  lluf: 


T 

i 


78  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

^S^S'  3  5'  ^^BERTiNi  (FRANCIS  DE)-''  De  Mirabilibus  nova, 
&  veteris  Urbis  Romae.  Opus  editum  a  Francifco  de 
Albertinis  Clerico  Florentino,  tribus  Libris  divifum, 
dicatumque  Julio  II.  Pontif.  Max. ;  Rom«  per  Joan- 
nem  de  Befichen  An.  1505." 

(Negri*.) 

Although  the  above  title  is  given  with  a  certain  mi- 
nuteness, we  are  not  at  all  prepared  to  admit  it  as  authen- 
tic. The  name  of  the  printer  imparts  to  the  work  a 
suspicious  appearance.  It  is  not  known  that  John 
Besicken  printed  at  Rome  alone  after  1496,  or  even  in 
partnership  with  Martinus  of  Amsterdam  after  1501.' 

See  infra. 


36.  COLUMBUS  {CHRiSTOPHER)-Copia.  de  la  Lettera  per 
Columbo  mandata  a  li  Sereniflimi  Re  et  Regina  di 
Spagna :  de  le  infule  et  luoghi  per  lui  trouate. 

Feno  : 

Conftantio  Bayuera  Breflano  ||  A!  Magnifico  et  Clar- 
iflimo  Francefco  ||  Bragadeno  Podefta  di  Brefla  S. 

Colophon : 

Stampata  in  Venetia  (a  nome  de  Conftantio  Bayuera 
citadino  di  Brefla)  per  Simone  de  Louere.  a  di  7  di 
Mazo,  1505.  cum  priuilegio.''' 

*^*  Small  410,  eight  leaves,   the  last  of  which  is   blank;  text  in 
black  letter. 


^  htor.de  Fioretit.  Scririori,  f.  i8i.  Cnstancio  Bayuera  of  Brescia  to  the 
Santander,  Diclionnaire  Bibliogr.,  m.i  ficent  and  illustrious  Francesco  Bra- 
Part  I,  p.  153.  gadcuo,  Podesta  of  Brescia. 

*  Anglici:  Copy  of  a  letter  of  Columbo  Printed  at  Venice  for  Constancio  Bay- 
written  to  the  most  illustrious  King  and  uera  (citizen  of  Brescia),  by  Simon  de 
Queen  of  Spain,  concerning  the  islands  and  Lovere,  March  7th,  1505.  With  Privi- 
countriet  discovered  by  him.  lege. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


19 


:t  in 


Prompted  by  the  success  of  Vasco  da  Gama's  voyage,  I  5^5' 
Columbus,  fitting  out  a  new  expedition,  sailed,  taking 
with  him  his  brother  Bartholomew  and  his  own  son  and 
future  historian,  Fernando,  May  9th,  1502,  from  Cadiz 
with  four  small  caravels.  After  a  voyage  of  only  twenty- 
five  days,  the  Admiral  reached  what  is  supposed  to  be 
the  island  now  called  Martinique  ;  discovered,  July 
30th,  the  unimportant  island  of  Bonacca,  near  the  Bay 
of  Honduras;  sailed  along  the  Veragua  coast,  hoping 
yet  to  find  the  Ganges,  the  kingdom  of  the  Great  Khan, 
and  the  precise  locality  of  Paradise.  After  a  succession 
of  shipwrecks,  mutinies,  and  manifold  misfortunes,  he 
set  sail  for  Spain,  September  12th,  landing  finally  at  San 
Lucar,  November  7th,  1504,  when  he  learned,  to  his 
great  sorrow,  that  his  best  friend  and  protectress,  Isa- 
bella, had  died. 

The  above  is  a  description  of  the  events  of  this  voy- 
age (which  was  Columbus'  fourth  and  last),  only  to 
July  7th,  1503;  and  is  dated  fro*  \  Jamaica.  It  was 
originally  written  in  Spanish.  There  is  still  a  manu- 
script copy  in  that  language,  either  in  the  library  of  the 
Cuen9a  College  at  Salamanca,  or  in  the  Lonja  of  Seville. 
Navarrete  published  it  in  his  valuable  Coleccion'.  We 
have  the  authority  of  Pinelo'  for  the  assertion  that  it 
was  printed ;  but  no  such  Spanish  edition  has  yet  been 
found.  An  Italian  translation,  however,  either  from  that 
printed  original  or  from  a  MS.,  was  published  in  Italy 
very  soon  after  the  return  of  Columbus;  it  is  the  present 
No.  36. 

The  latter  had  long  been  forgotten  when  Morelli,  the 
modest,  obliging  and  erudite  librarian  of  the  St.  Mark 


the 
Bra- 

Bay- 


'  Vol.  I.  pp.  296-313. 

°  "  Hallase  otra  Carta  del  mismo  Colon, 
escrita  en  Jamaica,  a  7.  de  Junio  (sic)  de 
1503.  que  fue  su  vltimo  Viage;  de  el 
qujl,  es  Ri/acion,  embiada  a  los  Reies  Ca- 
tdlicos,  imp.  en  4  ...  La  impresa  estaba 
en  la  Libreria  He  Don  Juan  de  SaldUr- 
na."  Barcia-Pinelo,  Efilcme,Vol.  II,  col. 
565.     Lkon  Pinelo,  p.  61,  gives  Julh. 


We  have  seen  it  stated  that  Fernando 
Colombo  also  asserts  that  the  account  of 
his  father's  third  voyage  was  printed.  We 
have  examined  from  chapter  Lxxxviii  to 
the  end  of  the  Hislorii  for  the  purpose  of 
finding  such  a  reference  j  and  although 
the  last  twenty  chapters  are  devoted  exclu- 
sively to  that  remarkable  voyage,  we  failed 
to  discover  any  allusion  to  a  printed  account. 


8o 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


eo  C.  Library  at  Venice,  corrected  the  text  of  Simon  de  Lo- 
BBBMi.  vere's  edition,  and  republished  it  in  1810  under  the  title 
now  so  frequently  quoted  of  Lettera  rarissimaK  This 
reprint  contains  notes  and  extracts  of  the  utmost  interest, 
among  which  the  reader  will  notice  the  curious  biographi- 
cal sketch  of  Christopher  Columbus,  from  the  Por- 
tolano  of  Coppo  da  I  sola  (see  infra)  y  and  the  letter,  dated 
Granada,  August  21st,  1501,  and  addressed  to  Mali- 
piero  by  Angelo  Trivigiano,  Secretary  of  Domenico 
Pisani,  Venetian  Embassador  to  the  Court  of  Spain*. 

Bossi  reprinted  Morelli's  version,  which  is  also  in 
Urano's  French  edition  of  Bossi,  and  in  Daelli's  Biblio- 
theca rara\  Mr.  Major  has  inserted  the  Spanish  text 
and  an  English  translation  in  his  Select  Letters.  We 
copy  our  title  from  Brunet. 


Dirut  Ttftrttuti 


••{ 


'  Basiano,  8vo,  1810,  and  Optrtllt,  Venice,  8vo,  1820,  Vol.  1,  p. 

Magatin  EncychfiJijue  (Millin'i),  for  l8ia,  Vol.  1,  pp.  S33- 

238. 
N.  V.  Syllacio,  Appendix,  page  Ixi, 
*  Ltiiere  autograft,  Milan,  i8mo,  1863,  pp.  II5-140. 
Brunit,  Vol.  II,  col.  167. 
Graiiii,  Vol.  II,  page  228. 
Nolet  on  Columbut,  page  127. 


*  It  it  as  fulluwi : 

"  lo  ho  tenuto  tanto  mezzo,  che  ho  preso 
pracica  e  gran  amicizia  con  il  Colombo;  il 
quale  al  presentc  li  attrova  qui  in  gran  des- 
dica,  mal  in  grazia  di  questi  Re,  e  con 
pochi  denari.  Per  suu  mezzo  ho  mandato 
a  far  far  a  Palus,  che  e  un  luogo  dove  non 
abita,  salvo  che  marinari  e  uomini  pratichi 
di  quel  viaggio  del  Colombo,  una  Carta  ad 
injtanza  della  Magnificenza  Vostra ;  la 
qual  sara  benissimo  fatta,  e  copiusa  e  parti- 
colar  di  quanto  paese  e  scoperto.  C^i  non 
ce  n'e,  lalva  una  di  detto  Colombo,  ne  c 
uomo  che  ne  sappia  far.  Bisognera  tardar 
qualche  giorno  ad  aver  questa,  perche  Pa- 
los,  dove  la  se  fa,  e  lontano  da  qua  700 
miglia  :  e  poi  come  la  sara  fatta,  non  so 
come  la  potro  mandar,  perche  I'ho  fatta 
far  del  compatso  grande,  perche  la  sia  piu 
bella.  Dubito  che  '1  bisognera  che  la 
Magn.  V.  aspetti  la  nostra  venuta,  che  di 
ragione  non  doveria  tardar  multo;  che  '1 


sara  presto  uno  anno  che  liamo  fuora. 
Circa  il  Trattato  del  Viaggio  di  detto  Co- 
lombo, uno  valentuomo  1'  ha  oompotto,  et 
e  una  diceria  molto  longa.  L*  ho  copiata, 
e  ho  la  copia  appresso  di  me ;  ma  i  si 
grande,  che  non  ho  modo  di  mandaria,  le 
non  a  poco  a  poco.  Mando  al  presente 
alia  Magn.  V.  il  primo  libro,  quale  ho  tras- 
latato  in  volgare  per  maggior  sua  como- 
diti.  II  compositor  di  questa  e  lo  ambas- 
S4tor  di  questi  Serenissimi  Re,  che  va  al 
Soldano;  il  quale  vien  li  con  animo  di  pre- 
scntarla  al  Serenissimo  Prencipe  nostro,  il 
qual  penso  la  fara  stampar ;  e  cosi  la 
Magn.  y.  ne  avera  copia  perfetta." 

Angtki :  "  I  have  had  so  much  to  do 
with  Columbus  that  we  are  now  on  inti- 
mate terms,  and  I  have  a  great  friendship 
for  him.  He  is  at  present  here  in  great 
want,  out  of  favor  with  the  sovereign,  and 
with  little  money.  Through  him  I  have 
sent  to  Paloi,  a  place  where  only  sailors 


to  do 
jn  inti- 
lendship 
lin  great 
|gn,  and 
I  have 
lailon 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  8l 

37.     rF.SPUCCWS  (AMERlCVSy-Rfcto  of  the  first  leaf :  '5^5" 


^ontiet  neii  gefitnben 

Strgion  fo  m\  ein  Melt     netiMit  loerbcnJI  buri^  ben  @rU 
flHidieu  funio,  toon  ^^ottigol,  ||  munbtbaadi  erfunben,  || 

Then  woodcut  similar  to  that  in  the  above  (No.  36),  but  evidently 
printed  from  a  different  block. 
Jnfint: 

U^  (atitt  ijl  biff  mijfiue  ittSutfi^  oejosen  u^  bent  rfem|| 
^(ar  bad  Hon  ^ari^  fam  int  ^^el|rn  monet  mitU  nad) 
(Irifliie  ge6ttrt.  |b  Ijunbert  bnb  funff  iar.  11 

*^*  4to,  sine  loco,  eight  leaves,  thirty-three  lines  in  a  full  page  ; 
signatures  Aii,  Aiii,  Aiiii.  Altogether  different  from  the 
above  Nos.  35  and  36. 

(Britiih  Museum.) 

3  8 .     yeHP  UCCIUS  {  AMER  reus)—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

%m  bet  neu  aefunbett 
9ieglott  ble  mvtZ:^ 

ben  e^riftenlidjen  tttttigHbott  ^ortigal,  ttunberbarlidj  rr- 
fnnben.  !l 


and  men  acquainted  with  Columbus's  voy- 
age live,  to  have  a  map  made  at  the  request 
of  your  Magnilicence.  It  will  be  extremely 
well  executed,  ana  copious  and  minute  in 
respect  to  all  the  newly  discovered  countries. 
There  is  no  such  map  here  save  one  in  the 
possession  of  the  said  Columbus,  nor  is 
there  any  man  who  can  make  one.  I  shall 
have  to  wait  some  days  for  the  same,  be- 
cause Palos,  where  it  is  to  be  made,  is  seven 
hundred  miles  from  here  ;  and  then  when 
it  it  finished  I  do  not  know  how  I  can  send 
it,  as  I  have  ordered  it  to  be  made  of  a 
large  size  that  it  may  be  handsomer.  I 
expect  your  Magnificence  will  be  obliged 
to  await  our  coming,  which  necessarily  can- 


not be  far  off,  seeing  that  we  shall  soon 
have  been  out  of  the  Republic  for  a  year. 
Concerning  the  Treatise  on  the  Voyage  of 
Columbus,  a  skillful  per.i^on  has  composed 
it  and  it  is  a  very  long  story.  I  copied  it 
and  have  the  copy  by  me,  but  it  is  so  large 
that  I  have  no  way  of  sending  it,  except- 
ing piece-meal.  I  here  send  your  Magnif- 
icence the  first  book,  which  I  have  trans- 
lated into  Italian  for  your  greater  conveni- 
ence. The  author  of  this  treatise  is  the 
embassador  of  these  Most  Serene  Sovereigns 
to  the  Sultan,  who  will  come  to  Venice  to 
present  it  to  our  Most  Serene  Prince,  who, 
I  think,  should  have  it  printed,  and  so  your 
Magnificence  will  have  a  perfect  copy  of  it." 


II 


! 


82 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


ItH'l 

m 


I  CO  C*        Then  a  representation  of  the  King  of  Portugal  holding  a  sceptre  in 
—^^^^^—  his  right  hand,  and  in  his  left  a  crowned  escutcheon. 


l^eno  of  the  first  leaf: 

gttttretttla  f  Ctrl"  Sir'- 

The  last  three  lines  on  the  veno  of  the  seventh  leaf  are  as  fol- 
lows : 

%Xi,^  (atetin  ift  bifg  miffiite  in  ^entfi^  ||  oe^ofjen  m.^ 
bem  hiim)^\^x  ba§  bon  $arl)^  fam  itn  me)|en  v^^-  \\  net 
9lai^  @$rijti  geburt.  XV.  ijunbert  bnb  funff  jar.  II 

*^  8vo,  sine  loco,  jcven  leaves  +  one  blank  ;  thirty-five  lines  in  a 
full  page. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

The  copy  in  the  British  Museum  contains  a  letter  ad- 
dressed to  Mr.  Thomas  Grenville  by  Mr.  Panizzi,  from 
which  we  extract  the  following: 

"  This  edition  is  described  by  Panzer,  Annalen  der  Alter  Deutcher 
Literal.,  Vol.  i,  page  271,  No.  561  ;  but  I  do  not  find  it  mentioned 
anywhere  else.  It  is  mentioned  by  A.  Humboldt  only,  in  the  fifth 
volume  of  his  Examen  Critique  (page  6),  where  he  quietly  (page  32) 
corrects  a  mistake  he  had  committed  in  the  preceding  volume  (pages 
168-9)  respecting  the  date  of  this  curious  document. 

"  Whilst  some  editions  in  Italian  and  Latin  of  Vespuccio's  letter 
say  that  he  sailed  on  the  10th,  and  others  on  the  13th  of  May,  1501, 
this  one  says  fourteenth  in  full — a  fact,  I  believe   unnoticed." 


Direct  references : 


r  Bibliotheca  Grenvi/tiana,  Part  11,  page  427. 

j    Heber  Catalogue  (Paris,  1836),  Part  11,  No.  884. 

I    HuMBOLiiT,  Examen  Crilijue,  Vol.  v,  page  6,  note. 

Brunet,  Vol.  V,  col.  1 1 56. 

Bibliotheca  Browniana,  No.  13. 

Livres  Curieux,  No.  112. 

Notei  on  Columbus,  K,  page  33. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  g-, 

3  9.     VESPUCCim  (AMERICUSy-Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

^t  lira  antardtmi 

per  regem  PortugalKe  ||  pritrcm  muenta.H 

othl';fiv:Tessdr'""=  °"^  -presenting  four  naked  savages,   the 
yerso  of  the  first  leaf : 

Recto  of  the  second  leaf: 

H  Mt  terra  fui  cartrine  Entarctico  )^er  reaem  Mor- 
tUBallie  pri- 1|  trem  inucuta.    itt.  miugmanni  mu 

/'f  rj«  of  the  second  leaf: 

xtvXw  p4riitri  l>i»  m\nm  fa- 

lo°.d  ■';;""  °'  ""  '""  '"f  •  ""i«"«  f'°".  .  papal  no,„,,  f„,. 

^  Jmptrffttm  argentine  m  ittafjiam  Jupfutt.  m. 

%*  Sm.  4to,  six  leaves. 
___  (r  -vate  Librar.,  New  York,  Providence,  and  Washington  city.) 


Portugal     Master  King.a'n  PhilS  to     p'hiiS  f'  %IT'%  '  ""r'  '''"«'"- 
James  Bruno  h..  friend.     Concerning  the     by  Matthias  Hupfutt-.To?   ''   '^'™'""8 


505- 


84 

I  C  O  C  •      Direct  rtftrencii : 


l1 


Bibliotheca  Americana, 

Panzer,  Annales   Typogr.,  Vol.  vi,  page  33. 
Bitliolheca  Grenvilliana,  page  766. 
Bihlhthtca  Heberiana,  Part  vi,  No.  3849. 
Bibliotheca  Browniana,  page  6,  No.  12. 
Ternaux,  No.  7. 
Raetzel  Catalogue,  No.  1 1 58. 
Crowninshield  Catalogue,  No.  1071. 
Notei  on  Columbui,  I,  page  31. 
Brunet,  Vol.  V,  col.  1 1 55. 

I  C06*    4.0.     yESPUCCIUS  [AMERICUS)— Redo  of  the  first  leaf : 

~"  ^m  ben  nfttae  3tt-i 

\vi\i  ttttb  (attbeit  fo  t^t%  ^ttrl^Uilien  erfunben  fijnt  bnrdj 
ben  fnnig  bott  ^ortttgaK.  || 

Then  the  same  woodcuts  as  in  No.  39,  and  on  the  verso  two  wood- 
cuts :  the  one  above  representing  two  men  looking  with  astonish- 
ment at  a  mermaid ;  the  other,  the  King  (probably)  greeting  Ves- 
pucci upon  his  return. 

Recto  of  the  second  leaf: 

H  SSott  ber  Slneben  toelt.ll 

fagt  nil  $eiU  Hit  guti^ 
(autretio  )ietti  be  meMcii^. 

^ifr/tf  of  the  last  leaf: 

H  ©etruitt  )u  ^traPttrg  in  bent  fnnff^e  II  dnnberften 
bnb  fedjji  ^ar.* 

Then  woodcut  of  the  King  receiving  Vespuccius. 

*^*  Sm.  4to,  eight  leaves,  in  a  demi-cursive  German  type  ;  signa- 
tures A  and  B  in  fours ;  thirty-two  lines  in  a  full  page.  No 
water-mark. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

♦  Anglici :  Cuncerning  the  new  islandsi  New  World.  Alberic  V'ejpotius  sends  his 
and  countries  which  have  lately  been  dis-  respects  to  Laurent  Peter  de  Medicis. 
covered  by  the  King  of  Portugal  in  the     Printed  at  Strasburg  in  the  year  1506. 


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icana. 


85 


Dirict  rtfirtncct ;  f  Ternaux,  No.  S. 

j   Brunkt,  Vol.  V,  col.  1155 
I    RouuN,  in   Humboldt's  Examtn  Critiau.   Vol    v    o».  , 
KI0.S  Catalogue,  page  3,0,  No.  4,r.   ^    '  '  P"*"'  7,  note. 

41.  ^^JPvccws(AMERicu^^^^y on  den  newen  Infulen 
und  Landen  so  yttz  kurtzlichen  erfundenn  seynd  du ih 
den  kunigk  von   Pordgal,  curious  ^oodcu^n  LtUU^ 
n..  BXCBS.VB.V  K.KB  Tk.cx  consists  of  only  si    le^' 
^Jeypfuk  ,urcH   Baccalarium  Mar.num   Un^jC,,^ 

(BMmkeca  Htheriana*.) 

^'"""/'^""'•■fPartv.,  No.  3846. 
•j      Rich,  No.  1. 

I       Navarrete,  CoUccion,  Vol.  „,,  pag^  ,g. 

Humboldt,  £*a„„Cr/V/        Vol    ,vn!'      ^ 

ilottiffimcDiftodatailomnifi  rrpercumor^.  noufii 

Then  a  coat  of  arms   .i.,rm„        j  ,  ♦»«»"*mu.  || 

arms,  surmounted  by  a  cardinal's  hat. 
y^olopbon : 


'  Brunet,  "  Avff  la  , 


1506. 


'f'  </'  Imprimcur,"  Vol. 


S  cpl.  iij6. 


i 


I 


86  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1 506.  (ftrlftl.  m.  m,  II  bi.  mt  im  Ittaii :  l^rgitantf  lLeo= 
—  nar-  II  Ho  Hobrtrano  Ucnctia- 1|  rum  ^^rincipr.  11=*= 


*^*  Folio,    thirteen    unnumbered    leaves,    then    numbered    leaves 
from  4  to  449.     Many  woodcuts. 

(Private  Library,  New  York  and  ProviJence.) 

Many  of  the  historians  of  the  fifteenth  century  were 
mere  chroniclers,  who  kept  a  historical  register  of 
events  in  the  order  of  time,  beginning  a  mundi  incunabu- 
lis,  and  ending  with  the  year  when  the  manuscript  was 
intrusted  to  the  printer.  Every  two  or  three  years,  ad- 
ditions were  made  and  new  editions  published  under  the 
name  of  the  author  who  had  given  celebrity  to  the  work, 
even  after  he  was  dead  and  buried  within  the  walls  of  the 
monastery,  which  had  often  been  his  only  sphere  of  action 
and  personal  influence. 

The  present  chronicle  is  one  of  that  character.  Its 
author,  James  Philip  Foresti  or  Bergomas,  was  born 
either  at  Soldio  (Niceron^),  or  at  Bergamo  {Bay/e";  and 
himself:  Bergamum  ciuitas  nostra:  unde  mihi  origo  est), 
hence  his  name,  in  142J  (E/ssius^),  or  in  1434  (AVivro/;); 
and  died  in  1518  {Bayle,  Elssius  viwd  Meusel*),  or  in  15:10 
{Niceron  or  Donato  Calvi\  whom  Niceron  seems  to  have 
copied  in  his  notice  of  Foresti).  He  was  of  a  noble 
familv,  and  abandoned  the  world  to  become  a  monk  of 
the  Augustine  order. 

"  Tritheme  a  parle  de  lui  comme  d'un  tres  celebre 
Historiographe."     {Sallcngr/'.) 


*  Anglice  !  The  latest  reriectii)ns  ot  all 
history,  lately  publisht'd  by  the  most  rever- 
end Father  James  Philip  uf  Bergamo,  ot 
the  order  ot"  the  Hermits,  called  the  Sup- 
plement's Supplement  to  the  Chronicles, 
from  the  creation  of  the  world  to  the  year 
ot  our  Redemption,  I  506,  with  Grace  and 
Privilege. 

Carefully  revised  and  corrected.  Ven- 
ice, printed  at  the  expense,  and  by  the  care 
of  Georges  de  Ruscon,  A.  D.  1506,  May 
4th,  under  the  reign  of  Leonard  de  Love- 
dino,  Prince  of  Venice. 


'  MeiHoires  four  tervir  a  fhiitoire  dts 
hommti  illuslres.  Vol.  xvii,  page  223. 

'  Dictii-nnaire,  Vol.  i,  page  5  34. 

'  Emomiasticon  Auguninian,  in  Cle- 
ment's Bihliol)ii(jUt  Curieuse,  Vol.  in, 
pages  1 74-18 1. 

*  Bihliotheca  UiUorica,  Vol.  i,  Part  1, 
page  96. 

'  &:ena  Lett,  dt  gli  Scritt,  Bergam.  (Ber- 
gamo, 1664,  4to),  Parti,  page  196,  apud 
Clement. 

'  Mt moires  de  Littirature,  Vol.  I,  pages 
166-171. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


87 


The  first  edition  of  the  Supplementum  chronicarum  is 
of  Venice,  folio,  14S3  ;  which,  with  additions,  was  fre- 
quently reprinted  as  late  as  1547,  and  in  Italian  to  the 
year  1581.  It  is  entitled  to  a  place  in  the  Bibliotheca 
Americana  on  account  of  the  chapter  Dc  qiiatiior  per- 
maximis  insuiis  in  india  extra  orbem  niiper  invent is\  which, 
like  the  passages  in  the  £«/iLWt?j  of  Sabellicus  and  the 
Commentary  of  Maffei  of  Volterra,  his  most  intimate 
friend,  acquires  a  peculiar  interest  from  the  fact  that  it 
preceded  the  publication  of  Peter  Martyr's  Decades. 
Maittnire*  and  Panzer'^  give  editions  of  1483,  1484,  and 
"  non  castratum,"  1485  ;  Clement  cites  one  of  14H6,  and 
Denis'^  another  of  1492  (before  us)  to  which  Du  Frcs 
nov  and  Niceron  erroneously  ascribe  the  date  of  149J. 

The  Kloss"  and  Butsch  Catalogues  add  to  the  list : 

"Supplementum  supplementi  chronicarum  ab  exordio 
mundi  usque  in  anno  1502,  libri  xvi,  cum  multis  figg. 
ligno  incisis. 

"  Venetiis  Albert,  de  Lissona,  1503,  folio" 

— which  is  the  first  edition  containing  the  chapter  relat- 
ing to  Columbus  and  his  voyages. 

There  is  a  Nuremberg  reprint  of  1506. 


1506. 


Dirrct  rtftrencts : 


Bib/.  Hist.  Struniio-BuiUr.,  Vol.  i,  page  123, 
Panzer,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  viii,  page  3Si. 
Meisel,  Bibliotheca  Hiitorica,  Vol.  1,  page  yy. 
Bibliotheca  Grenvilliana,  I'trt  n,  Append.,  page  450. 
Bib'ioth.  Broivniana,  No.  14, 


'  In  the  present  copy  it  is  on  the  verso 
of  leaf  440. 

"  Annales  Typij;r,,  Vol.  I  (that  which 
bears  the  date  of  1733,  .ind  constitutes 
Parts  I  ami  11  of  Vol.  iv  of  that  erudite 
but  chaotic  compilation),  pages  441,  458, 

¥'>%i'9<  5 '9.  548. 

•  Annales,  Vol.  1,  p.  247,  Vol.    iii,  pp. 

232,    280,    288,    320,    482,    Vol.    VIII,  pp. 

364,  382. 


'"  Supplement,  page  302. 

"  London,  1835,  page  49,  No.  668.  To 
all  of  which  we  add:  Gesner,  BibJitheca, 
page  17;  Bibliotheca  Z>5«.,  Vol.  vii,  page 
Io8j  Vossius,  (it  Histur.  I.at.,  page  662; 
Fabricius,  Bibl.  I.at.  Me,!.,  B.  ix,  p.  38  ; 
Engel,B/W.  Select.,  Part  i,  page  15;  Hain, 
Repertor.,  Nos.  1 805,  sy.  ,•  Catal.  Bihliotk. 
Bunav.,  Vol.  11,  page  173;  Brunet,  Vol. 
1,  col.  787;  Gkaesse,  Vol.  I,  page  341. 


88 


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Bibliotheca  Americana. 

Commentariorum  urban- 


^.3.    MAFFEI  OF  yOLTERRA 

■  orum  Libri  xxxviii. 

"  Romae,  J.  Beficken  [?],  1506,  folio." 

(BiograpAie  UniverielU  and  Ebirt'.) 

Raphael  MafFei,  MafFeus  Volaterranus,  )r  Rafaello 
Volterrano,  born  at  Volterra  in  145 1,  died,  1521 
{Meusef,  BlounO)  or  1522  {Tiraboschi*)^  at  Rome. 

"  Raphael  de  ydterre  avait  deja  dedie  a  ce  grand  pontife  [Julius  II], 
ses  Commcntaires  Urbains,  sorte  d'encyclopedie  contemporaine  dont  la 
geographic  forme  I'element  principal  [the  first  twelve  books],  et  oii 
les  recentes  decouvertes  dcs  Espagnols  et  des  Portugais  sont  appreciees 
au  poiiu  de  vue  du  christianisme  qui  Ics  avait  inspirees.  Apres  avoir 
glorifie  !c  passage  aux  Indes  par  le  cap  de  Bonne  Fsperance,  et  les 
navigations  vers  les  iles  de  I'occident,  qui  n'avaieni  j'oint  encore  recu 
le  noni  immerite  d'Americ  Vespuce,  I'auteur  depeint  les  peuples  nou- 


veaux,  dont  les  moeurs  etranges  ne  le  surprennent  pas  moins  que  leurs 
richesses.     Qui  le  croirait,  s'ecrie-t-il,   \\-r   "-'  — - — -■•■   '-  -----    -■ 

apotres,    eux    qui    ne    connurent   pourtant 
Romains,  ni  les  armes  ni  meme  le  nom." 

•  (Thomassy*.) 


ont  entendu  la  voix 
des   Macedoniens   ou 


des 
des 


The  passage  referred  to  by  Mr.  Thomassy  in  his  in- 
teresting pamphlet  is  in  the  last  section  of  Book  xii, 
^'■Loca  nuper  reperta"  and  begins  in  these  words:  "Huius 
itaque  laudis  aemuli  nautae  Hispani,  qui  sub  Ferdinandi 
regis  auspicijs  agunt,  duce  Christophoro  Columbo,  anno 
Mccccxci,  a  Gadibus  soluentes." 

The  above  may  not  be  the  exact  title  of  the  edition 
of  1 506,  as  the  latter  seems  to  be  a  collection  of  all  of 
Maffei's  works.  ^i 


Direct  rtferences  : 


Dictionary,  No.  1 3007. 

Biblioth.  Hiuor.,  Vol.  i,  Part  i,  page  281. 

Censura  ctUb.  auct.,  page  369. 

Storia  delta  Let.  Ital.  Vol.  vil,  page  n. 

Les  Papes  Grographes,  page  22 

Vossius,  De  Hiuor.  Latin.,  Lib.  Ill,  cap.  sil,  page  672. 

Baillet,  jfugements.  Vol.  II,  page  135. 

Frehervs,  T/ieatrum,  Part  iv,  page  1438. 

Fabricii's,  Bihliogr.  Antif.,  page  609;  and   Bitl.  Latin.  Med., 

Vol.  VI,  page  142. 
Govio,  Degti  huomi  famos.,  (1558),  page  233. 
Magiri's,  Efonymologium  Criticum,  page  800. 
Saxius,   Onomasticon,  Part  m,  page  i. 


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44.     VESFVCCWS  ^  HTLACOMTLU^Rec,  rf  the  first  Uaf :        ,  507. 

COSMOGRAPHl    !•     INTRODVC- '^^^^^^ 
TIO,  &c.,  cum  IV  Amend  Vefpucij  navie. 

Rtcto  of  Ait:  r         J  & 

"  Diva  Maximiliano  C^f^r,  »,  . ^^jf,  ^j^^^.^^^  .^^^^_  ^ 
miliuj  Foelidta-  ',  um  0ptat.  |j" 

*'*  Con/ wJ'h'.t  fTi  "^^-  ""  '"  '  P"-«  ""Try  of 

D  Avezac  informs  us  that  in  the  Ma«r,"^  ^  i^S^'ts.  M. 
tures  read:  A  and  B  in  «>^!  C^Anr  °P-.'  '^^  "8"'*- 
remaining  leaves. -J^hT'  \""^.  P  "'A*'-^  '  it  lacks  the 
Ririgm  nn's  ten  ines  of  ve^'  \  "'^'P'^''  ^^^ether  with 
on  tie  recto^f-lTinlhVrc^V'V;::-".^^^^^^ 

it  o^rNt!',r  ^^^^'  "^^""-^  '^""  B-e;;rare;i;t;; 


45.     IDEM  OPVS-Recti  ,/  the  first  Uaf  : 

COSMOGRAPHIAE     INTRODVC 
^i^ll^y^    QVIBVSDAM  II  GEOME- 
TRIAE||AC||ASTRONO,|MlAE  PRIN 

R!fi!.^"^^    ^"^^^^    ^^^^    NECESSA- 

KlJb  II  Infuper    qiiatuor    Americi    Ve- || 

ipucij  nauigationes.  Vniuerfalis  Cbofmo- 
graphis  [./.]  defcriptio  |!  tarn  in  folido 
cpplano/eis  etiam  {J  inferris  qu^  Ptholomeo|| 

CHON  0  Cum  deus  aftra  regat/  &  te™ 
chmata  C^far  ||  Nee  tellus  nee  eis  fydera 
maius  habent.||  ^ 


12 


go  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  COT.         First  four  lines  on  the  verso  of  the  title  : 

==  DIVO  MAXIMILIANO  CAESARI  SEM-|1PER  AVGVSTO' 
GYNNASIVM  [j/V]  V0S||^GENSE  NON  RVDIBVS  IN  DO  1| 
CTISVE  ARTIVM  HVMANI  |1* 

In  fine,  encircling  a  printer'' s  mark,  containing  the  initials  S.  D.  || 
G.  L.  II  N.  L.  II  M.  I.  {the  latter  interlaced): 

Vrbs  Deodate  tuo  clarefcens  nomine 
praefulllQua  Vogeft  montis  funt  iuga  pref- 
iit  opus  II  Preflit/  &  ipfa  eade  Chrifto  mo- 
nimeta  fauete  ||  Tempore  venturo  caetera 
multa  premet.  |1  Finitu.  vij.  kl'.  Maij  ||  An- 
no fupra  fefqui  Millefium.  vij.  ||-t* 

%*  4to ;  signature  A  in  six,  B  in  four,  a  in  eight  (+two  for  map- 
pemund,  so  called ),  b,  c  and  d  also  in  eights,  e  in  four,  f  in 
six ;  title  one  leaf;  then  from  A  ij  to  the  double  leaf  or  map, 
so  called,  and  which  we  count  as  one,  ten  unnumbered  leaves, 
making,  with  the  title-page,  eleven ;  then  from  a  to  f  iiij, 
forty  leaves,  followed  by  two  more  without  signatures,  with 
the  colophon  on  the  recto  of  the  last,  the  verso  being  blank. 
Text  in  Roman  characters;  twenty-seven  lines  in  a  full  page; 
description  of  the  map  in  twelve  lines  in  Roman  type. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York,  Owl's  Head  and  Providence.) 


*  Anglice :  Introduction  to  Cosmog- 
raphy, together  with  some  principles  of 
Geometry  and  Astronomy  necessary  to  the 
purpose.  Also  four  navigations  of  Ameri- 
cus  Vespucius.  A  description  of  universal 
Cosmography,  both  stereometrical  and 
planometrical,  together  with  what  was 
unknown  to  Ptolemy,  and  has  been  recently 
discovered.  Distich.  Neither  the  earth 
nor  the  stars  possess  anything  greater  than 
God  and  Cxsar,  as  God  rules  the  stars  and 
Caesar  the  climes  of  the  earth. 


t  Sic  pro  :  "  Pr.Tsul  Deodate !  urbs  cla- 
rescens  tuo  nomine  qua  sunt  iuga  montis 
Vogesi,  pressit  [hoc]  opus;  et  ipsa  eadem 
Christo  fjvente  monimentajj  tempore  ven- 
ture premet  catera  multa." 


*  Thrsc  '•  ,\fonim4nta"  ^LTC  another  work  by  Hy- 
Ucomylus,  as  appears  from  the  following  passage 
in  the  dedication  of  the  Imtructh  mdnuduitiontm 
friittint  (rn/r<i,  p.  ii8,  mte)  to  Anthony  of  Lor- 
raine: '*lllustris  genitor  tuus  [Rcn^  11.  who  died 
in  1508I  ,  ,  .  laboris  nostri  monimenta  sibi  oblata 
a  nobis  susccperct." 


t 


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Bibliotheca  Americana.  g, 

46.     yESPVccWS  ^  HTL^COMTLVS-Pecto  of  the  first  leaf- 

COSMOGRAPHIAE  II  INTRODVr 
TIOII  CVM  OyiBVSll  DAM  gSe^,; 

CIPIIS  ADIIEAM  REM  NECESSARIISII 
Infuper  quattuor  Americi  (|  Vefpucii  naui- 
gat,ones.  ||  Vniuerfalis   CoftnographL" X 

mfertis  ||  qus  Ptholom^o  ignota  a  nu  11 
pens  reperta  funt.  ||  DISTHYCON||  Cum 
deus  afc,  regat.  &  terr.  climata  C.far  || 
Nee  tellus/  nee  e.s  fydera  raaius  habent.  || 

First  four  lines  of  the  verso  of  the  title  ■ 

GV^^C?  GV^MS^7v?>^fo"E"N^sf  5J.?^        ^-" 
BVSIIINDOCTISVE  ARTIVM  HvJ^  ^^^'" 

/«/w  (encircling  the  printer's  mark): 

Vrbs  Deodate  tuo  clarefcens  nomine 
pr^fulllQua  Vogefi  mentis  funt  iugaTref- 
I.  opus  II  Preffit,  &  ipfa  eade  ChriL'^o. 
nimeta  fauete  ||  Tempore  venturo  estera 
multa  premet.  ||  Finitu.  iiij.  kl'.  Septerbris 
Anno  fupra  fes  ||  quimillefimu.  vii^ 


♦  * 


4to;  signatures  A  and  B  in  sixe^  P  in  /•  /  , 
pemund)  D  in  four  with  v/Zc'!  V  u  /""''  (+'^°  f°r  map- 
-^^/.  bind  c  in  Z^;;;  d  in  ."//f  Y.  .^'«"'^'  ^  (^g^in)  fn 
unnumbered  leaves  man  tbf'  ,  '^  ^-  '"  ■^'"''■^'  ^^-'wo 
which  is  in  fif  en'lines^'  The'Sn"''""  °"  '^'  ^^'^  °f 
Jerusalem  is  on  the  rJ^^  '  of  A  ?!  ?„  r^'""  '°  ''^^  ^'"^  ^^ 
/«^aW  ^flyv;e^,      r„    11    °^  ^ "  '"  ^-^^  part  containing:  f^es- 

isonthe.i.r;fb'^Htr;t'^r'^'"°"  ''^'^  ^^'^--- 
(Private  Librar,  New  York  and  Providence.) 


1507. 


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92  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

ICIO7.  47*     l^ESPUCCIUS&  HrLACOMYLUS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf : 


COSMOGRAPHIAE  INTRODV- 

CTIO/  CVM  QVIBVS 

DAM  GEOME 

TRIAE 

AC 

ASTRONO 

MIAE   PRINCIPIIS  AD 

EAM    REM    NECESSARIIS. 

Infuper  quatuor  Americi  Ve- 
fpucij   nauigationes. 


fii 


Vniverfalis   Cofmographi^   defcriptio 

tarn  in  folido  (J  piano/  eis  etiam 

infertis  qu^   Ptholom^o 

ignota  a  nuperis 

reperta  funt. 


DISTICHON. 

Cum  deus  aftra  regat/  &  terrae  climata  Caefar 
Nee  tellus  nee  eis  fydera  maius  habent. 


m. 


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Bibliotheca  Americana. 

yeno  of  the  tit/e-page  ,  -^« 

1507. 

MAXIMTLIANO  CAESARI  AVGVSTO  """^ 

PHILESIVS  VOGESIGENA. 

Cum  tua  fit  vaftum  Maieftas  facra  per  orbem 

Caefar  in  extremis  Maximiliane  plagis 
qua  fol  Eois  rutilum  caput  extulit  vndis/ 
Atcp  freta  Herculeo  nomine  nota  petit- 
quacj  dies  medius  flagranti  fydere  feruet/ 
Congelat  &  Septem  terga  marina  Trio: 
Aciubeas  regu  magnorum  maxime  princeps 

Mitia  ad  arbitrium  iura  fubire  tuum 
Hinc  tibi  deuota  generale  hoc  mente  dicauit 
qui  mira  prasfens  arte  parauit  opus. 

o  TeA.o3. 
First  four  lines  of  the  recto  ofAij : 

DIVO  MAXIMILIANO  CAESARI  AV 

GVSTO  MARTINVS  ILACO 

MILVS  FOELICITA 

TEM  OPTAT. 

Colophon  precisely  like  No,  46. 

V  4/0;  signatures  exactly  as  in  No    ^fi      tk  1 

the  back  of  the  mappemund  in  fif//   r      ^  ."Planation  on 

theversoof  Aiij.reaTrH"«HL  M  "  in? '^'r  '^"^  ''"=  °" 
as  in  No.  45.  herhae  mate,  instead  of  geometriae, 

(Privite  Library,  New  York.) 


94  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

IffO?.         But  for  this  little  work   the  Western    Hemisphere 
_______  might  have  been  called  "The  Land  of  the  Holy  Cross," 

or  "Atlantis,"  or  "Hesperides,"  or  "Iberica,"or  "Co- 
lumbia," or  "New  India,"  or  "The  Indies,"  as  it  is 
designated  officially  in  Spain  to  this  day.  The  idea  of 
calling  the  newly  discovered  world  America  originated 
with  the  compiler  of  the  work  before  us,  one  Martin 
Waltzmiiller  or  Waldsce-miiller,  a  native  of  Freiburg, 
who  held  a  professorship  in  the  gymnasium  of  St.  Die. 
in  Lorraine  (and  not  in  Lower  Hungary,  as  N'-^arrete 
supposed').  Following  the  custom  of  the  scholars  of 
those  days,  he  grecized  his  name  into  Hylacomylus, 
under  which  he  is  now  generally  known.  The  sugges- 
tion to  which  we  owe  our  national  name,  and  which 
seems  to  be  an  inexhaustible  source  of  abuse  and  asper- 
sions, bespattering  the  reputation  of  a  man  justly  and 
universally  respected  to  the  last  day  of  his  lite,  will  be 
found  in  No.  45,  on  the  verso  of  the  fifteenth  leaf 
(which  is  the  first  after  a-iiij  and  the  map),  and  is  as 
follows  : 

Nuc  V^o  &  h^  partes  funt  latius  luftratae/ 
&  alia  II  quarta  pars  per  Amcricu  Vefputiu 
(vt  in  fequcnti  ||  bus  audietur)  inuenta  eft/ 
qua  noil  video  cur  quis  ||  iure  vctet  ab 
Americo  inuentore  fagacis  ingenij  vi  ||  ro 
Amerigen  quali  Americi  terra/  fiue  Amer- 
icam  II  dicenda :  cu  &  Europa  &  Alia  a 
mulieribus  fua  for  ||  tita  fint  nomina.* 

It  is  followed  by  the  word  "America,"  in  the  margin. 

*  y'n. :  "  But  now  that  those  parts  have  Americus,  a  man  of  sagacious  mind,  since 

been  more  extensively  examined  and  an-  both   Europe  and  Asia  took  tlieir   names 

other  fourth  part   has  been  discovered  by  from  women." 

Americus  (as  will  be  seen  in  the  sequel),         '  "Ex  oppido  divi  Dtodati,  que  corre- 

I  do  not  see  why  we  should  rightly  refuse  spondc  hoy  a  Tata  6  Dolis,  ciudad  situada 

to  name  it  America,  namely,  the  land  of  en    la  Hungria  inferior" — Cotcccion,  Vol. 

Americus  or  America,  after  its  discoverer,  in,  p.  183. 


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95 


rgin. 


The  popularity  of  Hylacomylus*  Cosmo^raphia  was  such  I  507* 
in  Central  fc',urc)pe  that  his  proposition  was  immediately  »--— 1.1.. 
acted  upon.  As  a  consequence,  we  find  in  Gaultier 
Ludd's  Speculum  Orbis  (No.  49),  written  in  the  same 
year,  the  credit  of  having  discovered  the  Western  Hem- 
isphere ascribed  solely  to  Vespuccius,  while  an  anony- 
mous Globus  mundi,  published  by  the  same  printer  in 
1509  (No.  61),  boldly  calls  the  new  world  /Imerica, 
which  figures  under  this  name  for  the  first  time  in  maps^ 
eight  or  ten  years  after  Vespuccius  had  been  in  his  then 
honored  grave.  Well  may  we  say  with  Hum.boldt'  that : 
"c'est  un  homme  obscur,  qui  allait  manger  du  raisin  en 
Lorraine,  qui  a  invente  le  nom  d'Ameriquc,  qu'Appien 
[the  designer  of  the  map  inserted  in  Camers'  Solhius]^ 
Vadianus  et  Camers  ont  repandu  depuis  par  Strasbourg, 
Fribourg  et  Vienne." 

Although  this  important  fact  is  now  generally  known 
through  the  praiseworthy  efforts  of  Humboldt^,  who 
took  it  at  heart  to  vindicate  the  calumniated  Florentine, 
Foscarini'  and  Bandini*^'  were  the  authors  who  first  called 
the  attention  of  critics  to  that  interesting  passage  in  the 
Cosmographia.  It  is  also  in  the  volume  before  us  that 
the  reader  will  find  the  first  collection  of  Vespuccius* 
voyages,  which  we  quote  in  No.  22,  under  the  name  of 
Hylacomylus. 

"  Quoiqu'il  en  soit,  I'auteur  de  cette  Cosmographie  a  fait  plus  que 
de  donncr  a  I'Ainerique  le  nom  qu'elle  porte  aujourd'hui,  car  on  voir, 
par  differents  endroits  dc  son  ouvrage,  que  deja  au  commencement  de 
1 507  il  avait  prepare  des  mappemondcs  comprenant  ce  qu'on  con- 
naissait  alors  de  rAmerique.  « Totius  orbis  typu  tarn  in  solido 
piano  ....  p-dTaq'cr'imus'  {Cosmogrup/.'ia-,  T  edit,  feuillct  A  ij  rec- 
to) ...  Si  te  modi  umonuerimus  prius,  nos  in  depingendis  tabulis 
typi  generalis  no  omnimodo  sequatos  esse  Ptholomcu,  prx-sertim  circa 
novas  terras  vbi  in  cartis  marinis  aliter  animadvertimus  u  cquatore 
costitui  q'  Ptholomeus  fecerit  {Hid,  feuillet  b.  recto).     L'auteur  doni 


m 
onne 


I  corre- 
lituada 
1,  Vol. 


'  Inserted  in  two  editions  of  Solinus, 
Vienna  and  Cologne,  fol.  1510.    See  infra. 

*  Bulletin  de  la  Sociclc  de  Geographies 
for  December,  1835,  p.  411. 


•  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  iv,  p.  33  j    Cos- 
mos, Vol.  II,  p.  676,  note. 

Del.  Leiterat.  fenexiana,  p.  432,  note. 
'  yita,  Introduction,  p.  lvi. 


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I  con  *  de  plus  grands  details  encore  dans  I'inscription  placee  au  recto  de  la 
planche  qu'on  appele  mappemonde  et  qui  ne  contenant  absolument 
rien  do  geographique,  n'a  ricn  de  commun  avec  les  mappemondes  geo- 
graphiques  que  I'auteur  avait  preparces,  ct  dont  ii  parle.  En  effet  au 
V  ^  de  cette  'mappemonde'  qu'on  volt  dans  les  deux  editions,  verso 
qui  pour  le  dire  en  passant  contient  12  iignes  dans  I'edition  '  vii  Kal. 
Maij'  [the  above]  et  15  Iignes  dans  la  reimpression  '  iiij  Kl.  Septe- 
bris  [No.  46]  bien  que  les  inscriptions  soient  les  mcmes  dans  les  deux 
editions,  (nous  indiquons  cette  difference  qui  pourra  servir  a  recon- 
naitre  si  I'on  n'a  pas  interpole  la  '  mappemonde'  d'une  edition  dans 
I'edition  a  laquelle  elle  n'appartient  pas)  i'auteur  explique  comment 
dans  la  veritable  mappemonde  qu'il  avait  preparee,  il  avait  distingue 
par  des  signcs  speciaux  les  quatre  parties  dc  la  terre,  savoir  :  L'Europe 
par  des  aigles  romaines,  I'Afrique  ct  une  partic  de  I'Asie  par  des  crois- 
sants .  .  .  .  '  Deniq  in  quartam  terrc  parte  per  inclytos  Caitilie  et 
■  Lusitanix  reges  repertam  eorundeni  ipsorum  insignia  posuinius.'  On 
voit  done  que  c'est  avant  I'edition  de  Ptolcmee,  publiee  avec  le  supple- 
ment Mdiii  Beneventuni  \_infrii\  tjiic  i'auteur  de  cette  Cosmographia 
avait  prepare  une  mappemonde  contenant  ce  qu'on  connaissait  alors  de 
I'Amerique.  Cette  mappemonde  a-t-elle  paru  scparement  en  1507 
ou  bien,  I'auteur  ne  I'a-t-il  publiee  qu'apres  ?  c'est  la,  une  question 
que  des  recherches  ulterieures  dirigees  specialcment  vers  ce  point 
pourront  peut-etre  eclaircir. 


"C'est dans  cette  edition  que  les  quatre  navigations  d'Americ  Ves- 
puce  ont  paru  pour  la  premier'*  fois  [together]  en  latin.  Ceux  qui  se 
sont  occupes  de  I'histoirc  de  la  geographic  savent,  que  la  relation 
du  troisieme  voyage  de  Vespuce  fait  en  i  501,  qui  se  trouve  a  la  suite 
de  cette  Cosmographie  offre  une  redaction  totnl'-'nent  differ ente  de  celle 
que  Vespuce  a  donnee  dans  la  lettrc  a  Laurent  de  Medicis,  publiee 
sous  Ic  titre  de  Mtindus  Novus  de  Ora  Antarticti' ,  &c.  Celle  qu'on 
voit  dans  la  Cosmographia  est  adressee  au  due  de  Lorraine  (qu'on 
appelait  le  roi  de  Sicile)  et  clle  offrc  une  tres  grande  analogic  avec 
celle  qui  a  ete  publiee  comnie  etant  adressee  a  Soderini.  On  sait  du 
restc,  que  dans  difFerentes  editions  de  ccs  lettres  on  trouve  des  dates 
differentes " 

(LlBRl'.) 

We  cite  four  copies  of  this  work :  two  dated  of  the 
calends  of  May  (April  25th),  1507,  and  two  of  the  calends 
of  September  (August  29th)  of  the  same  year.  All  four 
differ  in  their  typographical  arrangements,  but  not  in 
the  text,  either  of  the  Cosmographiae  Introductio,  which 


'  It  is  the^rx  duplicala,  see  lufra,  p.  63. 


Catalogue  uf  1861  (?).  p.  15. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


96' 


lof  the 

iilcnds 

.11  four 

Inot  in 

which 


forms  the  first  part  of  the  work,  or  of  the  relation  of  I  ^O'J* 
the  four  voyages  of  Vespuccius,  which  constitutes  the . 
second  part.  The  variations  are  chie^.y  in  the  text  of 
the  dedications,  and  in  the  omission  in  Nos.  45  and  46 
of  Ringmann's  ten  lines  of  verse,  which  in  these  are 
replaced  by  a  short  text  in  prose  and  four  lines  in  verse, 
totally  different. 

No.  44  we  have  never  seen,  but  Nos.  45,  46  and  47, 
we  describe  de  visu. 

It  is  extremely  difficult  to  give  with  certainty  the 
chronology  of  these  four  issues ;  but  thanks  to  the 
corrections  sent  us  by  M.  D'Avezac,  we  are  enabled  to 
set  forth  a  very  plausible  arrangement. 

No.  44  must  be  considered  the  first  edition.  The 
reader  will  notice  that  in  this,  the  dedication  to  the 
Emperor  is  in  the  name  of  "  Martinvs  Ilacomilvs," 
while  in  No.  45,  it  is  inscribed  by  the  "  Gymnasivm 
VosAGENSE."  Now  in  the  Margarita  of  Strasburg, 
1 5 13'',  there  is  a  letter  addressed  to  Ringmann  or  Phi- 
lesius,  in  which  Hylacomylus  complains  bitterly  of  cer- 
tain parties  who  profited  of  his  absence  to  arrogate  to 
themselves  the  merit  of  having  composed  the  Cosmo- 
graphia.  This  charge  implies  the  existence  of  a  previous 
edition  by  Hylacomylus ;  and  the  distich  which  con- 
cludes the  verses  addressed  by  Ringmaim  to  the  Em- 
peror'", may  be  interpreted  as  indicating  that  No.  44  is 
the  first  edition  ;  which,  as  we  have  already  stated, 
bears  the  name  of  Hylacomylus. 


•  "Ce  passage  se  lit  dans  la  Margarlia 
fhitoiofhica  edition  de  Strasbourg,  1 5 1  3, 
intcrcalle  cntre  le  6°  et  le  7'  livre  (la 
pagination  nianque).  II  ne  se  trouve  pas 
dans  I'edition  de  Bale  de  la  meme  annee  ni 
dans  aucur.e  des  nonibreuses  editions  subsc- 
quentes  que  j'ai  pu  examiner  dans  les  dit- 
ftrcntes  bibliothcques  d'AUi-magne.  'Cum 
his  diebus  Bachanalihus  solatii  causa,  qui 
mihi  mos  est,  in  Germanium  venissem  e 
Gallia,  seu   putius  ex   Vogesi  oppido  (cui 


nomen  Sancto  Deodato)  ubi,  ut  nosti,  meo 
putissimum  ductu  et  labure  (licet  plerique 
alii  falso  sibi  passim  ascribant)  Cosmo- 
graphiam  non  sine  gloria  et  laude  per  orbem 
disseminatam  nuper  (c'etait  en  1507)  com- 
pusuimus,  depinximus  et  impressimus  .  .  ." 
HuMBOLUT,  Examen  Critijue,  Vol.  iv,  p. 
I  I  3,  note. 

'"  '•  Hinc  liii  devota  generale  Aoc  mente 
Jica-vit 
^i  mira  prttstnt  arte  faravit  ofui." 


12  bis. 


'i^ 


<•* 


■•^If  .III 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


IC07.        The  edition   published   in   his  absence   is  evidently 
.  No.  45,  as  it  is  in  this  that  we  first  find  the  substitution 

complained  of  by  Hylacomylus.  No.  46  is  a  reprint  of 
45,  but  with  a  different  arrangement,  and  dated  Sep- 
tember instead  of  May  in  the  colophon.  No.  47  is  un- 
questionably a  copy  composed  of  two  different  editions, 
viz. :  No.  44  for  the  Cosmographia,  and  No.  46  for 
Vespuccius*  Voyages.  The  signatures  of  the  first  part 
agree  perfectly  with  the  Mazarine- Eyries  copy ;  and 
not  only  the  signatures  of  the  second  part  tally  with 
No.  46,  but  the  blur  on  biij  is  found  in  both.  The 
colophons  in  Nos.  46  and  47  are  also  identical,  as  re- 
gards the  date  and  typography. 

There  may  be  in  existence  copies  formed  with  parts 
taken  from  Nos,  44,  45  and  46,  and  differing  still  more 
from  No.  47". 

Concerning  Hylacomylus,  all  we  can  add  is  that  ''Mar- 
tinus  Waltze-miiller  de  Friburgo  Constantiensis  dyaxesis,  a 
ete  inscrit  comme  etudiant  sous  le  rectorat  de  Conrad 
Knoll  de  Griiningen,  le  7  decembre  1490,  .  .  .  et  qu'il 
avait  etabli  peu  avant  1507  {nuper)  une  librairie  [libra- 


"  The  Coim'jgrafhiae  Iniroduclio  justly 
ranks  among  the  rarest  bimks  pertaining 
to  an  American  library,  but  it  is  not  as 
scarce  as  a  good  many  works  of°  equal  im- 
portance, such,  t'jr  instance,  as  the  Epistles 
of"  Columbus  and  Vespuccius.  We  pos- 
sess in  this  country,  three  copies  of'  the 
second  May  edition  (No.  45),  three  of  the 
first  September  (No.  46),  and  what  might 
be  termed  an  amalgamated  copy  (No.  47). 
In  Paris,  we  know  only  ot"  the  incomplete 
first  May  in  the  Maiarine  Library.  The 
British  Museum  possesses  in  the  Grenville 
collecti  >n  either  a  May  or  a  September. 
The  copy  described  by  Humboldt,*  and 
which  seems  to  be  the  identical  one  still 
preserved  in  the  Royal  Library  at  Berlin,f 
is  the  second  May.  The  edition  sold  in 
1861,  by  Brockhaus,  for  Thlr.  50,;};  was 
the  first  September.  That  advertised  a 
few  months  since  at  Berlin,^;  and  pur- 
chased the  same  day  for  Thlr.  60,  wa;  a 
May.  From  the  description  we  are  unable 
to  ascertain  the  p  ecisc  kind  of  the  Butsch 
copies,!!  '""^  "'  w'li'^h  brought  101  florins. 


The  September  copy,  sold  the  year  before, 
by  Tross,''  yielded  2S0  francs.  How  dif- 
ferent these  prices  are  from  those  paid 
sixty  years  ago.  The  Lomiinie  de  Brienne 
copy*->  commanded  only  tcur  francs ;  and 
when  it  was  again  brought  under  the  ham- 
mer at  the  Meon  sale,  in  l8o3,ft  to  ob- 
tain six  francs,  the  auctioneer  was  obliged 
to  add  it  to  some  other  work.  The  Eyries 
copy,  which  is  the  first  and  rarest  of  all 
'he  editions,  was  picked  up  at  a  book-stall, 
in  Paris,  by  M.  Eyries  himself,  and  bought 
for  twenty  cents. 


■'  I'Xijmrn  Critiqui^  Vol.  IV,  p.  100,  n»r». 

t  /'.(.  .ir.,  p.  104. 

[  Tromcl,  Bihlinth,  Amiriiaini^  p.  12*;. 

^  Star^ardl  Catalugiie,  No.  i.xKii. 
Ilutsch  Caiaioguc,  Aiigsl)urg.  Feb.,  18;!!,  Nos. 
147  '^  U8- 

•  Catalogue  (or  iSjy- 

'  »  Catalogue  Jc  "  11."  ;  Paris,  1797,  No.  10)5. 

H-  Calalopuc  lie  "M.";  I'aris,  1S07.  No.  1108, 
**  avcc  cette  siiigulicre  iiulication,"  Bruiict  says, 
in  his  valuable  Mjtturl :  *•'  Framofurti  Dttjdtiy 
iin^giii^e  par  nicurt  jeuiie,  rijactcur  de  cc  cata- 
logue, ct  ^]ui  avail  pris  Uioiiait  pour  uii  uom  d'im- 
pnmcur.' 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  96* 

riam  officinam)  a  Saint- Die"."     In  the  Ptolemy  of  1552" 
he  is  mentioned  by  Laurent  Phrysius  as  the  "  late"  de- . 
signer  of  the  maps  contained  in  that  valuable  edition. 

Matthew  Ringmann  or  Philesius  was  a  poet  and 
scholar,  born  at  Schlettstadt,  towards  the  year  1482. 
He  became  a  professor  in  the  Gymnasium  of  the  Vos- 
ges,  and  died  in  151 1'l 

Walter  Ludd  is  mentioned  in  connection  with  the 
work,  on  the  assumption  that  the  initials  G.  L.  in  the  col- 
ophon are  intended  for  his  name.  He  is  even  believed 
to  have  been  the  first  printer  in  St.  Die.  Ludd  may 
have  introduced  printing  in  that  town,  just  as  Mr. 
Glover  established  the  first  press  in  Cambridge,  but  the 
reader  will  see  from  our  No.  49  that  he  was  Secretary 
to  the  Duke  of  Lorraine,  and  a  dignitary  of  the  Church. 

As  to  the  prince  to  whom  the  work  is  dedica»-ed,  it  is 
Rene  H,  called  King  of  Sicily  and  Jerusalem,  the  hero, 
we  believe,  of  the  battle  of  Morat,  and  who  died  in 
1508".  Lelewel  says'^'  that  "  encourageant  I'etude  de  la 
geographie,  il  faisait  graver  a  ses  frais  les  cartes  mo- 
dernes  qui  devaient  accompagner  Ptoiemee." 


1507, 


Direct  rtftrtnctt . 


Panzek.  Annales  Typograp/iici,  Vol.  vi,  page  490. 

ScHEiBEL,  /Istronomische  Bit/iografiiie,  Vol.  i,  page  63. 

Bibliotheca  Grenviliiana,  page  765. 

Bibliolheea  Hehtriana,  I'art  vi,  Nos.  147  and  3847  ;  Fart  vii.  No. 
6409. 

Humboldt,  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  iv,  pages  33  and  100,  note, 

Beaupre,  Rtcherchei  sur  le  commer.cement  de  r Imfrimerie  en  Lor- 
raine (Nancy.  8vo,  1845).  page  67. 

Tkdmel,  Bibliothtjue  Americaine,  No.  i. 

Historical  Nuggets,  Nos.  274  and  2745. 

Graessi.  Vol,  II,  page  280. 

Brunei-,  Vol.  ii,  col.  316  (fac-simile  of  the  printer's  mark). 

Bibliotheca  Thotiiana,  Vo).  vii,  page  219;  Ebeet,  Vol.  iv,  No. 
23544;  Hibbert  Catalogue,  page  129,  No.  2i66 :  and  Te»- 
NAux,  No.  10.  one  of'  the  tour,  but  we  cannot  ascertain  tVam 
the  description  whether  it  is  the  May  or  September  issue. 


"  HvMBOLDT,  Examen  Critique,Vo\.  IV,  '*  Rotermuno,  Fortsetzung  xu  y'^cktr't 

p.  105,17.  Gelehrten-Lexicon,  art.  Ringmann. 

"  . . "  has  tabulas  e  novo  a  Martino  Ila-  '*  Art  de  ftrif. lei  Daies,\'o\.xin,f.  ^10. 


comylu  pic  defuncto."     Lib.  viii,  cap.  11. 


Geogr.  du  \hyen-Age,\'ii\.  11,  p.  143. 


\' 


gS*  Bibliotheca  Americflna. 

I  C07.  48.     MONTALBODDO  {FRAC.  DA)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

==^  (turn  i?ia«amiE®fi© 


Then,  in  a  scroll,  encircling  a  sphere,  and  covering  the  entire  page, 
the  words,  printed  in  red,  and  irregularly,  owing  to  the  folds  of  the 
scroll : 

vdputi0  ^l0vetitiit0  itttitttUto. 

Colophon  : 

^  Stampato  in  Vicentia  cu  la  impenfa  de  Mgro  || 
Henrico  Vicentino  :  &  diligente  cura  &  indu  ||  ftria  de 
Zamaria  fuo  fiol  nel  M.cccccvii.  a||di  iii.  de  Nouembre. 
cum  gratia  &  ||  priuilegio.* 

%*  Sm.  410,  six  preliminary  leaves  +  one  hundred  and  twenty 
unnumbered  leaves,  the  last  blank  ;  twenty-eight  lines  in  a 
full  page.  Text  in  Roman.  Some  copies  present  slight  vari- 
ations in  the  register. 

(Private  Library,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

"  Son  merite  intrinseque  est  grand,  parce  qu'a  I'exception  de  celle 
de  Milan,  1508  [No.  55]  toutes  les  autres  editions  et  traductions  ont 
cprouve,  dans  plusieurs  endroits  du  texte,  des  alterations  sensibles,  et 
pour  des  causes  particulieres."     [?] 

(Charlii  Nodiik'.) 

"  Le  veritable  compilateur  {raccoglitore)  de  ce  curieux  et  important 
Recueil  de  Vicence  n'est,  comme  on  I'a  cru  long-temps,  ni  Montal- 
boddo  Fracanzano  de  Vicence,  ni  Fracanzio  da  Montalboddo,  c'est- 
tk-dire  natif  de  Monte-Alboddo,  dans  la  Marche  d'Ancone,  professear 
de  belles-lettres  a  Vicence  ;  mais  (selon  I'ingenieuse  observation  du 
comte  Baldelli)  Alessandro  Zorzi,  habile  cosmographe  et  dessinateur 
de  cartes  a  Venise." 

(Humboldt*.) 


*  Anglice  i  Countries  newly  discovered, 
and  the  New  World  ot"  Alberico  Vesputio, 
called  the  Florentine.  Printed  in  Vicenza, 
at  the  cost  of  Master  Henrico  Vicentino, 
and  by  the  care  and  skill  of  Zamaria,  his 


son,  November  3d,  1507.  With  permis- 
sion and  privilege. 

•  Catalogue  of  1844,  ^^^^  >»  No.  IC41. 

'  Bxamcn  Critique,  Vol.  iv,  p.  80;  but 
see  infra,  p.  469,  sf. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


97 


The  opinion  that  Zorzi  was  actually  the  compiler  of  I  cqj, 
this  work  IS  based  upon  a  manuscript  note  in  the  Ma- 
ghabechi  copy,  stating  that  Bartholomew  Columbus  (who 
visited  Rome  in  1505)  made  a  present  of  the  account 
of  his  brother's  first  voyage  (probably  the  De  Insults  of 
H93).  with  u  map  of  his  earliest  discoveries,  to  a  canon 
or  St.  John  of  Latran,  and  that  the  latter  gave  it  after- 
wards, while  in  Venice,  to  Alexander  Zorzi,  "  suo  amico 
e  compilatore  della  raccolta." 

The  contents  of  this  rarissime  work  are  as  follows : 

LIBRO  PRIMO. 

(L  In  comenza  el  libra  de  la  prima  Nauivatione  per  loc- 
ceano  a  le  terre  de  Nigri  de  la  Bajfa  Ethiopia  per  com- 
andamento  del  Illuft.  Signor  Infante  Don  Hurich  fratello 
de  Don  Dourth  Re  de  Portogallo. 

This  first  book,  which  extends  from  cap.  i  to  cap.  xlvii  contain, 
the  voyage  of  Aloysius  or  Lewis  da  Ca  daVosto  to^he  C  pe Te'de 
and  Senegal  (August  8th,  1454,  to  June.  1455).'  ^ 

LIBRO  SECUNDO. 

C  Dela  Nauigatione  de  Lijbona  a  Callichut  de  lenzua 
Portogalleje  intaliana.  * 

fPe\'erTcimrlwn?'  ""l"'  '°  't  ""  '^'  '°>"'S*=  °^  P'"°  ^'^inzia 
III  7        .?         ^  to  Senega  ,  in  1462,  written  by  Ca  da  Mosto  as  it 
fell  from  the  l,ps  ot  C.ntra's  secretary.    From  cap.  l.  to  cap.  lxi    the 
first  voyage  of  Vasco  da  Gama*  (July  8th,  1497.  to  July  loth    i^^o) 
and    that  of  Pedro    Alvarez    Cabra     iuJr^.h     /jc^.    to  'jd  •' 


« 


ZuRLA,  Dei  Fiaggi  e  Jelle  Scoperte 
/ijncane  Ji  Ca  da  Moito  {  Venice,  8vo, 
1815. 

KuLB,  Geic/iichte  der   Entdekungsreiien  : 
Mentz,  8vo,  1841. 


*  Castanheda,  Hht.  do  Dttcoir.  t  Con- 
juista  Ja  India;  Coimbra,  410,  1551,  and 
Faria  y'  Souza,  ^sia  Portugueaa ,  Lisb.. 
fol.  1666.  Camoens,  OS  Lusiadas  f  Lis- 
bon, 4to,  1572.     Denis,  Portugal ;  Paris, 


SPRENcEt,     GnMi,,    der    -uiichtizsun     8v       ,8^6^    K     "'"""'''"■'•^'''i  ?"« 
En.d.kungen;  HaHe.  ...o.  .79Z.     '  S^.^L,  ^.r^.tv^-.T;..^"'-'-' 

13 


98  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1507.  LIBRO  rERTIO. 

^=^'=     ([  j)e  la   nauigatione  de  Lijbona   a  Caliebut  (sic),  de 
lengua    Portogallefe  in  taliana. 

It  contains,  from  cap.  lxi  to  cap.  lxxziiii,  the  continuation  of  Ca- 
bral's  voyage. 

LIBRO  QUARTO. 

(£  In  comenza  la  nauigatione  del  Re  de  Cajliglia  dele  Ifole 
y  Paeje  nouamente  retrouate. 

It  contains,  from  cap.  lxxxiiii  to  cap.  cviii,  the  first  three  voyages  of 
Columbus ;  from  cap.  cvni  to  cap.  cxi,  the  voyage  of  Alonso  Negro 
{sic),  and  from  cap,  cxi  to  cap.  cxiiii  the  voyage  of  the  brothers 
Pinzon, 

LIBRO  ^UINTO. 

CE  El  Nouo  Mondo  de  Lengue  Spagnole  interpretato  in 
Idioma  Ro. 

It  contains,  from  cap.  cxiiii  to  cap.  cxxv,  the  duplicate  of  Vespuccius* 
third  voyage. 

LIBRO  SEXTO. 

([  De  le  cqfe  da  Calichut  cbforme  ala  Nauigatide  de 
Pedro  A  Hares  nel.  ii.  £s?  .  Hi.  libra  leqle  Je  bano  uerijfeme 
Perle  Copie  de  alciine  Lre  Jecundo  lordene  de  li  Millejfimi 
in  quejlo  ultime  racolte. 

It  contains.  Cap.  cxxv  :  a  chapter  of  a  letter  from  Critico,  the  Por- 
tuguese correspondent  of  the  Signoria  of  Venice,  concerning  ihe  voy- 
age of  Cabral,  described  in  Book  11.  Cap.  cxxvm  (which  comes 
immediately  afterwards) :  A  letter  concerning  a  treaty  of  peace  be- 
tween the  Kings  of  Portugal  and  Calicut.  Cap.  xxvi :  Letter  of  the 
Venetian  embassador  ("  oratorc"),  Peter  Pasquaglio,  concerning  Cas- 
par Cortereal's  first  voyage  (from  the  Spring  of  1500,  to  October  8th, 
1501).  Cap.  cxxvii :  Letter  of  Francis  de  la  Saita  to  Pasquaglio, 
concerning  John  de  Nova's  expedition  (March  5th,  1501,  to  Septem- 
ber ilth,  1502)  to  the  East  Indies.  G;^.  cxxix,  and  cxxx  :  Account 
given  by  Joseph,  the  Indian  (Camanor,  a  converted  aborigene  brought 
to  Portugal  by  Cabral,  and  afterwards  to  Rome  and  \'enice).  Cap. 
cxxxi-cxLiii :  Account  of  Carangonor  and  Calicut.  Cap.  cxLiii : 
Letter  of  the  King  of  Portugal  to  Pope  Julius  II,  concerning  the  Por- 
tuguese navigations  and  discoveries  in  Asia. 


At 


Bibliotheca  Americana,  gg 

We  have  dwelt  upon  the  contents  of  this  work  because    I  eo7 
It  IS  the  most  important  collection  of  voyages,  and    •-       ^    '' 
the  absence  of  the  Libretto  of  VerceIlese^  now  lost,  'the  ^^ 
earliest.     It  has  been  frequently  reprinted  and  translated. 
and  serves  to  this  day,  m  the  Latin  repertory  of  Grv- 
naeus,  as  a  trustworthy  and  interesting  source  of  infor- 


mation. 


Dirtct  rtftrtntti 


\ 


Fo$CA«i!.i,  LmtTMT,  FntmUmM,  pages  4»i-4. 

BALDtLL,.  //    »f?y/,«,VoJ.    ,,  p^  ^  ,^, 

T..A.OSCH,,  &,„^,  Vol.  T„,  p,^  „,  „i  J 

Camcs  A£«ctV,  ttr  fir  ^.y,  pjje  .^jf  ^ 

Bihlhtkeea  GrcrcuiisMA,  pjje  764. 

to  the  Utter  Of  whkh  ^.^  ^btinlr"  "'•  ''°-  "'• 

„f  M,-       ■     '      """  .    •»•  wb^ned  j  verv  canous  co  lection 

H.bb«r.  Ot^or^,  W*  '93.  No.  i6j,. 
BlUKET,  Vol.  »,  cd.  1156. 
Hisierical  A'Mggm,  Xo.  1-45 

'';","'e«.t''v2Tk''°'-  ""'•  >»«'  563.  No,.  3  „<,  ^ 


49.     LUDD  itVALTER  -Rtct,  tf  the  first  lesf: 

^i^icnix  ^xhxB  fttfonttfT. 
C(in0nii 


'See 


•»/".  f»f«  -5.  Xo.  31. 


lOO 


Bibliotheca   Americana. 


I  S^J*        Then,  encircling  a  diagram  showing  the  planetary  system ; 

-"■—  iFoelicig  animae  quitus  l)aec  cognofrerc  primum  || 
Jnqp  lromo»  fuperas  franlrcrc  rura  fuit.  II  |lon  fruf= 
tta  fignotum  obituis  fperulamur  tx  ottus.  II  (!rempo= 
riijufqp  pawm  Uiuetfi»  quatuora  nnum  {sk). 

And  at  the  bottom  of  the  page  : 

$ic  Umtnm, 

Co/ophon  : 

3ii^rli%  II  ^^^^•'"•'^  "*  fpp- II  culfl  ottis  p 
|ll^irV4ll  II  (Bualttf  II  ra  UnW  (tamnitH 
liiui  II  3I3cot>ati  JUuftriffimi  Hcna  II  ti  ^olgmorum 
ac  3icUiac  regis  II  ^r.  fcrrc  tarium  liigniffimfl  || 
tiiUgenter  paratum  ||  ct  inUuftria  Joan- II  nis  ®rflni= 
geri  II  Ergetin,  im-  II  preffum  ||  ffiuig.  II* 

%*  Folio,  four  numbered  leaves ;  text  in  black  letter ;  diagrams  on 
the  verso  of  leaf  ii  and  on  the  recto  of  leaf  iii.  The  date, 
according  to  the  dedication  to  Rene,  on  folio  ii,  is  1507.     On 

the  verso  of  folio  iii  are:  l^'erfifttU  tlf  inrOgiUta  UtXiXf 

the  last  two  lines  of  which  read: 

Sbtn  qH  pluta :  fitii,  grntis  morcfop  rcptf  II  Bmtx^ 
icl  parua  mole  Utellus  tatet.llf 

(British  Museum.) 


*  Anglici  :   A  most  suctinct  but  neither 
inaccurate    nor    inelegant    Exposition    and 
Canon  of"  the  IVlirror  of' the  World. 
Happy  the  first  who  felt  tlieir  spirits  yearn 
To  climb  the  Heavens  and  all  their  secrets 

learn. 
Nor  vain  nor  idle  is  our  taste  to  scan 
How,    moving   ever   through    that    upper 

sphere, 
Stars  rise  and  set,  and   how  in   Heaven's 

high  place 
Four  seasons  rounding  till  the  equal  year. 

Dedicated  to  Rene,  King  of  Sicily,  Sk. 


The  End  of  the  Eiposition  of  the  Mir- 
ror of  y'  World,  most  diligently  prepared 
by  Walter  Ludd,  Canon  of  St.  Die,  most 
worthy  Secretary  of  Rene,  the  most  Illus- 
trious King  of  Jerusalem  and  Sicily.  I'rint- 
ed  by  the  pains  of  John  Gruninger  of 
Strasburg. 

+  But  hold,  enough !  Of  the  American  race, 
New  found,  the   home,  the  manners  here 

you  trace 
By  our  small  book  set  forth  in  little  space. 

'  The  reader  who  has  access  to  Chev- 
KI««,   .Mimoiret   pour  ttrvir  a  I'iist.    </«, 


lOI 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 

SO.  rESPuccivs  (AMERicus)-^^  VON  DEN  NEWEN    '5o8. 

Infulen  vnd  Landen  fo  ym  kurtzlichen  erfundenn  feynd 

durch  den  kiinigk  Portigal. 

"  Gedrucki  zu  Straffburg  in  dem  funfftzen  hunderten  und 
achtjar  (,508),  et  prefente  la  m8me  vignette  que  Tedi- 
tion  de  1506"  [No.  40]. 

(Bkunit'.) 

Oirta  r,/.„„cn:(^  Manual,  Vol.  v,  col.  ,,56. 
I      I'lfies  curieux.  No.  1 1 7 


5  I .    STAMLER  ijOHN^Within  a  very  complicated  woodcut  ■ 

DYALOGVS      lOHANNlS    STAIUtpd      a  i. 
OVSTN    „UE  DIVERSAKVM  GEN^l-^M  SEc" 
IISIIET  MVNDI  RELIGIONIBVS 

Colophon  ; 

Impreffum  Augufte:  per  Erhardum  oe- 
lin.  &  leorgm  Nadler  Curallcorreaone  et 
diligentia  vcnerabilis  domini  Wolfeangi 
A-ttrngerllpfpiteri  Auguftefl.  ac  bonfZ 
nolbe  n.r;  'S'*^"  Collonienf.il  Anno 
May"  et"  •••^°-  ^  •'•  ^'^  •"•  --^^ 


8vo,    1754,  or   to  Calm£t,   Notia   d,  la 

am  whether  th<s    Walter    Ludd  was   not 

Ludd,  who  had  been  Secretary  ,0  several 
.."n.r;-  ''V"  "^..'"^'■-eenjoyin,  the  per- 
sonal friendship  of  Rene  II.  aI.  Brunet 
calls  h.m  a  printer,  and  considers  the  vie- 
nette  m  the  above  Number  as  his  mark  • 

yet  the  colophon  of  the  present  ^^?^^L« 
.how.   that  he  held   to   Rene    the^  offic" 


which  Joan    Ludd  rilled    when  John    and 
N.chc^as  were  Dukes  of  Lorraine, 
an   A^!i'   ?'''"e"'=   i-y  J"hn  Stamler, 
d"vet^       "'    ^"'""''   •  ""    'he    sect,    of 
M.  "'"""^   '"^   '^'  ^-'igi""^  of  the 

anrr"'"*  «„'^"g'''"rg   by  Erhard   Oglln 
^nd  Georges  Nadler,  with  the  care,  corre 

Cologne,A.  D.  .jog.Mayioth' 


I02 


Bibliotheca  AmgHcana. 


I  50"*         *^,*  Folio,  title  +  two  preliminary  leaves,  -f  thirty-two  numbered 
II  leaves,  +  an  index  of  two  leaves.    The  woodcut  title  by  Hans 

Burgmaier  is  repeated  on  the  reverse. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York,  Washington  city,  and  Harvard  Coll.  Libr.) 

"An  extremely  rare  and  curious  Drama  described  on  the  leaf  fol- 
lowing the  title  as  "  Dyalogus  in  modum  comici  dramatis  formatus  a 
J.  Stamlcr  dc  Tartarorum,  Saracenorum,  Turcorum,  Judeorum  et 
Gentilium  Scctis  ct  Religionibus  ac  eorundem  Confutatione,  &c. 
The  letter  from  Stamlcr  to  Jacob  Lorcher,  dated  13  Kal.  Junii  1506, 
is  of  the  highest  interest  to  American  collectors,  as  he  mentions  by 
name  Christopher  Columbus  and  Albericus  Vespucius  as  the  dis- 
coverers of  the  New  World.  The  Drama  has  a  marginal  Commen- 
tary, which  is  important  not  only  to  theologians  as  pointing  out  here- 
sies, but  also  to  the  astronomer.  Stamlcr  seems  to  have  been  an 
enemy  to  judicial  astrology." 

(LiBRI.I) 

We  give  the  passage  for  the  purpose  of  enabling  the 
reader  to  ascertain  whether  the  above  eulogium  tallies 
with  the  facts. 

y^erso  of  the  second  unnumbered  leaf : 

De  infulis  aute  inuentis  mentione  nulla 
facio :  Sed  Criftoferi  Colom  erunde  inue- 
toris  et  Alberici  Vefpucii  de  orbe  moderno 
inuento  (quibus  etas  noftra  potiflimu  de- 
bet) quos  tibi  prefentibus  tradatulos  mitto 
confpicias.-f- 


Dirtct   rtftrtncet . 


Bihtlolheca  Thottiana,  Vol.   vir,  page  jg 
Panzer,  Anttalti  Typogr.,  Vol.  vi,  page  137. 
Zapf,  Anna!.  Typogr.  Auguiiana;,  page    j8. 
Libri  Catalogue  for  1861,  No.  319. 
Bibliothtca  Barloiviana,  page  14. 

Brunet,  Vol.  V,  col.  507,  gives  the  title  from  the  first  prelimi- 
nary leaf. 
Hislorical  Nuggett,  No.  1603. 


t  ^(3. ;  I  do  not  make  any  mention  ot'the  Albericus  Vespucius  :  On  the  discovery  of 
newly  discovered  islands,  but  of  Christopher  the  new  world  ( to  whom  our  age  is  chiefly 
Colom,  the  discoverer  of  a  world,  and  of    indebted)  behold   what  treatise  1  send  you. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  ,oj 

^.«//,  .  ^.  /.  religio.  \\  ni  del  mondo.  \\  ^  " 

Colophon : 

[M  .,heo  Gu  genft],  „,  amno  placabile  e  gratiofo  Ijla 
fmpUae  t.cc.ola  mftra  MkaHone  :  la,ualeja  me  J  all 
im  dcduiffmo  difcpolo  a  m  di  Agofio.  ,  joy. 

(British  Museum.) 

This  is  simply  a  translation  into  Italian  of  No.  51. 

fl/W  r,/„.-«...  r  Libri  Catalogue,  ,86.,  No.  ,jn 
I  BHUNIT,  Vol.  V,  col.  507. 


53.  .«■;».«..,  ,5,^c.  '■'"^.)-"  Supplement,' dele  Chro- 
n.che  vulgare  „„uan,e„.e  dal  fra.e  Jacobo  Phil,>p„  °, 
anno   ,50,  vulgarize.,  pe.  Francefco  C,   FioI'L 
Vinegia,  1508,  in-fol.  urentino. 

decouverl,  de  rAmiri<,ue  far  Ch.  Colomb." 

(Critaini') 

As   regards    these   Italian    versinnc     ri  ,     • 

one,  Venice    folio    i,^?       u-i   ^        '    ^^emenf  g  ves 

cien^e;"  but' ^^^  find  it'Bru'nei'  \''\''^-  Plus%n. 
fol     "V«/.  «runet  another  of  1488   Venirf. 


'  Catalogue,  Parii,  ,g6j,  No.  73. 


^'MW/4.  CurUu,,,  Vol.  in,  p.  ,8,. 


i 


I04 


Bibliotheca  Americana, 


I  508,  cilia  di  Fiorenza  queslo  anno  1488,"  which  is  followed  in 
■  _  1  ..  Graesse'  by  what  would  he  an  earlier  one  still :  "  Ven.^ 
Bern,  Rizo  de  Novara,  1481.  in-fol.,"  were  it  not  iden- 
tical with  Clement's  1491  edition.  We  then  find  the 
above,  which  escaped  the  lynx  eyes  of  Clement,  Haym, 
Niceron,  and  Fahriciiis;  another,  folio,  Venice,  1540*, 
and  155J';  iOid.,  1554,  4to,  and  157;?,  2  vols.  4to ; 
and  1581,  with  additions  borrowed  from  P.  Jovius, 
Bembo,  Carione,  and  Guaz/o''. 

The  first  translation  was  made  by  one  Francisco  San- 
sovino,  notwithstanding  the  initial  C.  in  the  Cretaine 
and  Brunet  titles.  The  additions  in  the  Italian  edition 
of  1540  were  made  by  one  Bernardo  Bindoni. 


^4,  ALBF.RTiNis  (FRANCIS  DE)-"  De  Mirabilibus  novs 
6c  veteris  Urbis  Ronije.  Libri  III.  ex  E^dit.  Andr. 
Fulvii  Praeneftini,  Roma;,  in  4to.  Premiere  Edition. 

(Climent*.) 

The  learned  Hessian  bibliographer  gives  this  title  on 
the  authority  of  the  Bibliotheca  Menkeniana,  page  196,  and 
seems  to  disbelieve  its  authenticity.  Panzer*  calls  the 
edition  of  15 10  "  Editio  prima.'' 

55.  zoR.:i  (ALEXANDER)-  V^itCi  nuouamentc  re- 
trouati.  &  Nouo  Modo  da  Alberico  Vef- 
putio   F'lo-llretino  intitulato.|| 

Then  woodcut  filling  the   rest  of  the  page,  and   representing  the 
king  seated  on  a  throne  and  receiving  Vespuccius. 

Colophon : 

C  Stampato  in  Milano  con  la  impenfa 
de  lo.  lacobo  &  fratelli  dallLignano:  &  dili- 

»  Triior,  Vol,  I,  p.  541.  <  MoLiNi,  Aggiunti,p.  »39,  and  Haym, 

*  Haym,  Biblioth.  Italiana,  Vol.  i,  p.  51.  Uc.  cii. 

*  NicttoN,  Mimcirei  pour  ttr-vir  a/'iii-  '     Bih/iotiifue  Curieusi,  Vol.  I,  p.  120. 
uirt  dtt  Aommes  illuttrei,  Vol.  .wil,  p.  123.          "  Annalei,  Vol.  VIII,  p.  249. 


Bibliotheca  /Imericana.  105 

gente  ciira  &  induftria  di  loanne  Angelo    1508. 
fcinzcnllzclcr.    M.ccccc  viii.  a  di.  xvii.  di  ' 

Noucmbre.*|| 

Then  register  and  printer's  mark. 

**  Sm.  410,  jeventy-nine'  unnumbered  leaves;  text  in  Roman. 

(Private  Library,  New  York,  and  Harv.  Coll.  Libr.     In 
tlic  Litter  the  title  is  only  a  lac-iimile.) 

Dirici  rifirintit :  (    Bihiioiheca  Grtnvil/iaiia,  page  764. 

•j  Nonim,  Deicripiion  raiionnit.  No,  1106. 
I  BRVNtr,  Vol.  V,  col.  1157. 
TiUNAui,  No.  II  I  ?].  We  have  not  yet  succeeded  in  finding 
any  traces  ot"  the  Vicenra  edition  ot'  1508,  mentioned  in  the 
Bihliothijuf  /imeriiain((So.  II),  the  l.ivrti  Curitux  (So.  109). 
and  the  .Uj<i«f/ (Vol.  v,  col.  11^8,  on  the  authority  ot  Payne 
and  Koss'  catalojjue  for  18^0,  No.  3359).  We  think  that 
in  the  latter  Mcccccviii  should  read  mcccccvii. 


C6.     PTOLEMr-BF.NF.yENT/INUS~Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

IN  HOC  OPERE||HAEC  CONTI  ||  NF.NTVR  || 
GEographiae  Cl.  Ptolemaei  a  plurimi  uiris 
utriuscp  lingUcE  docti{r.  ||  emedata  :  &  cu 
archetype  graeco  ab  ipfis  collata.  ||  Sche- 
mata cu  demonftrationibus  fuis  corred:a  a 
Marco  Beneuentano||  Monacho  cicleftino, 
&  loanne  Cotta  Veronenfi  uiris  Mathema- 
ticisllconfultiflimis.llFIgura  de  proiediione 
fph^ra^  in  piano  quae  in  libro  od:auo  de- 
fidera  ||  batur  ab  ipfls  nodum  inftaurata 

♦  Countries  newly  discovered,  and  New  'The   Livrtt    Curifu*  (No.    118)  say 

World  of  Alberic  Vesputio.  called  the  Flo-  "  iv  teuiUets  prelimin.iires,  et   80  feuillets 

rentine.     Printed   at  Milan,  at   the    cost  non  chilKres,  a  40  lignes  par  page,  lettret 

of  John  Jacob  and  Brothers,  of  Lignano,  rondes,    Ic     dernier     f.    est     Mut    blanc." 

and  attention   and  skill  of  John  Angelas  Brunet  gives  "  76  ff.  nun  chitt'rcs,  sign.  A 

Scinienieler.     November    17th,  1508.  et   a — s    par  4." 

14 


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u 


!4 


1 06  Bibliotheca  /im:ricana. 

1508.  fed  fere   ad   inuenta   eius.  n.  ueftigia  ||  in 

• nullo  etiam  graeco  codice  extabant.  ||  MAxi- 

ma  quantitas  diei^  ciiiitatu  :  &  diftantije 
locoi^  ab  Alexadria  ||  Aegypti  cuiufqj  ciui- 
tatis :  quae  in  alijs  codicibus  no  erant.  || 
PLanifphxTiiim  Cl.  Ptolemi^i  nouiter  re- 
cognitu  &  diligcntifl'.  emen-  ||  datum  a 
Marco  Beneuentano  Monacho  cyleftino.  || 
NOua  orbis  dcfcriptio  ac  noiia  Oceani 
nauigatio  qua  Lifbona  ad||Indicu  perue- 
nitur  pclagus  Marco  Bencuenrano  mo- 
nacho ciule-lUtino  audita. II  NOua  &  uniuer- 
falior  Orbis  cognitl  tabula  loa.  Ruylch 
(icrmano II  claborata.il  SKy  Tabulae  nouiter 
confcda,'    uidelicet    Liuonis  :    Hyfpania;  : 


Galliic  :  II  Gerrnanioj  :    Italiae :   &;  ludaj.l 


CAVTVM  EST  KDICTO  IVLll.  II.  I'ON'l'.  MAX.1|NK 
OVIS  IMI'RIMERK  AVT  IMPRIMI  ||  FACKRE  AVDEAT  HOC 
IKSVM  OPVS  li  PENA  EXCOMMVNICATIONIS  LATAE 
SENTENTIAE  H  HIS  QVI  CONTRA  MANDATVM  IVS- 
SVMy     VE  II  CONARI    AVEBVN  T.  .  ||   ANNO     VIRGINEI 


PARTNS 


MDVIir 


ROMEl,* 


*  * 

* 


Large  tblio  ;  title  one  -|-  thirty-four  preliminary  leaves  + 
seventy-one  unnunihcred  leaves +"iie  Wank,  + '"urtcen  leaves 
tor  Marcus  Boncvcnianus'  A';//,/  or/>ii  t/etfriptio  .;<■  noua  Oifani 
niiuie,<iti(j  (jiiti  LiihoHii  <i,l  Indini  pcrucnitur  pelagus  -|-  twenty- 
leaves  tor  the  chapter  Di  Trifim  orhis  p.niiLus,  -\-  thirty-four 
maps,  illuminated. 

(I'riv.ite  Lihrar.,  Brooklyn  and  Wjsliington  tity.) 


'Angliii:     Cl.iUiliu>    I'tnlcmy.       This     r.i[>liy  ot  ("L    ..ii»  Pi,ilet7iy  leviscd  by  injny 
wuric  cuntjint  the  tuUuwini;  :  The  Geug-     men  lexrned  in  both  Ung'.u|jci,  and  com- 


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Bibliotheca  Americana.  107 

Our  readers  are  doubtless  aware  that  immediately  after    I  508" 


the  publication  of  Angelo's'  and  de  Uonis"'  Latin  trans- 
lations of  Ptolemy's  Geography,  a  new  ligiu  seemed  to 
dawn  upon  the  learned,  and  the  works  of  Strabo,  Soli- 
nus,  Isidorus  of  Seville,  and  even  I'liny,  "  maestre  de 
mappa  mundi,"  were  thrust  aside,  and  replaced  by  the 
Cosmography  of  :!ii  Alexandrian  mathematician  or 
geographer,  which,  however  incomplete  it  may  seem  to 
us  at  present,  was  justly  considered  in  the  fifteenth  cen- 
tury as  a  model  and  a  wonder.  But  Geography  is  pre- 
eminently a  progressive  science;  and  a  more  precise 
knowledge  of  the  voyages  and  discoveries  accomplished 
by  Machin,  Giliancz,  Baklaya,  Gon/ales,  Nuno  Tristan, 
da  Cintra,  Denys  Kernande/,  Ca  da  Mosto,  Diego  Cam, 
Bartholomew  Hias,  Covilham  and  tie  l*ayva,  together 
with  the  marvelous  accounts  of  Marco  Polo's  travels', 
had  the  effect  of  convincing  the  geographers  of  the  times 
that  neither  the  Gt'o^rap/tia  nor  the  twenty-seven  magnif- 
icent maps  of  Agathodai'mon  were  adequate.  But  as  to 
commence  a  new  Cosmography  was  an  undertaking  alto- 
gether beyond  their  scope,  and  averse  even  to  the  spirit 


I'd  by  many 
anJ  com- 


pared by  them  with  the  Greclf  original; 
Hlatci  with  their  expljnatiuns  corrected  by 
Marcus  of  Bcnevent,  a  munk  ot  the  Ccli's- 
tinc  order,  and  John  Cotta  of  Veron.i,  very 
ciperienced  mathematicianii.  A  planome- 
trical  representation  of  spheric  projcciiori 
[  '  ]  which  was  wanting  in  the  eighth  hook, 
left  incomplete  by  the  same,  but  planned 
according  to  his  [  I'tidemy's  I']  precepts; 
and  of  which  there  were  no  traces  even  in 
the  IJrcek  MS.  The  greatest  number  of 
traveling  days  [  '  ]  between  cities,  and  ihe 
dii^nccs  of  places  from  Alexandria  in 
Egypt,  which  were  not  in  the  other  codices, 
The  I'iaiiisphere  of  CI.  Ptoiemy  newly 
revised  and  carefully  corrected  by  Marcus 
of  Bcnevent,  a  Celestine  monk,  A  new 
description  of  the  world,  and  a  new  de- 
scription of  the  Ocean  whcrebv  one  goes 
from  l.isl>un  to  the  i:idian  Ocean,  edited 
by  Marcus  of  Benevent,  a  Cclcstine  monk. 
A  new  and  more  general  map  of  the  entire 
globe,  composed   by  John   Ruytch,  a  Ucr- 


m.i,..  Six  maps  newly  cimstructed,  -vii.  : 
of  l.ivonia,  Spain,  Frame,  Germany,  Italy 
ii\ii  |udea. 

Hy  an  edict  of  I'opc  |ulius  II,  it  is  for- 
bidilen  to  print  this  work  or  to  have  it 
printed  under  pen.ilty  of  exiommunication 
piunounced  again-.t  those  who  dare  infringe 
this  order.      A.  I).  I  ;o8. 

'  Posthumous  ;  Vicen/a,  foliu,  1461 
{Hi,Jfm,iiin)  01    14-^  (lirunei). 

'  lUm,  folio,  14S1. 

'  l.r  l.irif  lit  Miirio  I'o/o,  cito\ni  dt 
t'eniie,  cotiieilltr  ptivr  tt  (ommiiiaire  im- 
fftrijl  tif  K^auhi/tti- Kiiiirif  fijij^c  (n  j'ran* 
fiiii  tuui  til  iluiie,fn  i  ^yS, />.»>  Ruttiiien 
lit  fist  f  publii  poar  la  premiere  /uii  ifiiprri 
Iruis  manuicrits  intMit  Je  la  Hil'iii^t/iejut 
imptriale  Jt  I'arii,  pnienlant  la  reJjithn 
primiliie  ilu  Livte,  retut  par  Mare- 
l'i>l,  lui-mime  el  Jounce  par  lui,  en  I  307, 
a  I'hichaull  Je  Cipy,  &c.,  (jjfi.,  par 
M.  G.  Pauihier.  Paris,  1  vols,  gvo, 
1865. 


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I  Co8.    which  then  ruled  all  classes  of  scholars,  Ptolemy's  Geog- 

ranhy  was  preserved  entire,  and  made  to  form  a  kind 

of  nucleus,  around  which  were  gathered  under  the  title 
of  "  Extra  Plolemeum,"  the  results  of  all  subsequent 
investigations.  The  maps,  especially,  which,  when  first 
introduced  by  the  German  Benedictine  Nicholas  Donis, 
numbered  only  twenty-seven,  were  increased  in  number, 
and,  to  a  certain  extent,  perfected.  The  startling  dis- 
coveries of  Columbus,  Cubral,  Vasco  da  Gama,  Miagel- 
lan  and  others,  gave  a  new  impetus  to  the  geographical 
science,  which,  so  far  as  we  are  concerned,  culmmated 
in  the  present  edition  of  Ptolemy,  which  contains  the 
first  engraved  map  representing  the  newly  rediscovered 
isles  and  hemisphere. 

"Jean  Ruysch  developpc,  pour  sa  table  univcrscllc,  la  projection 
loniquc  sur  tons  les  360  dcgrcs  dc  longitude,  et  jusqu'a  4>'^  de  la  lati- 
tude australe  :  dc  cettc  (a^on  il  deroulc  toutes  les  nouvelles  dccouvertes 
graduces.  Terra  sitnctn  crucii  live  mumiui  nouus,  ne  dittcre  en  rien 
de  ce  qu'on  voit  dans  I'liydrographie  portugaise'.  (^n  y  lit  en  has: 
naute  Lusitani  partem  hunt  tit  re  hujui  u/ixn'irunt  rt  tisc/ue  ad  ckva- 
tionitn  fall  antarctiii  50  graduum  fcrvcncrunt,  nundum  tamcn  ad  ejui 
jinem  austrinumA  Cependant  les  cpigraphes  dcs  totes  n'avancent  que 
jusqu'au  40'  degre,  cominc  dans  I'hydrographie.  Taliula  terrT  nov.x- 
de  cette  hydrographie,  reproduite  en  I>I3,  i?20,  i>22,  1535,  oftVe 
une  singulicre  errcur  dans  I'epigraphe  de  abbatia  omnium  sanctorum, 
au  lieu  de  iiahia,  Iiaya,  baie.  Cette  errcur  figure  dans  les  quatre  voy- 
ages editcs  par  llacoini!  [  Hylacomylus].  On  cr(jirait  que  cette  erreur 
est  inventec  par  I'editeur  Ilacomilus,  qui  probablemcnt  coopera  dans 
la  publication  de  I'hydrographie.  Mais  la  carte  de  Ruysch,  attachce 
a  I'edition  r(jmaine  dr  i  508  de  Ptolemee  it  laijuelle  est  jointe,  nova 
orbis  dcscriptio  de  Benvenuti,  prescnte  la  meine  erreur :  or,  elle 
a  sa  source  dans  la  traduction  latine  de  Giocondo,  qu'en  1  ^04  Ben- 
venuti expedia  de  Lisbonne  en  Lorraine  et  que  lui-meme  apporta  en 
Italic." 


*  Lclcwcl,  HumliiilJt  .iiid  Sjntarcm's 
lonstant  reterrncis  fu  the  "  l'.irtuj;ac»f 
Hvilrdgraphy,"  .ipiily  to  a  ni.i|i  uiiltreil 
iVum  Poitugal  aliKut  1504,  by  Kiii);  Kciii' 
•  it  Liitralnr,  wIid  t"i)k  great  iiitrrrst  ill 
gr>iKra|'hiial  ttuiiie,,  and  whicli  it  trpre- 
jented  li>  have  lieeii  drawn  by  an  Admiral 
in  the  icrvitr  nt  King  Ferdinand  ol' Spain, 
(>ce    Eitler    Jnd    L'belin'i   preface    tu   the 


abiivc  Violtmy).  Fur  a  statciDcnt  tending 
til  prove  that  the  said  Admiral  was  Colum- 
bus hiinti'lt',  till'  readci  may  consult  the 
I'lalemy  of  1  ^  1  }  {infra). 

t  /'/a.  .■  The  l'iirlu(;uesc  mariners  ex- 
amined this  part  lit'  the  lartli,  and  went  is 
lar  aj  the  ;oth  degree  iit°  the  elevation  ut 
the  Antarctic  |)olr,  but  not  to  the  Southern 
end  of  it. 


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■ilRTb    fX- 

11,1  went  li 
elevation  nl 
II-  Southetn 


'•  Au  nord  de  cc  iKJUVcau  inonde  Ruysch  est  different  dc  I'hydrogra-      I  ^00» 
phie  pcjrtugaiiie."    11  ignore  bcaucuup  plus  Ics  decouvcrtes  cspagnoles."  ^^g^^gs^msm 

(Lkliwel*.) 

"  Quant  a  la  dernicrc  ct  la  plus  rcmarquablc  de  ces  cartes,  c'est-a- 
dire  la  mappcniondc,  Jean  Ruysih  n'a  tait  <iuc  la  dessincr,  et  c'est 
Marc  Beneventanus,  I'autcur  du  textc  qui  accompagnc  cctte  nouvellc 
description  do  I'univcrs,  tjui  s'cn  est  fait  I'cditeur,  Mais  cctte  circon- 
stance  n'amoindrit  en  ricn  le  nierite  de  I'allemand  Ruysch,  que  Bene- 
ventanus appellc  "  (leographorum,  meo  judicio,  peritissimus,  ac  in 
piugendo  orbe  diligentissiinus,"  et  qui,  navigateur  intrepidc,  parti  du 
sud  de  I'Angletcrre,  en  conipagnie  peut-<;tre  d'Aineric  Vcspuce,  etait 
parvenu  au  dela  de  I'equateur  jusqu'au  53^  de  latitude  australe,  et,  sous 
cc  mcme  parallclc,  avait  visite  plu.sieurs  lies  dans  le  voisinage  meme 
du  defroit  que  devait  decouvrir  Magellan. 

"  N'(Jubli(>nspas,entiM,qu'un  protection  plus  puissantequeic  cardinal 
dc  Nantes,  le  pape  Jules  II,  avait,  dcs  le  2S  juillet  I  506,  accorde  a 
I'cditeur  Tosinus  un  privilege  de  vcnte  exclusive  pour  six  anndcs,  en 
recompense  de  ses  soins  et  trais  de  publication  pour  la  cosmographic 
dc  Ptolemee,  accrue  dc  lii  dcHripthn  et  poiition  da  terres  nouvcllement 
dicouverits.  Cctte  description  nouvelle,  cct  accroissement  dc  textc, 
prouvent  que  deux  ans  avani  c]u'il  tut  (|uestion  de  la  mappemunde  de 
Ruysch,  on  songcait  deja  a  constatcr  Ics  progres  rccents  dc  la  geographic. 

"  Le  privilege  de  vente  exclusive  tut  subordonne  a  un  autre  privilege, 
destine  a  le  tnoderer,  et  accorde  it  un  chan(jine  de  Saint-Jean-de-La- 
tran,  bibliothccaire  et  faniilicrde  Jules  II,  charge  par  le  pape  dc  fixer 
\e  juitf  prix  de  I'ouvragc  iniprinie  a  cinq  cents  exeinplaires." 

(Thomawi*.  ) 

The  present  Ptolemy  is  only  a  reprint  of  the  follow- 
ing: 

"Bl.la;  JN  HOC  OI'KRAE  (  ?)||HAEC  CONTINEyTVR 

.'JliGEOGRAPHIACL.  I'TOLKMAKI.   A  pluriniis  uiris  utriusq; 

inguac  doctiss.  \\  eniendata  :    k  cum   Archetypo  graeco  ab   ipsis  col- 

ata. —  11  schemata  cum  demonstrationibus  suis  correcia  a  Marco  Mo- 

nacho   Caclestino    Beneuen-  {|  tano :  &    loannc    Cota   Vcroncnsi   uiris 

Mathematicis  consultissimis.  —  ||  &c,,  &c. 

"  Bl.  107  a:  Nee  nO  Clautiii  Ptholemaei  a  piurimus  utriusq  ;  |j  lin- 
guae doctiss.  emendatii  cum  multis  additi(ji:ibus  Rome  1  ? )  No-  \\  uitcr 
imprcssum  per  Bernardinii  Vt-ietu  de  V'italibus.  Expesis  \\  Euagelista 
Tosino  Brixiani)  Bibliopola  I  ?  1  Im  panic  Julio.  II.  Pont.  I  Max.  An- 
111.  r^tificaius  tui.  Dit*\ni.  SeptCbr.  M.  D.  Vll." 


no 


(HolrrMANii'.) 


*  Giiirapkit   •/-    MoyiH-zl^i,   Vul.    11,  '   BiHiugrapAiuiti  l^xuom  Jtr  gttjmm- 
p.   149.  ttn    l.ilttratur     Jtr      Gritsktn  f     Lripiig, 

•  l.e\  Pjfti  j:it>graf  All  rl  U  Cirttgrapiif  gvn,  184;  (an  cicelleni  work),  Vol.    Ill, 
du  f'atuan,  p.  15.  p.  317, 


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ICOo*         "In-folk,  avtc  33   carta.     Les  vingt-scpt   premieres  cartes  sont 
,^_______  celles  de  I'cdition  de  1478  [engraved  by  Conrad  Sweynheim  and  Ar- 

nold  Buckinck],  et  les  six  autrcs  ont  etc  nouvellcment  gravces." 

(Labanort'  Catalogue'.) 

The  additions  consist  in  fourteen  leaves  for  the  chap- 
ter devoted  to  the  Noua  orbis  descriptio  together  with  an 
epistle  of  Tosinus,  the  bookseller,  and  the  celebrated 
map  of  Johannes  Ruysch,  which  is  wanting  in  the  edition 
of  1507.  This  map,  which  contains,  as  far  as  known, 
the  first  engraved  delineations  of  the  newly  re-discovered 
countries,  is  a  mappemonde  bearing  the  following  title  : 

VNI-VERSAHOR  COGNITI   ORBIS    TABVLA.    |    EX   RECEN-TI- 

Bvs  coNFECTA  OBSERVATION!-  Bvs.  The  Strip  of  land 
representing  this  country  is  named  therein  Terra  sanc- 
TE  cRvcis'  sivE  MvNDvs  Novv^,  covcring  in  latitude 
from  90  N.  to  38  S. 

The  map  has  been  republished  by  de  Santarem"  and 
Lelewel". 


Dirtct  refertnctl  ; 


PANzm,  Annalet  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  rill,  page  148. 

Reiuel,  Comment,  irituo-liir.  Je  GauJ.  Pio/tm.  Giogr.,  page  51. 

Fabiiicius,  Bihliclktia  Grtria,  Vol.  v,  page  1^5. 

Van   Hbaet,    Catalogue   Jri    livret    Imprimis    tur    f^elin.    Vol.    v, 

No.  3,  describes  a  copy,  the  maps  of'  which  (  34)  are  on  vellum  ; 

also,  GroslierS. 
HuMBOLin,  Examen  Critique,    Vol.    11,   pages   5   and  9,   Vol.    iv, 

pagi-  IZI. 
Mcmairet  de  la  Soticte  Je  Ghgrafhie,  fur  February,  1837,  page  75. 
La  Valliere  Catalogue,  Vol.  in,  No.  4484. 
K.I0SS  Catalogue.  No.  3310. 
Mafoleca  Cohmfiitina,  No.  1 . 
Biblioiheca  Breivonianii. 
Hiltorical  Nuggeti,  No.  1158. 
Ebert,  Dntionary,  No.  18114. 
Bkunet,  Vol.  IV,  col.  954. 
(iKAESlt,  Vol.  V,  page  500. 
Niiei  Off  Columhut,  page  1  70. 


*  Paris,8vo,  18x3,  p.  6,  Not.  18  and  19. 

'  "  La  Decouvcrte  ayant  cte  Kiite  sou* 
les  auspices  de  la  Croix,  el  pour  le  trioinphe 
de  la  Croix,  cette  terre  nouvelle  ctait 
generalement  indiquee  sur  les  cartes  par  le 
signe  et  le  noni  de  la  croii."  Rosilly 
01  Luinuts,  Curiae  fie  Co/omh,  p.  6.  To 
which  we  tay  that  Columbus'  transatlantic 
«uyagei  were  undertaken  for  the  "tri^ 
umph"  of  dealer)  in  ipice  and  groceiiei, 


and  nothing  else  !  This  very  prosaical  view 
of  the  case  is  shared,  we  are  glad  to  see, 
by  the  learned  atid  pious  Benedictines 
themselves.  See  Art  de  verifier  lei  datei, 
third  series,  Vol.  XI,  p.  II,  note. 

"  yitiai  ctmfoie  de  maffemondet  el  de 
iariet  iydrografkijuei  et  kiitorifuei,  defuii 
le  v*  jmjuau  xvii*  liiclei. 

"  Atlas  of  the  Getgrafkit  du  Atuyen- 
Age. 


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Bibliotheca  Americana.  1 1 1 

C7.     RUCHAMER  (J0BST.)—On  a  scroll  encircling  a  globe  :  I  5^^' 

^mt  unlief  ant|e  lanbte 
Unii  ein  %mt  m\W  in 
Ux%  netganget  jetitje  tx- 
fttntien. 

Colophon  on  the  verso  of  the  !e<if  prCicling  the  table  of  contents : 

1I9((fo  i|at  eiit  rnMr  biefed  »ad|leinjl  ivrl-  d|r0  om|^ 
ueOifdier  |)irad|  in  bie  briot|d)en  II  orbradite  bnb  gcmadite 
ift  toorbrn.  burdjllbrn  mirbific  bnb  l)oil|(|rlartl)(ii  dem 
3oti  II  ftrn  9{tt(t|amer  brr  freticn  funflt  bnb  arl^-  II  rnnrirn 
^octorP  &c.  $nb  bnri^  midi  (^eor- 1|  0cn  atad)f|(n  )h 
9hlrrintirrf|t(^(brui(tcllbnb  bolcnbtr  nndi  (^lirijii  bnjerd 
Heben  i)er  II  ren  flrbnrbte.  ^JDl.ccccr.biii.  ^arr  am  WU-  II 
modi  fancH  9latl)rl  bed  iieUiqrn  a^aftalc;  il  abrntl^e  brr  bo 
load  brr  )tort|nt)iQi|)r  taf)r  II  brd  9Ronabtd  Sr^trmbrid.  t 


ei  II  it 
I,  itfuii 


*^*  Folio  for  size,  hut  the  signatures  arc:  one  blank  (for  a  i),  a  ij, 
a  iij,  two  blanks,  cheii  U,  &c'.  Title  one  -\-  sixty-seven  un- 
numbered leaves,  text  in  two  columcs. 

(Private  Libur,,  New  V'ork,  Br(X)kl;'n  and  Providence.) 

We  have  seen  a  copy  of  the  same  date,  which  contains 
on  the  verso  of  the  title,  and  immediately  after  the  pre- 
face, a  curious  woodcut,  representing  a  man,  probably 

*  Angliii :  New  iinknuwn  countries  inJ  Irjrncd   Mr.  Jobstcn  Ruchimer,  doctor  of 

a  new  world  recently  discovered.  arts  and  medicine,  Ate.     And  was  printed 

There  ends  ihii  little  book  which  has  and  linished  by  me,  George  Stuchtien,  at 

been  translated  from  the  Italian  language  Nuirmberg,  A.  1).  I  SoX,  the  Wednesday 

into   German    by    the   most    worthy    and  before  St.  Matthew's  September  koth. 


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1  508*    Ca  da  Mosta,  kneeling  before  a  King  who  is  surrounded 
I    h"  a  retinue  of  armed  men,  some  of  whom  are  mounted 
on  an  elephant. 

The  table  of  contents  is  not  reliable.  The  third  book 
is  therein  called  the  second,  the  fourth  is  taken  for  the 
third.  The  chapters  80-90,  9 i-i 01,  and  105-108,  con- 
tain the  first  three  voyages  of  Columbus.  The  fourth 
voyage  is  not  inserted  at  all.  The  work  presents  a 
remarkable  peculiarity  in  the  spelling  of  names.  Colum- 
bus is  called  Dawber  (male  pigeon),  Alonzo  Niflo,  der 
Schwarlze  (the  black),  Lorenzo  de  Medicis,  Laurentz 
artzt  (L.  the  physician).  As  to  Vespuccius,  the  reader 
will  find  only  the  third  voyage.  Humboldt'  says  that 
"  I'ouvrage  de  Ruchamer,  d'un  style  extremement  naif, 
est  plus  correct  et  beaucoup  mieux  redige  que  /'Idneni- 
rium  PortHgal/ensiufii"  (No.  58).  It  follows,  however, 
verv  closely  the  text  and  arrangement  of  the  Paesi  nuoua- 
mente  retrouati  of  1507,  without  additions  of  any  kind, 
although  it  seems  to  have  been  made  on  the  Iiinerarium. 
This  work  is  not  as  rare  as  the  Italian  and  Latin 
versions  of  Zorzi's  Collection,  and  seems  to  have 
been  reprinted  several  times  in  the  same  year  and  place, 
but  without  any  alterations  in  the  text  or  pagina- 
tion. 


Direct  rtftrtncei . 


Panzir,  Ann^ilei  Tyfng^r.^  and  ^mnaltn  Jtr  alttrtn  dtatKk.  Lit.  Vol. 

I,  (Uge  ly8. 
Mf.usei.,  Bihlhlheca  kiiioriia.  Vol.  in,  pjgc  2ZO. 
Cami'S,  Mtmoire  sur  de  B'\,  pagr  6. 
Ternaux,  No.  I ;. 
KRiLRr,  biitionary.  No.  1 1 686. 
BMUNtT,  \'ol.  V,  col.  1160. 
K.lo,ss  Cat.ilogue,  l^i^e  31S,  No.  449I. 
Kirt^t'l  Catalogue,  No.  908. 
B'hiitjihfcti  Crrn-viHianj,  pagr  765. 

BiHiotheta  Hehcrijnj,  Part  v  11,  No.  4161,  JnJ  Part  Vlll,  No.  3069. 
Bihliatheca  Brownijna,  No.  19. 
Bihliuiheta  Brew.rliunj, 
Bihliaihtca  BdrLivianj,  page  1  5. 
Catalog.  Bihiiolk.  Bunav.,  Vol.  II,  page  45. 


•  Examtn  Criiijut,  Vol.  iv,  pp.  86-88. 


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■*i, 

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,  Ni>.  3069. 


Bibliot/uca   yimericana.  iij 

5  8  .     ZOnZI-MADIllGSASO—Reft*  0/  the  firit  U*f: 

^ttnrrartu  }lartttflttUf0tn 
(  |tt|)tama  in  Jnlita  t  in  ii 
)»e  in  acdbrnkm  t  'btmvm 
a^  afjnilonrmji 

Then  a  large  map  of  Africa  filling  ihe  re»t  of  the  page. 
Recto  of  the  iectnJ  'eaf: 

ITINRRARIVM  Portugallenfium  ex  Vlif- 
bona  T  Iticliam  nee !!  non  in  Occidentem 
ac  Setemptrione :  ex  Vernaculo  fermone 
in  II  latinum  traduclum.  Interprete  Arch- 
angelo  Madrignano  Medio  ||  lanenfe  Mo- 
nacho  Careuallenii.* 

First  rectt  tf  signature  B  : 

Mediolani  Kalendis  luniis.  M.ccccc.viii. 

In  fine  : 

Operi  fuprcma  manus  impofita  eft  ka- 
lendis quintilibus.  Ludouico  galillia^  rege 
huius  urbis  iclite  Iceptra  regete.  lulio 
fecudo  potilice  maxi-  v.  ma  orthodoxa  fide 

*  Anglici  :   A  Portuguese  ilinrttn  frrjm  to  '.he  Wot  and  10  the  North,  enaiMbleil 

Portugal  to  India,  and  tVom  thence  ( >  the  from  ibe   *cnucui«f  Language  into  Latin, 

Wcit,  an  I   !a<tly  to  the   Ns.th        Pjrc  br   Archaa;el%i   Madn^nann  of  Milan,  ui 

gueie  itinerary  trom  Lisbon  to  the  In^in,  tJte  br4<T  of  the  Camralenaei  (  '  ;. 

>5 


1508. 


i 


1 1 4  Bibliotheca  yfmericana. 

1508.  fcliciter     moderate  :     anno     nfae     falutis 
.M.D.VIII.f 

*^*  Folio,  signatures  in  sixes  and  eights.  Title  1,  then  an  index 
of  two  unnumbered  leaves,  the  first  of  which  is  marked  aa; 
then  from  A  ii  to  B  (exclusive  of  B),  seven  unnumbered  leaves ; 
then  text  in  eighty-eight  numbered  leaves,  the  last  through 
mistake  being  marked  i.xxviii.  The  last  signature  is  N  iii, 
followed  by  three  unnumbered  leaves. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  Vork,  Providence,  Waihington 
city,  and  Harv.  Coll.  Libr.) 

Camus'  and  Ebert*  say  that  there  should  be  eleven 
preliminary  leaves.  More  than  ten  copies,  including 
the  one  in  the  Dresden  Library  from  which  Ebert  made 
his  transcript,  have  been  examined  by  a  distinguished 
bibliophile  of  this  city  with  the  view  of  testing  the  asser- 
tion of  the  learned  and  unfortunate  Dresden  bibliog- 
rapher, l)ut  in  no  instance  could  he  find  more  than  «/'«?, 
or  ten  leaves  with  the  title-page.  It  should  be  noticed, 
however,  that  the  poetry  on  the  verso  of  the  last  unnum- 
bered  leaf  seems  to  end  abruptly,  although  the  signature 
is  complete. 

As  to  the  index  it  is  said  to  be  rarely  found,  either 
at  the  beginning  or  end  of  the  volume;  yet  all  the  copies 
which  we  have  examined  in  this  country  (six)  have  it. 

In  the  Musee  des  Souvemins,  at  the  Louvre,  there  is  a 
splendid  cony  printed  on  vellum,  and  bearing  the  arms 
or  cipher  of  Henry  IP,  interlaced  with  that  of  the  beau- 
tiful Diane  de  Poitiers. 

The  present  is  a  Latin  translation  of  the  collection  of 
voyages  ascribed  to  Zor/i  (No.  48),  by  a  Milanese  monk 
called  Madrignano.  It  contains  the  navigations  of  Ca 
da  Mosto  (cap.  i-8j),  three  of  Columbus  (cap.  84-108), 
Alonzo  the  Black's  (cap.  109-1  ii),  Pinzon's  (cap.  112- 


t  Angl.:  Milan,  Kalends  ofjune,  l?o8.  '  Memcirti  lur  Je  Bry,  p.  34a. 

The  work  was  tinishej  July  i  jt,  under  the  '  Dudoita'-y,  No.  10637. 

Illustrious  reign  ol"  Lewis,  King  of"  Krance,  '  Van    Phait,   Culahgue  Hei  tivrtt  im- 

and   under    the    Pupr  Juliua    II,    ihr    »i>e  frimii    lur    ttlin     Jt    la    Bili!:Mhijut    Ju 

preserver  o»"  the  Orthodox   faith,  the   year  Rti  (Paris,  Xvo,  lXll-8)i  Vol.  V,  p.  150, 

of  our  Salvation  I  $08.  No.  171. 


4 


:ith 


eitner 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  nr 

iij);   Vespuccius'  third  voyage   (cap.    1 14-124);   the    i  coS 

ter?  .1  ^'  ""'"^p^'-^"^  '^«'  ^°  ^«P   H2) ;  and  several  let- 
ters relating  to  Portuguese  voyages. 

fair'l^!  "'J««^'i'>n  dc  la  traduction  latine  dc  Madrigano  a  d'ailleurs  etc 
I  d-i„H       -";  "^""^  negligence.     Dc  la  division  en  six  liJ  es  "n'v 

t  7      n'in  1r'   ^''•''''^  ''""^  1^  '^"^'•^""'^  «='  '"^  '--^•'"^  aux  chap.  4^ 
e    71.  non  Ic  quatrieme  ct  le  cinquicmc.     Le   chapitrc    11.    traire 

dont  on  donne  le  voyage  rcsterait  inconnu."  nav.gaieur 

(Humboldt*.) 

Dirm  uf,r,na,  .-J  Fo,ca.,n,,  D.lla  L„Ur.  Fe.e^Una,  Vol.  ,,  page  4,^  no.. 
■    B,b  o,k,ca  Tkoniana,  Vol.  v„,  pafc-e  ,07.     ^^    ^^^      "' 
Bibhotktca  (Srenx'iljiana,  pjgc  765. 
Bii/hliecu  Hebtriana,  J'art   11,  No.  3080. 
Pan2«,,  ^,„tf/,,  Typogr.,  Vol.  VIII,  page  iSc. 
1..A.0.CH,    .y»r,„  ^,//^  /.,„,,.  /,^/     Vol.  v„i,  page  ,M 

BibliQthtia  Brotvniana,  No.  18. 
Bibliothtca  Barlowiana,  pane  1 1 
Rich,  No.  1.  r  6       j 

Tehnai'x,  No.  13. 
B«UN».T,  Vol.  Ill,  col.  474. 
URAEssr,  Vol.  Ill,  p.ige  ,^3^. 

Klos,  Catalogue,  pagci58,  No.  1,87,  aicribes  the  printing  of  the 
present  to  Gotardo  de  Ponte.  * 


59.  5^z?Av.L/cw>  (MAKK.ANT.)-^^  Rhapfodijc  Hiftoria- 
rum  Enneadum  Marc  Antoninf  Cocci.  Sabell.c.  ab 
orbe  condito ;  pars  prima  complectens  quinque  En- 
neades  {Jaljb,  nam  complectitur  tantUm  quatuorl  ^^-cunda 
tres,  tertia  quatuor.  ;  ufque  ad  annum  1504;  pr^miHls 
earundem  repcrtoriis  auctis  &  recognitis  ab  A.scens.o 
cum  authons  Epitomis:  Vanundaniur  in  Parrhifiorum 
Acadmiaab]on.,^^^  P.kvo  ^  ipjo,  c^ui  i^npreffu,  Ascbn- 
sio.  fol.  Panf.  1509." 

(Maittaui'.) 

"  Rccusa  haec  edirio  four  No     21 1   P.,ri,    i„       jl 
1S09.  1  Voll.  f.  ibid.  ,5'i3.  3  Voll.  1-."  '"^'^"^  Asccnsiani, 
'_ (Miuitt'.) 


*  Examen  Criiifut,  Vol.  iv,  p.  85 
Ann„J„  T,f.,  Vol.  u.  Part  I,  p.  198. 


1509. 


p.  jeft'!"*'"  ''""'"''•  ^°'-  ''  P«"  '. 


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15091  60.     t'ESPUCClUS   V    HrL/ico\tri.US— Recto  of  tbt fint  Itaf : 

(Caj^majrap W^  intra  11  tibctio :  cum  pitur^ 

nam  (Scomp-  ||trip  ac  Efttonomi^  prinrillpiis  ati  earn 
rrm  II  nrrrffatiiis.  II  Jnfuprr  quattuot  ^mrtiri  Br  II 
fpurii  nauigationr^.  II  Oniurrfalis.  Otofmograptif 
brfrriptiojitam  in  folitio  ^  piano,  tisi  rtiam  II  infertis 
quf  i9t1)oIomro  ||  ignota,  a  nupctiis  II  rrperta  funt.  || 
Cum  trruis  aftta  rrgat,  et  terrp  rlimata  (fTffat;  II  Jjlec 
trllust,  nee  ciis  fstieta  maiujs  fiatent  || 

Colophon : 

%xtmi  ^U  J^vgent0va/ 11  cos  tocopuis 

Jngcniofus  bit  .Joannes  II  gtanigrr.  ^nno  poft 
natit  fal- jl  uatote  fupta  fcfquimil- 1|  lefimfl  jllono.  || 
.lioanne    ^TicIp1)o   |BuIic1)0  Hrgrntincft  caftiga:: 

tore.  II* 


«  « 


Sm.  4to,  thirty-two  unnumbered  leaves,  diagrams,  description 
on  the  back  of  the  mappemondc,  so  called,  in  fourteen  lines, 
and  black  letter.  (There  is  an  issue  of  the  same  date  with  the 
said  description  in  fifteen  lines.  In  the  May  and  September 
editions  of  1507  it  is  in  Roman  characters). 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York,  Pruvidence,  Waihingtun 
city,  and  Harvard  Cull.  Libr.) 


See  the  recto  of  cij,  and  the  verso  of  ciiij. 

It  is  the  text  of  the  present  edition  which  has  been 
published  by  Navarrete',  with  notes  and  a  translation 
into  Spanish.  We  quote  the  above  on  pages  59-60, 
under  the  name  of  Griiniger. 


*  /Ing/id :  The  ingenious   man,    John     the   corrector  John   Adolphus  Mulich  ut' 
Griinigrr,  printed  this  work   at  Stra»Durg,     Strasb>irg. 
in  the  year  ut'  our  lalvatiun  1509,  under         The  reit  at  in  No.  44. 


I  1 

.11 


Diritt  ri/irimiii 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 

PiNlLo-BAiriA,  Epilomi,  col.  574. 

Pamiii,  Anna/n  Tyfngr.,  Vul.  vi,  page  44. 
'  Colnikn,  Vul.  in,  p4gr  l)i■^,  .,nd  190,  ly. 

Biklittiita  Thotiiaiia,  Vul.  vii,  pajje  119. 
Bik!itike,a  (Irenvilliana,  pagt  765. 
Bihliuikua  Htktnana,  Hjrt  111,  No.  4988. 
Bikliciktta  Bruivnijna,  Nu.  10. 
Biklhlkna  Bar/owiana,  p.igr  11, 
Hi'.loruj/  Xuggett,  No.  1746. 
HiMloLDT,  Ex,imen  Ciiii,,ut,  Vul,  iv,  page  101 
TcisAux,  Nil.  14, 

filUNIT,   Vol.   II,  tol.    Jly. 

GiAttsi,  Vul.  II,  pa^e  »8i. 


07 


1509. 


61.  ^7vo;v>,/o,Av_^lalrtt]9!   mUttdi  ll  20rr(ara= 
tio  fiuf  l)cfrnptio  munniilet  tothis  ortjis  tmarum 
globulo  rotunDo  romparati  bt  fprra  foU  II  tia.  (Qua 
culuis  ftia  mrUiorritrr  Horto  ati  orulii  blTirrr  Km 
i  an  II  tipolir»  rffe,  quo?  prtiCB  noftris  oppofiti  funt 

iSt  Qualiter  in  bna- 1|  quaq; :  ori)(»  pane  i)ominr!8 
bitam  agere  qurunt  lalutarc,  folc  finllgula  tern 
loca  illuftrantr:  m  tamcn  terra  in  baruo  acre  pm- 
Here  II  bilictur :  folo  nri  nutu  iwmxm,  aliis  (p ;  per- 
muItiB  Jic  quarta  orbis  II  tcrrartt  parte  nuper  ab 
amcrieorcperta.ll 

laiJ'Jown"""*^'"'  representing  a  globe,  in  which  the  New  World  i. 

In  fine : 

.  ...  Oalete  felieiter  et  II  argentina    bltima 
augufti.  anno  poft  natfi   faditatorf.  m.  2D  \:X 
3oanne»  griniaer  impri  II  mebat.  airelpbo  eaftiaa- 

tore.  II*  " 


♦.,*»jf/;V/;  The  World's  globe.      lixpo-  can  .^^  wUI,    I,! 

•ition  or  de..,ip,iun  of  ,hc   world    a„d   o.  !„  I,     f           ,          "*"  '^'"  '''*'  '''"'  •"« 

.he,,rre.,ul,pherccu„=c,uc*da*a     1j  a„    'i:    "'   *'"'"    '"'    ^^"^    "Pf'-i"-   •■»"  i 

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*^*  Sm.  410  (signal.  C  in  sixes),  fourteen  unnumbered  leaves. 

(Harvard  Coll.  Library.) 

•'  C'est  dans  cette  brochure  tres  rare  aujourd'hui  que  j'ai  trouve 
employee  pour  la  premiere  fois  la  denomination  d'Amerique  pour 
designer  le  Nouveau  Monde,  d'apres  le  conseil  donne  par  Hylacomylus 
en  1 507.  L'auteur  anonyme,  que  Panzer'  a  cru  par  erreur  etre  Hen- 
ricus  Loritus  Glareanus  [see  infra^  ne  nomme  le  navigateur  florentin 
que  sur  le  titre  de  I'ouvrage  et  sans  faire  aucune  mention  de  Colomb." 

(Humboldt*.) 


Direct  referencei  t 


'  V AnzzK,  AnnaUs  Typogr.,  \ol.  vi,  page  44;  mentions  also  on 
page  iz8,  of  the  same  vol.,  an  edition  sine  anno, 
Bibliotheca  Thottiana,  Vol.  v,  page  219. 
Bibliotheca  Grenvilliana,  page  481. 
*  Examen   Critique,  Vol.  vi,  page   141,  and  introduction  to  Ghil- 
lany's  Behaim,  page  8,  note. 
Historical  Nuggets,  No.  1 252. 
Gkaesse,  Vol.  Ill,  page  94. 


6  2 .     VESPVCCIUS  [AMERICUS  —Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

n\^  li Wn  faget  taie 

Hit  jIUIk  "  ^.  jii  eafmieull  bttb  §err  gmotittel. 
^.  3u.  ^ortupt  fallen  H^  )oel}te  II  mor  er|tt(I)ct  unnb 
fttitbeu  tii(  ^nfttlen  unnb  ein  Sleutoe  ||  toelt  bon  mUben 
ttailenben  ^tUtn'  bormals  bttHefant.  || 

Then  woodcut  representing  two  kings  receiving  two  men  landing 
from  a  vessel,  at  the  top  of  the  picture  :  LISBONA. 

Colophon  : 

©ebruitt  $u  ^trafflittrg  bitrdj  ^o^nt  ©ruitiger  II  ^tt 
iar.  Da.ccccr.  ij*  bff  Setare,  mt  bie  abtx  blje  II  fugel  bit 
befi^reibung  ber  gatt^enn  toelt  berften  \o\W  II  tourjit  bie 
Hentadj  finben  unnb  (efen.  \\* 

seems  to  be  suspendeil  in  the  airy  vacuum,  on  the  last  of  August,  A.  O.  1 509,  printed 

supported   only   by   God's   will  j    together  by  John  Griiniger  and  correc'ed  by  Adol- 

with   many  other  things    concerning  the  phus  (  ? ). 

fourth   part  of  the  earth  recently  discov-         *  jinglici :  This  little  book  relates  how 

ered  by  Americus.     Farewell,  Strasl>urg,  the  two  most  illustrious  Lords,  Frrdinand, 


*  * 


Bihliotheca  Americana. 


1x9 


4to.  (signal.  B  and   C  in  sixes);   thirty-two  leaves      Large     T  rnn 
woodcuts  on  verso  of  Bi,  recto  of  Diiii.^..r,°  'f  p'  i:  ,rf  !r     '  ^OQ 


page.'  ^  "  repetition  of  the  vignette  on  the  title- 

(Private  Library,  New  York,  and  British  Museum.) 

German    translation  of  the  four  vovaees  of  Ve^n,,- 

63.    ^£5PC^CC/ro-//ri^C0AfrzW-/J^./.  of  the  first  leaf: 

COSMOGRAPHIAE  INTRODVCTIOIICVM  OVIRVsnA^^ 
EAMDEMNECESSARIIS.il  ^RINCIPIIS  ||  AD 

Infuper  quatuor  Americi  Vespuccii  II 
nauigationes.  Vniuerfalis  Chofmographi^ 
defcnptio  II  tam  in  folido  qplano,  ei?  etiam 
mfertis  qu^  Ptholomaeo  ||  ignota  a  nuperisH 
reperta  funt.||  ^       " 

Then   eight   lines    of  verse 
Kobertetvm." 


addressed    to    "Dominvm    Jacob 


vm 


Cokpb, 


on . 


Explicit  fehciter  cofmographi^  uniuer- 
fahs  defcnptio  II  cu  quattuor  Americi  uef- 
pucii  nauigatioibus  uigi,  ||  lantiffime  Im- 
prefla  per  lohanem  de  la  Place.  ||  Vt 
mendula  quide  fuperit.  ||*      Finis  || 


nee 


Kmg  of  Castile,  and  Emanuel,  King  of 
Portugal  have  searched  througi;  the  vast 
seas,  and  discovered  many  ialands,  and  a 
new  world  of  naked  savages,  hitherto  un- 

Printed  at  Strasburg  by  John  Gruniger, 
•n  the  year  ,509,  on  Litare.     But  how 


you  shall  understand  the  globe  and  the 
descr,pt,on  of  the  whole  world,  that  you 
wiU  hereafter  find  out  and  read. 

Anglki :  The  description  of  universal 
cosmography,  happily  explained,  together 
with  the  tour  navigations  of  .4mericui 
Vespucius,  most  elegantly  printed  by  John 


I5IO. 


■i^" 


lao 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


1510.        *^*  Sm.  4to,  title, //»(f  anno  aut  loco;  title  one  +  thirty-two  un- 
s^s^=^_  numbered  leaves;  text  in  Roman;  two  simple  diagrams. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

"  Cette  edition,  tres-peu  connue,  a  du'  etre  imprimee  a  Lyon,  ou 
Jean  de  la  Place  exercait  des  I'annee  15 10." 

(See  the  recto  of  D  iij  for  the  passage  relating  to 
America.) 


Dirtct  reftrences:  ("  Meusel,  Bibliotheca  Historica,  Vol.  ill,  page  265. 
Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Vol.  VII,  No.  6409  ( ?). 
Bibliotheca  Grenvilliana,  page  765, 
Bibliotheca  Barhwiana,  page  14. 
'  Brunit,  Vol.  II,  col.  318. 
Graesse,  Vol.  II,  page  28 1. 


Ozj..  ALBKRTWI  {FRANC.  DE)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf,  within  an 

ornameK  '.il  fronfispiece : 

OPVSCVLVM  DE  MIRABI-  ||  libus 
Nou;£  &  ueteris  Vrbis  Romae  edi-  ||  turn  a 
Fracifco  de  Albertinis  Clerico  Flore  ||  tino 
dedicatumcp  lulio  fecundo  Pon.  Max.* 

Then  an  epigram  in  eight  lines,  addressed  to  Andrew  Fulvius,  the 
versifying  antiquarian;  followed  by  "  CVM  PRIVILEGIO." 

Colophon : 

ImprefTum  Romae  per  lacobum  Mazo- 
chium  II  Romanae  Academiae  Bibliopolam 
qui  in-  ||  fra  paucos  dies  epythaphio^  opuf- 
culu  II  in  luce  ponet  afio  Salutis.  M.D.X. 
Die.  iiii.  Febr.  II 


de  la   Place,  so  that   not  even   the  least  the  wonderful  things  of  the  new  as  well 

mistake  can  be  found.  as  of  the  old  city  of  Rome,  edited  by  Fran- 

The  rest  ot  the  title  as  in  No.  44.  cis  de  Albertini.  a  Florentine  clergyman ; 

*  AngUc'e:    A   little    work   concerning  dedicated  to  Pope  Julius  II. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  121 

V  Sm.  4to,  title  one  +  one  hundred  and  two  unnumbered  leaves. 
.  (Private  Library,  New  York.) 

"  Editio  prima." 

(Panzer'.) 

U  !^!?T'^^°/^t"r''"''  ^°"'  I'ouvrage  curieux  a  paru  deux  ans  apres 
INegri  IS  authentic],  ne  connait  aussi  que  les  decouvertes  de  Vespuce." 
.   -  (Humboldt'.) 

After  speaking  of  the  Antiquities  of  Rome  in  a  man- 
ner which  stamps  him  as  the  first  archsologist  of  his 
times,  he  speaks  "D.  r^oua  Frbe,"  and  by  a  slight  di' 
gress^n  ends  the  book  with  a  section  De  laudiL  ciuL 
tata  Florentine  et  Sauoensts,  ,n  which,  after  enumerating 
the  tanious  orators,  writers,  painters  and  others  of  Flo- 
rence, he  thus  speaks  of  Vespuccius  : 
Recto  of  leaf  \oi  : 

"  .  .  .  .  .  na  inllnouo  mundo  Albericus 
Vefpulcius  [sic)  Flo.  miffus  a  fi  Udeliffimo 
Rege  Portugal.  Poftremo  uero  a  Catholill 
CO  Hy  paniaru  Rege  primus  adiuenit  nouas 
inlu/lllas&loca  incognita:  ut  in  eius  li- 
bello  Graphice  ap.||paret  in  Epiftola  eius 
de  nouo  mundo  ad  Lauren  ||  tium  luniorem 
de  medicis."f 


Direct  references ; 


'  cCZlThUrl"  '^^f^'-'  '^'''-  ^'  P""  '  (!"<)«).  page   18. 
I    W^'^^^^^BMwtheque  Curieuse.  Vol.  i,  page  120 

Mazzucheu..,  GliuriuoricC Italia,  Vol.  ,,  LgeM,  ^^• 

Bandini,  Vita,  page  lii.  '  ^^    ^ 

Napione,  Ragionamemo,  page  loi,  note. 

BMiothtca  Thottiana,  Vol.  vn,  page  222. 

Bibliotheca  Barlowiana,—. 

Brunet,  Vol.  I,  col.  135.' 

Graesse,  Vol.  r,  page  53. 


vetpS;;  i?  Sen:;  .^ !^  Tiz  tr^' '''  "^r r  '^^ "-  ''-^'.  - 

Christian   King  of  Por  ugal,  but  lastirbv     wo    d     "/."    '".*"'  l"'"   "P°"   ""=   "«=>- 
the  Catholic  King  of  Spai'n.  first  diSred'     ZLr'  ""'  '°  ^°""^°   ""^  ^*'='""». 

new  islands  and  unknown  countries,  as  is         '  J»»^/„   v  1 

graphically  set  forth  in  his  book,  where  h^         »  eZH:; ^li;:;'^!^':;^^^^  „., 

16 


I5IO. 


122  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

^5'0*      65.  ;if^FF£/»/j'o£r£/j«^-<«Commentariorum  urban- 
orum  Libri  xxxvin.   Paris.  15 10.  f." 

(Mevsel'.) 


I5II. 


66.   MARTYR  (PETER)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

p.  |Kartt)m  aitgU 
^)»t0ramm(tt(i 

Colophon  } 

H  ^mpreffum  l^ifpali  cu  fumma  triligencia  per 
Jacobfl  corum  ||  terger  alemanfi.  Enno.  imiUeffi= 
tno  quittgentemmo,  xj.  mSfc  bero  II  aprili.f 


'  Bibliotheca  Historica,  Vol.  i,  Part  i, 
page  28 1. 

*  The  translation  into  Spanish  of  Ber- 
gomas'  Chronicle,  by  Narcis  Vifloles,  the 
Valencian  poet  (Summa  de  todas  las  cronicas 
del  mundo,  Valencia,  folio,  1510),  although 
carrying  the  annals  as  late  as  the  war  of 
Naples,  full  ten  years  after  the  first  voyage 
of  Columbus,  does  not  contain  the  chapter 
relating  to  America,  and  which  imparts  ; 


certain  importance  to  the  editions  of  Ber- 
gomas  published  in  Latin  and  Italian  after 

f  Anglici :  The  works  of  Peter  Martyr 
Anglerius  of  Milan.  The  Embassy  to 
Babylon,  the  Decade  of  the  Ocean; 
poems,  epigrams.     With  privilege. 

Printed  at  Seville  with  the  greatest  care 
by  James  Corumberger,  a  German,  in  the 
year  1511,  in  the  month  of  April. 


V"*-!***"    vivmiiwpi^i 


urban- 


*  * 
* 


ItfSU 


!  of  Bsr- 
an  after 

■  Martyr 
bassy  to 
Ocean  j 

test  care 
,  in  the 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  123 

Folio    seventy-four  unnumbered  leaves,  text  in  Gothic  type 
pr  nted  .n  two  columns       The  decade  commences  on  sgL-' 

(Private  Library,  Providence.) 

Pietro  Martire  d'Anghiera  is  almost  always  called  Peter 
Martyr,  for  which  he  must  stand  responsible  as  hf  was 
the  first  to  set  the  example",  while  his^  epitaph  bears  no 
other  name.     We  call  ^our  author  PeterXtyr  as  h 

hat'VJTdenT';A°''^"°'"^.'''"'  ^"^  ^  ^^'^^^^^^ 
QuotatLff  f^'"'"''^'^'''°^y  ^i"  "Mistake  our 
quotations  for  references  to  Peter  Martyr  Festus  Peter 

Martyr  Tronus,  Peter  Martyr  Vermilli^r  StVr4e 
Armenian  who  acquired  so  much  reputa  ion  as  a  traveler 
towards  the  close  of  the  fifteenth  ceLury^     ?he  presen 
Peter  Martyr  was  born  in  1455  (NiceJon^\    or  in  f.. 
& 'Hf  ^'1  at  Arona,^iV  thfuL^^f  Ltg 

£5u^p^S;:arii^.-[s.--^^ 

Pomponius  Laetus^to  both  of  whom  many  of  his  Tetters 


p  .  L  .'■"''"  "^^^  "  familiar  with 
Peter  Martyrs  sportive  style,  it  is  evident 
that  the  remark  «<Italus  quidam  Mar^r 
nomme  ad  Cunam  se  nuper  contulit,"  &c 

fotLir''-'"'^'"""''- '=''-)•'•'?'-■ 

'   HERVM   AETATB    NOSTRA    OESTARVM 

FT    NOVI   ORBIS   IGNOTI    HACTENVS 

ILLVSTRATORI    PETRO    MARTYR,  MEDIOLANM 

CAESAR  EO    SENATORI 

ttyi  PATRIA  RELICTA 

BELLO   GRANATENSI    MILES    INTBREVIT 

MOX    VRBE   CAPTA    FR,MVM    CANONICO 

DEINDE    PRIORI    HVIVS    ECCLESIAE 

DECANVS    ET    CAPITVI.VM 

CABISSIMO    COLLEGAE    POSVERE    SEPVLCHRVM 

ANNO    MDXXVI, 

"  posta  nel  Duo„o  di  Granata,  e  riferita  dal 
Maz^ucMl,:-  (Cancellieki,  Dmcrta- 
"I'll,  p.  2ia,  note.) 


11  y  a  eu  quatre  s^avans  hommes  qui 
ont  porte  le  nom  de  Pierre  Martyr.  Scavoir 
Pierre  Martyr  dit  ^»^/^r/„„/ de  MilaT 
qu.  a  fait  les  Decades  du  nouveau  Monde' 
fierre  Martyr  Festus  d'Urce  ville  d'Es- 
pagne,  qui  a  public  Summarium  Conuituth- 
rmm  pro  rcgimwi  Ordinh  Pradicatorum 
Pierre  Martyr  Tronus  de  Novarre  en  Ital^' 

Z    ""'"';'*«'  '"/""'.     Et  Pierre   Martyr 
Vermil,  dont  M.  de  Thou  a  fait  rEfoge." 

^r.Tp\o^r '" """""'  *—' 

ho«ma  ,llu.,rcs  dam larip.  dc.Uurc,.  Paris. 

'  BibUoteca  Americana   (MS.\  Vol     i 
p.  48.  ''  ' 


I5II. 


■ig  .WMi 


124 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


I  CI  I.  are  addressed.  He  repaired  to  Spain  with  Count  Ten- 
__«_s___,  dilla  in  1487,  joined  the  Spanish  army  in  the  war  against 
the  Moors  in  1488,  was  ordained  a  priest  in  1494,  and 
was  appointed  during  the  same  year  tutor  to  the  chil- 
dren of  Ferdinand  and  Isabella,  or  only  preceptor  of 
the  royal  pages.  Peter  Martyr  was  intrusted  in  1501 
with  a  diplomatic  mission  to  the  Sultan  of  Egypt,  which 
is  related  in  his  Legatio  babylonica  (/'.  e.  Cairo).  As  a 
reward  for  his  having  dedicated  this  work  to  Pope 
Leo  X,  he  was  appointed  Apostolical  Prothonotary 
(one  of  the  twelve  members  of  a  college  intrusted  with 
the  custody  of  the  last  wills  of  cardinals,  and  with  the 
proceedings  for  the  canonization  of  saints)  ;  and  in 
1505  obtained  the  much-coveted  office  of  Dean  of  the 
chapter  of  the  Cathedral  of  Granada.  He  died  in  that 
city  after  August  1525,  or  in  1526  [Alcedo).  The  friend 
or  contemporary  of  Columbus,  Vasco  da  Gama,  Cortes, 
Magellan,  Cabot  and  Vespuccius,  a  member  of  the 
Council  of  the  Indies,  he  was  enabled  to  obtain  valuable 
information  in  regard  to  the  great  Oceanic  discoveries, 
the  substance  of  which,  with  some  additions  of  his  own, 
is  embodied  in  his  Decades  or  "  Oceanics." 

There  is  an  impression  among  Italian  bibliographers, 
based  probably  upon  the  assertion  of  Caballero^  or  a 
mistake  in  the  Bibliotheca  Vilenbroukiand'  (afterwards 
corrected  in  the  index),  that  the  first  Decade  was  pub- 
lished at  Seville  as  early  as  the  year  1500.  Panzer'  and 
Hain'°  repeat  this  assertion,  but  Mazzuchelli",  with  his 
usual  acuteness,  exhibits  the  fallacy  of  the  statement. 
The  earliest  edition  known  is  the  above,  which,  if  Bru- 
nei's description  is  correct,  must  have  been  printed  twice 
in  the  same  year  and  place,  as  Brunet's  title,  which  dif- 
fers from  ours,  was  likewise  taken  from  an  original  which 
he  had  "  sous  les  yeux." 

Leon  Pinelo"  asserts  that  all  the  Decades  of  Peter 


'  De  prima  Tyfogr.  Hisp.  (Rome  1793, 
4to),  p.  8c. 

'  Vol.  II,  No.  1 181. 
•  Annatii  Typogr.,  Vol    IV,  p.  339. 
"  Repertsrium,  No.  10863. 


"  G/i  Scrittori  cl^ Italia,  cioe  nolizie  ito- 
ricke  e  critic  he  ^  iJrescia,  fol,,  1753-63, 
Vol.  I,  Part  2,  pp.  773-7. 

"  Epitome,   p.   68 ;  and   Barcia'a  edit. 
Vol.  1,  col.  579. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


125 


Martyr  were  printed   in   151 1,  which   is  evidently   an    I  ^11, 
error.     The  present  edition  contains  only  the  first  de-  -ssaBs-as 
cade,  which  was  republished,  together  with  the  second 
and  third,  at  Alcala  in  1516  {infra).     This  collection  of 
three  decades  was  again  printed  separately  at  Basle,  folio, 
1 533  {infra),  and  at  Cologne,  8vo,  in  1 574'^ 

The  entire  eight  decades  were  not  published  until 
1530,  folio,  Alcala  de  Henarez  {infra).  Ternaux'*, 
Brunet  and  Graesse  mention  a  Paris  folio  edition  of 
1^36,  while  Pinelo-Barcia,  with  his  usual  inaccuracy,  adds 
to  the  list  of  imaginary  editions,  one  of  1540,  and  an- 
other of  1557.  The  Paris  edition  by  Hakluyt"  is,  as  we 
have  since  ascertained,  erroneously  considered  the  best. 

Extracts  from  the  fourth  Decade,  known  as  de  in- 
sulis  niiper  repertis  liber,  were  published  in  Latin  at 
Basle  in  1521  {infra),  in  all  the  editions  and  transla- 
tions of  the  Novus  orbis^^ ;  in  French  by  Simon  de 
Colines  in  1532  (infra),  and  added  to  the  Antwerp 
edition  of  Brocard's  Description  of  the  Holy-Land 
(1537,  infra).  The  German  translation  mentioned  by 
Graesse''  contains  the  first  three  decades  and  the  ex- 
tracts from  the  fourth.  An  abridgement  in  Italian'* 
was  printed  under  the  title  of  Sommario,  in  1534  {infra). 
We  have  the  authority  of  Leon  Pinelo''  for  the  asser- 
tion, repeated  by  Antonio',  that  a  descendant  of  Peter 
Martyr  translated  the  Decade  into  Spanish,  but  it  is 
doubtful  whether  this  translation  ever  was  printed.  As 
to  the  English  versions",  they  are  well  known. 


"  De  Rebus  Oceania's,  et  Novo  Orbe, 
decades  tres.  Sec,  24  prel.  11.,  683  pp. 

'•  Bibliotiejue  Amiricaine,  No.  47,  bis. 

"  De  orbe  novo.  Sec,  Paris,  8vo,  1587, 
8  prel.  11.,  605  pp.,  12  unnumb.  11.,  map. 
See  Bu//et.  Soc.  Geogr.  Oct.  1858,  p.  271. 

"  Peter  Martyr  de  insutis  nuper  reper- 
tis liber.  No.  17,  pp.  570-584  of  the  Basle 
edit,  of  1532. 

"  Petrus  Martyr  von  Meylandt  .... 
Verteutschet  durch  Nic.  Hiniger  von  Ko- 
nigshofen.  Basle,  fol.,  1582;  in  the  Trisor, 
Vol.  I,  p.  130. 

"  If  we  may  judge  from  the  title,  the 


Relation!  del  S.  Pietro  Martire  Milanese, 
Venice,  8vo,  1564,  is  only  a  translation  of 
the  Legatio  babylonica,  and  therefore  be- 
longs only  to  the  Bibliotheque  Asiatique. 

"  "  Ivan  Pablo  Martir  Riro,  des- 
ccndiente  de  don  Pedro  Martir,  conocedo 
cuesta  Corte,  por  las  obras  que  ha  impresso, 
tiene  traduzidas  las  Decadas  de  su  bisabuelo 
en  Castellano,  para  dar  a  la  estampa," 
Epitome,  p.  69. 

"  The  Decades  of  the  New  fforlde  .  .  . 
translatedinto  Engtyssche  by  Rycharde  Eden,  j 
London,  4to,  1555,  24  prel.  II.,  361  11.; 
and  13,  contains  the  first  three  Decades, 


■% 


-■*v  -^*"'iiiiiny 


1511. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


126 

Peter   Martyr  seems   to  have  written   other  works 
which  were  printed.    Pinelo-Barcia",  mentions  a  History 
of  the  Palestinians,  Tyrians  and  Sidonians  ;   and  An- 
tonio,  a  Synopsis  of  Pliny's  Historia  naturalis. 

Dirtcl  r,fi„mn:  (  Pan^ek,  Annate,  Typogr.,  Vol.  vu,  page  110 
->   MoRiLLi,  Ofcrelte,  Vol.  i,  page  191. 
TuNAUX,  No.  16. 

Bibiiotheca  Thottiana,  Vol.  vu,  page  95. 
Bibliotheca  Hebtriana,  Part  vi,  No.  214. 
Bibliotheca  Browniana,  No.  21. 
Brunet,  Vol.  I,  col.  291. 
Graessi,  Vol.  I,  page  129, 


67.  MAWFEi  OF  ^oir£^/j^_"  Commentariorum  urban- 
orum  RAPHAELis  POLATERRANi  [stc)  octo  &  tringinta 
libri  ....  Venundantur  Parrhifiis  in  via  lacobea 
Joanne  paruo  &  lodoco  Badio  Afcenfio,  ad  kalendas 
lulias  anno  falutis  noftre  151 1.  in-fol.  folior.  414.  fi 
duplicem  indicem." 

(Freytac'.) 


68.  PTOLEMT-SYLVANUS-Recto  of  the  first  leaf,  printed  in  red: 

CLAVDII  PTHOLEMAEI  ALEXANDRINI 
LIIIBER  GEOGRAPHIAE  CVM  TABVLIS 
ET  II  VNIVERSALI  FIGVRA  ET  CVM  AD  H 
DITIO  NE  LOCORVM  OVA  ||  EA  RECENT! 
ORIBVS  REPER  ||  TA  SVNT^''  DILIGENtVn 
CVRA  EMENDA  ||  TVS  ET  IM  ||  PRESSVS  ||      " 


and  extracts  from  the  last  five.  The  Hii- 
tory  of  Travayle  in  the  fFest  and  East 
Indies,  .  .  by  Eden ;  netuly  set  in  order, 
augmented,  &c.,  by  Richard  fVilles ;  Lon- 
don, 4to,  I577J  loprel.  11.,  466  11.,  4  II.; 
contains  the  first  four  Decades,  and  an 
abridgment  of  the  remaining  four.  De 
Novo  Orbe,  .  .  by  Eden,  .  .  .  ^hereunto 
the  other  fiue  are  newly  added  by  the  Indus- 


trie andpainefull  Trauaile  of  M.  Lok  Gent.f 
Lond.,4to,  1612;  5prel.  11.;  31811.  Idem 
ofusf  Lend.,  4to,  1628. 

"  Loc.  cit.,  col.  1469. 

'  Analecta  Lilt.,  page  J063,  and   Catal. 

Bihl.  Lugd,  Balav.,  page  206. 

_  '  "  C'est-a  dire,   au   sud   I'Afrique ;  a 

Test  les  relations  de  Marco  Polo;  a  I'ouest, 

terra  crucis,  les  ile.'s  du  nouveau  monde  et 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  j^j 

Sylvanus  anotationes  in  Ptholemaei  geo- 
graphiam.  ||  ^ 

Colophon : 

Venetiis  per  Jacobum  Pentium  de  leu- 
cho  II  Anno  domini.  m.d.xi.  Die  xv  ||  Menfis 
Martii.  ||  * 

inilr  that  Th.  "'^  '^OPX. contains  "  les  28  cartes'".     We 

las,  and  described  in  the  Mnpoteca  Colombiann. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

uisrE:;»T""" "'  ■-  "• « ^  ■»  —  ^-  cStl',?,;; 

„  f  ,  {Mapoteca  Colombiana*.) 

Les  cartes  sont  d'autant  plus  remarquables  au'elle,  fnr^n.  1 
mieres  imprimees  d'apres  un  nouveau  Dror/H^^  l  .  l  '  '"  P'^' 
gravees  en  bois.  et  percees  de  trois  aux  endrot  n  !f  ^''"'^"  ""'^"^ 
les  noms  des  lieux,  afin  de  les  y  p  acer  en  S  It.  "T  '■'  ''°""^^ 
primerie  ;  I'ecriture  devint  alor^s  ^  lis^ble  n.lT/''^'"''''!-'^'''"- 
un  effet  desagreable  a  I'ceil."  *        '  '"  "^'^  ofFrirent 

[Labanoff  Catalogue.) 

Bernard    Sylvanus,    of  Eboli    (in    the   kingdom    of 
Naples),    was    a   geographer    of   remarkable  fearning, 


terra  Laboratoris :  sont  figurees  sur  la  pre- 
miere  carte,    mappemonde    de    Ptolemee 

/.«".','■'  "'^"""^  ""  developpementde 
108  de  la  longueur  de  I'habitable,  de  70° 
tant  a  Test  qu'a  Touest  :  ainsi  quVUe 
s^etend  sur  320°  de  longueur."  Lelewkl, 
Gcogr  duMoytn  Age,  Vol.  II,  p.  ,5,,  „.' 
*  Anghce  :  The  book  of  Claudius 
Ptolemy  of  Alexandria  on  Geography,  to- 
gether With  maps,  a  mappemonde,  and  a 


supplement  containing  the  places  which 
have  been  discovered  by  recent  navigators. 
Carefu  ly  corrected  and  printed.  Annota- 
tions ot  Sylvanus  to  Ptolemy's  Geography 
Venice,  by  James  Pentius  de  Leucho; 
A.D.  1511,  March  15th. 

'a  B.hhotheque  du  Princt  Labanoff i  Paris 
8vo,  i8i3,  p.  7.  ' 

*  London,  8vo,  i860,  p.  i,  No.  2. 


ii8 


Bibliotheca  Americana 


151  !•     boldness  and  imagination.     His  work  can  scarcely  be 

u     -  called  an   edition    of  Ptolemy's    Cosmograpkia,   for   he 

undertook  therein  to  remodel  Ptolemy  himself,  by 
means  of  data  borrowed  from  modern  navigators,  which 
he  interspersed  with  such  erroneous  conjectures  boldly 
set  forth  as  facts,  that  no  reliance  whatever  can  be 
placed  upon  his  maps,  text,  or  assertions.  Withal, 
Sylvanus'  Ptolemy  is,  in  a  cartographical  point  of  view, 
an  extremely  curious  book.  Lelewel  says'  that  the  maps 
are  "admirables,  d'une  forme  seduisante  et  plus  pro- 
portionnee,  plus  harmonieuse  que  les  constructions  dc 
ce  genre  de  geographies  posterieures."  Raided,  on  the 
other  hand,  seems  to  entertain  a  contrary  opinion. 


Dirrct  re/ercnits  i 


Fabbicius,  Bihliotheca  Graca,  Vol.  v,  page  275. 

Hanzik,  Annates  Typogr,,  Vol.  viii,  page  405. 

Bauer,  Bihlioth.  Suppl.  Vol.  11 1,  page  210. 

Napionu,  Dtl  Prima  Siopritore,  page  87. 

ZuRLA,  Sulle  Antiche  mappt,  cap.  xxviii, 

Bihliotheca  Thottiana,  Vol.  VI 1,  page  104. 

Bibliotieca  Heheriana,  Part  VII,  No.  5233. 

Van  Prait,  Catal.  da  livres  sur  •velin,  Vol.  ill.  No.  4;   Lomrnip 

Catalogue,  Part  III,  page  66,  No.  383  ;  MacCarthy  Catal.,  Vol. 

II,   No.   3876;   Bihliotheca  Hohendorfiana,  page  83,  No.  500, 

Brunet,  Vol.  IV,  col.  954;    Libri  Catalogue,   1859,  No.  2176, 

all  for  copies  printed  un  vellum. 


I  CI  2.  6g.     STOBNICZA  {JOHN  DE\—^  \ntX0A\xdi\0    in    CLAVDII 

— ==!  PTHOLOMEi  Cofmographiam  :  cum  longitunibus  &  lati- 
tunibus  regionum.  Cum  Carmir.e  Sapphico  Rudolphi 
Agricotae  ad  Epifcopum    Posnanienfem  Joannem   Lu- 


•  Loc.  cit.,  Vol.  II,  p.  152. 

'  De  Ptolem.  Geogr.  ejusj.  coJicihui  f 
Nuremb.,  4to,  1737,  p.  55. 

*  Walsee-muUer,  alias  Hylacomylus,  oc- 
cupies such  a  peculiar  position,  owing  to 
the  publication  of  the  St.  Die  Cosmography, 
that  everything  which  he  ever  wrote  on 
kindred  subjects  must  prove  of  interest  to 
the  collector  of  books  on  America.  We 
were  in  hopes  that  the  "  Instructio  manu- 
ductionum  prestani  in  cartam  itinerariam 
Martini  Hilacomili  cum  luculentiori  ipsius 


Europa  tnerratione  a  Ringmanno  Philesio 
•vosigena  conscripta.  Argentorati  ex  offic. 
yohannis  Grunigeri  [1511,  in  4.  folior. 
21]  (Lelewel,  Geogr.  du  Moyeti  Age, 
Vol.  II,  page  143),  contained  some  details 
of  interest  concerning  the  subject  before 
us  i  but  if  we  may  judge  from  tlie  interest- 
ing and  apparently  exhaustive  analysis 
given  by  Freytac  (Analecta  litteraria  de 
lihris  rariorihus ;  Leipzig,  8vo,  1750,  page 
449),  we  apprehend  that  the  search  would 
prove  fruitless. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  i^q 

branflci.    ImprefTum  Cracoviae  per  Florianum    Ungle-    IC12. 
num  Anno  Domini  mcccccxii.  4. 

''lanociana  I.  p.  8.  it.  p.  237.  Bibl.  Schw.  iun."^- 

(Panzir'.) 

Concerning  this  Polish  geographer,  we  could  only 
find  two  or  t'^ree  passing  notice!'  of  the  most  insignifi- 
cant character  fhose  who  have  access  to  Le  ewd's 
Btbljograficznycb  Ksiag  dwoje\  may  be  more  fortunate 

rhe  present  isagogic  treatise  contains  important  pas- 

imperfect  woodcu./aln.ost  Hfegib  e  '  The  n";" wS 
IS  drawn  as  a  continene,  from  jo"  N  la    to  an"s  1  f 
and  from  the  Equator  to  the  -^ropic  of  Caprtcor^h e,' 

he  word"'''"""  ™""'"B  "'""8  ^  ™-«  line  wes"   w  th 
the  words:   "terra   w«toV«."      Tudeinff   fromTh     j 
scr,p„on  given  by  Kuns^mann,  tCf  ap^t  no    seem 
to  bear  anywhere  the  name  of  America      Ir  hn=  I 
supposed  that  it  was  an  intercalated  map    but  ft„     T 
passage  in  which  the  author  give,  inTtmctior'  ,  ^ 

the  editions  of  Ptolemy  servf  for  the  Itf  Z         ""'''" 
.s  evident  that  it  belo/ged   origi^    r/.Tthe  ^oTk"',': 
s  often  wantmg      Kunstmann%tates  that  the  daie  of 
■512,  given   by  Panzer,   is   not   to   be   found   in  rl? 
V,enna  cop,es    which  contain  at  the  end  only  "tht 

ri^m^-and'nTd^rw^hatr:"-.  ""  ''°™"""  ""S'^ 


*  AnpUt  :    Introduction    to   the    Cos-  '   ^„3     '^. 

mography  of  Claudius  Ptolemy,  together  »  V^T     'v    iv'''  P"  *54. 

wuh  the  latitude  and  longitudJof  places  ..g     T     ''  ^'"""'  '"'"•""'  '"'•  ">.  P- 

VV.th  the  Sapphic  poem  ot'Rudolph  Agr  1  p*    '  c      "'  ^"'"""•l'"  i  Paris,  Vol.  v'„,. 

tola  to  John  Lubranski,  Bishop  of  Pos-  »  v^ii„,   g         ,          . 

nania.      Primed   in   Cracovia   by   Florian  «  n      !•'  ^^"''8^3-26,  Vol.  ,. 

Ungler,  A.  D.  .s,».               '"^    '^'''"^"  J  f''   ^ntdeckung    America:;    Munich, 

4to,  1859,  p.  130,  ,y.  ' 

17 


130  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  5  I  2.  70.    MONTALBODDO*  {F.  DB)~Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

|lla<rfi  mmmit  xtXxm- 
att.  T  Ml)  II  m  Jlt0nl>0  lia 
^Ibmru  Hffjittitw  /la- 
rrntin0  intitttlatn. n 

Then  vignette  representing  the  king  receiving  Vespuccius. 
Colophon : 

C  Stampato  in  Milano  con  la  impefa 
de  lo.  lacobo  &  fratelli  da  Lignalino:  & 
diligente  cura  &  induftria  de  loanne  An- 
gelo  fcinzezeler  :  nel.  M.  ||  cccccxii.  adi. 
xxyil.  de  Mazo  II 

\*  Sm.  4to.  seventy-five  unnumbered  leaves,  including  title  and 
three  leaves  of  tables;  text  in  Roman  characters. 

(Private  Library,  New   York.) 

Direct  r,/,rr<««,..  j-Hibbert  Catalogue,  page  461,  No.  8,77 
■j  Brunet,  Vol.  V,  col.  U58. 
(  C.  R.  (Riva  of  Milan)  Catalogue,  Parii,  1856. 

71.  ^^EVSEBU  cMSARiENmY.^\{zo^x  Chronicon :  quod 
Hieronymus  prefbyterdivino  eius  ingenio  latinum  facere 
curavit,  et  ufque  in  Valentem  Caefarem  Romano  adiecit 
eloquio.     Ad  quern  &  Profper  &  Matth^us  Palmerius, 


_  *  The  following  note,  which  we  have 
just  received  from  M.  D'Avezac,  enables 
us  to  correct  the  mistake  we  had  fallen 
into  (on  the  authority  of  Baldelli  and 
Humboldt),  when  describing  the  preced- 
ing editions  of  the  present  work  : 
"Alexandre  Zorzl  a  ite  le  fiitmur  d'un  ex- 


emplaire  du  Paiii  nutuamintt  ritrcvail  de  Fra 
canzi.i  de  MonUlboddo,  Viccnce  1507,  auquel  il 
fit  de  nombreuses  additions  de  pieces  majiuscritcs 
dMt  la  date  descend  au  moijis  iusqu'cn  itu- 
c  est  une  des  legerctes  d'Alexandre  de  Humb.djI 
de  1  avoir  pns  pour  raui,ur  memc  de  la  collec- 
tion imprimee.'-  (See  BuU.,i„  J.  la  Sodiii  d, 
Gtiiraphi,,  Pans,  for  October,  1857,  Note  x 
P»ge  J12.)  '" 


^ 


■man 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  i^i 

&  Matthias  Palmerius,  demum  &  Johannes  Multivallis  I  C I  2. 
complura  quae  ad  haec  ufque  tempora  fubfecuta  funt^ 
adiecere.— Abfolutum  eft  in  alma  Parifiorum  Academia, 
per  Henricum  Stephamm,  in  formularia  literarum  arte 
opificem,  illius  maxima  cura  &  diligentia,  nee  non  eiuf- 
dem  &  Jodoci  Badii  in  hoc  opere  fociorum  non  parvis 
expenfis.  Anno  ab  incarnatione  domini  cunfta  guber- 
nantis,  millefimo  guingentefimo  duodecimo.  Idibus 
vero  lunii.     In-4.*' 

(Maittaire'  and  Renouard'.) 

We  could  find  only  one  copy  of  a  Paris  edition  of 
husebms    Chromcon    printed  by  Stephanus,   in    102. 

l!t\?'  V'"f  •     ^^'  ^^^  ''  examined,  and  the  I-eport  is 
hat  It  extends  only  to  A.  D.  449.     As  the  title  is  want- 
ing we  are  unable  to  state  whether  it  is  the  same  edition 
mentioned  by  Renouard,  with  the  remaining  leav  s  t^rn 
off,  or  whether  ,t  ,s  a  different  edition  not  containing 
the  additions  of  Matthias  Palmerius  (to   1481)   and  of 
one  John  Multivallis  (to  the  year  of\he  tmi^;e  stn) 
Bibliographers  are  familiar  with  an  edition  of  the  clroJi 
conoi  1512,  owing  to  the  circumstance  that  it  con  aTns 
under  the  year  1457,  a  statement  which  is  often  quoted 
in  favor  of  the  claims  of  Guttenberg  to  the  inven?i^n  of 
pnnting';  but  judging  from  the  following  notice,  which 
we  clip  from  a  booksellers'  catalogue^  it  seems  tha^  tMs 
edition  of  the  Bishop  of  Cesareal  CWVr(wh  ih  in 
Its  original  form  was  written  before  A.  D.  .38)   deserves 
a  place,  however  small,  in  our  Bibliotheca    ^^ 

'  Annalti   Typographici,  Vol.   ii,    Part  '  '«  .  ratiT  ,^r^~  '^, 

I,  p.  231.  11*  .    ratia     1440.    invtnta  f"    {„ 

o  "«»«,  p.  IS,  No.  15.  Cretaine's,  Paris,  1863,  No.  98. 


'ili^l.u  pi|i,ij|i;jiw||y(ii  pi 


132 


Bibliotheca  Americana, 


I  5 1 2         This  passing  notice  is  interesting  when  added  to  the 
'     following  from  Charlevoix' : 

r  ^'L.?'^"'^  ^ilj?^^  C'5o8]  on  vit  en  France  un  Sauvage  du  Canada 
qu  un  i'llote  de  Dieppe,  nomme  Thomas  Aubert,  y  avait  amene." 


^5^2'        72*  SABELLico  (MARK.ANT.)-''  Rhapfodis  Hiftoriarum 
Enneadum,  2  torn.  foVio.  Pari^is,  apud  Afcenfium,  15 13." 

(Panzer'  and  Kloss*.) 


Doctor  Kloss'  annotation,  "  Ed.  ii."  is  erroneous, 
this  must  be  at  least  the  third  edition. 


as 


73.  BERGOMAS  (JAC.  PHIL.)~Withir,  an  ornamented  border : 

SVPPLEMENTVMII 

rum  at)  ipfo  iEunltri  iBxotUio  ufop  atf  reiremptio  II 
nis  iHoftta?  ^ttiium  .iW.mcc.ar.  ctritum.  3Et  tt(juif= 
fime  mogiiituMi  3St  caftCgatum  a  19'fneranlro  patrc 
JacoHo  Itilippo  Betgomate  orliinis  l^etemitarui. 
^titritis  per  eu.  II  trem  Euctore  $  pluriftus  btilimmis 
r  neceffa  II  rijs;  atrlritioniijus.  |lec  no  clegati  tai)u= 
la  II  nouiter  ercogitata  qu^  omnia  mirifice  tremon= 

ftrat.  II  (ttU    (Sratia    [/r.^^^^^/   representing    St.    MUhaeH    t 

i^riuilegio 

Colophon  : 

C  Explicit  fupplementum   fupplementi 
Chronicarum    Dili  ||  genter    Et    Accurate 


•  Histoire  de  la  Nowvelle  Frame  f  Paris,  '  Annales  Tyfogr.,  Vol   viii   p    642 

4to,  1744,  Vol.  1,  p.  XIV.  »  Catalogue,  p.  241,  No.  3386.' 


Bibliotheca  Americana,  i-j"? 

Reuifum   At(5  Correctu.     Vene||tiis  im-   15 13. 

prefTuz  Opere  &  impenfa  Georgii  de  Ru  || = 

fconibus  Anno  a  Naitiuitate  Xpi  .M.D.  || 
XIII.  Die  .XX.  Augufti.  Regnate  Leo- 
nardo LauredanollVenetiarum  Principe.ll* 

%*  Folio,  three  hundred  and  thirty-five  numbered  leaves. 

(Boston  Athenaeum.) 

The  chapter  '^  Be  quattuor  fmaximis  infulis  in  india 
extra  orbem  nuper  inuentis,"  commences  on  the  verso  of 
rolio  J29. 

Direa  r^ferc.ccs :  <  Pander,  ^nna/„  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  v,„,  page  4,5. 
l  K.I0SS  Catalogue,  page  49,  Ho.  6to. 


74-     ^TOLEMT-ESSLER.UBEUN-Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

ClmtMt  |lt0Umnii 
»m  ^kranhriniii 

Mathematics  difciplin^  Phi]ofophi||doc- 
tillimill  Geographic  opus  nouiffima  traduc- 
tione  e  Gr^collrum  archetypis  caftigatif- 
iime  prefTum  :  ceteris  ||  ante  lucubratorum 
multo    pr^ftantius.  ||  Pro  Prima  parte 


AngUct :  Supplement's  Supplement  to 
the  Chronicles  from  the  beginning  of  the 
world  to  the  year  of  our  Redemption 
I5'0-  Very  recently  revised  and  cor- 
Dvf'^  ^l  J^''^  Venerable  Father  James 
Fhilip  of  Bergamo,  of  the  order  of  the 
Hermits.     The  most  useful  and  necessary 


con- 


supplements  were  added  by  the  same 
author,  together  with  a  newly  elaborate 
table,  which  explains  everything.  With 
Grace  and  Privilege.  Venice,  printed  by 
Georges  de  Rusconi,  A.  D.  ,5,3,  August 
20th,  under  the  reign  of  Leonard  de  Uve- 
dano,  Prince  of  Venice. 


/ 


134  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1 51 3.  tinens  II I  CI.  Ptolem^i  Geographiam  per 
=  octo  libros  partitam/  II  ad  antiquitat^  fuam 
integre  &  line  ulla  corruptione.  ||  2  Vna 
cum  collatione  didlionum  gr^carum  e  re- 
gionellad  latinas  certiflima  graduum  cal- 
culatione.  ||  3  Regiftrationem  item  nouam 
regionum/  praefecturarum/  ciuitatum/  flu- 
minum/  marium/  lacuum/  portuum/  filua-|| 
rum/  oppidorum/  villarum  ac  gentium/ 
ad  ordinem  ||  chartarum  &  columnarum 
Unguia  certillimo  mon  ||  ftrans  indice.  ||  4 
Qua  breuis  &  dodiflima  Gregorij  Lilij 
fubfequitur  in- 1|  ftrud:io  de  Grt^co^  numer- 
ali  fupputatione/  in  tradu-||dione  gr^ca  res 
fcitu  aurea.  j]  5  Tabularum  dein  Auctoris 
vigintifeptem  ordo  hie  eft  ||  Generale  orbis 
iuxta  defcriptione  Ptolemi^  Vna.  |!  Europe' 
tabul^  Decem.  ||  Aphric^  tabulc^  Quat- 
tuor.  II  Afi^  tabul^  Duodecim.  ||  Eft  &  una 
corporis  Spherici  in  piano  iuxta  fine.  7. 
li.  II  Pars  Secunda  moderniorum  luftrati- 
onum  Viginti  tabu  I|  lis/  veluti  fupplemen- 
tum  quoddam  antiquitatis  obfo  ||  let^/  fuo 
loco  qu^  vel  abftrufa/  vel  erronea  vide- 
ban-  II  tur  refolutiflime  pandit.  ||  Adnexo  ad 
finem  tractatu  ficuti  ledtu  iucundiflimo/  || 
ita  &  utiliflimo  de  varijs  moribus  &  ritibus 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


135 


gen-  II  tium  :   eorundemc^  ac  localium  no-    15 13. 
minu  originibus.||  Breuis  continentia  Libri.||  = 
Oppida/  regna/  lacus/  montes/  &  9quora/ 
filuas/jjAc  hominum  mores  hie  Ptolemeus 
habet.ljCum  gratia  &  priuilegio  Imperi- 
alijl  pei  ^  annos.ll 

Colophon,  verso  of  the  seventy-second  leaf: 
ANNO     CHRISTI    OPT.     MAX.      MDXIII.     MARCH 

XII.  II  PreiTus  hie  Ptolemeus  Argentine  vigi- 
lantiffima  eafti-|igatione/  induftriacR  loan- 
nis    Sehotti   ur-  ||  bis  indigen^.  ||  regnante 

MAXIMILIANO   CAESARE  ||  SEMPER  AVGVSTO.  || 

***  n'\'  ^°J'?'  '''^'  °"'  leaf+one  unnumbered  leaf  +  leave, 
numbered  from  5  to  60  +  fifteen  unnumbered  lea^L  for  the 
index +twenty-s,x    maps    on   double   leaves  +  anothe     title 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Owl's  Head.) 

The  merit  of  this  edition  of  Ptolemy's  Geozraphia  is 

and  JpngnolU") ;  and  the  second  map   „£  'is  h£d  H 
TABVIA  TERRE  TOVE.     The  latter  is  ieTv  f,,M    .       ■.''  ' 

coast,  blsidSXii^ti  "aCLrs:;'"''^  r 

reprinted:     •  ^  afterwards  so  frequently 


,.0 


T"Tr" 


1  ij6  Bib  Ho  thee  a  Americana. 

1 5 1 3.      l^ec  terra  rum  atriacentib'  (nfulis  Inuenta  eft  per 
-  orolumbil  II  ianuenfem  ex  mantrato  Hegis  (ttaftelle. 

This  inscription  is  on  the  section  which  corresponds 
to  what  we  now  call  Yucatan,  and  is  followed  by  the 

words  TERRA  INCOGNITA. 

These  two  maps  acquire  a  certain  importance  from 
the  following  lines,  which  we  extract  from  the  preface 
on  the  verso  of  the  second  title-page  : 

•  Charta    aute    Marina/     quam    Hydro- 

graphiam  vocant/  per  Admiralem  quondam 
ferenifli.  Portugali^'  regis  Ferdinandi/  c^- 
teros    denic^   luftratores    verillimis   pagra- 

!  tioibus  luftrata. 

This  passage  has  doubtless  prompted  the  opinion 
that  the  first  of  the  two  maps  above  described  had  been 
depicted  by  Columbus  himself 

I  "Nous  voyons,  says  Santarem',  que  la  carte  marine  etait  appelee 

i  Carte  de  PAmiral,  ainsi  elle  fut  primitivement  dressee  par  Colomb 

j  ou  par  Cabral,  mais  jamais  par  Vespuce,  car  celui-ci   n'a  pas  eu  ce 

I  grade  eminent.     II  parait  hors  de  doute  que  la  carte  ainsi  designee  a 

'  ete  dessinee  soit  par  I'Amiral  Colomb,  soit  par  ses  ordres  soit  d'aprcs 

ses  dccouvertes." 

Kloss'  calls  this  edition  "  Ed.  ix." 

Dirtct  references:  (  Fabricius,  Biblio'    tea  Graca,  Vol.  v,  page  275. 

Panzer,  Annales  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  VI,  page  60. 

Raidel,  Comment,  criiico-tit.  de  C.  Ptol.  page  56. 

Hoffmann,  Bibliogr,  Lexicon,  Vol.  ill,  page  317. 

Humboldt,  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  IV,  page  109. 

Lelewel,  Giogr.  du  Moyen-Age,  Vol.  11,  pages  157-160. 

Mapoteca  Cilombiana,  No.  3,  for  the  statement  that  "en  la  eJicion 
de  Londres  de  1535  [Lyons?]  se  halla  este  mismo  mapa  con 
algunas  modificaciones  reducida  a.  36.  395." 

Beaupre,  Recherches  sur  VImprim.  en  Lorraine,  page  83, 

Graesse,  Treior,  Vol.  T,  page  501,  states  that  "Dans  quelqucs 
exemplaires  la  souscription  de  la  seconde  partie  est  datee  IJ12." 

Brunet,  Vol.  V,  col,  955. 


'  Ferdinand   of  Spain   is  evidently  in-  '  Recherches  sur  Americ    l-'esfuce  el  ses 

tended,  as  Ferdinand  of  Portugal  died  Oc-     -voyages,  p.  165. 
tober  lid,  1383.  '  Catalogue,  p.  237,  No.  3321. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  i-jy 

7  5 .     CATANEO  (J.  M.)-  Within  an  ornamented  border  t  '  5  ^  4' 

lO:   MAll  ^"^ 

yerso  of  the  title-page : 

Data   Roma   calendis   Februarii.   M.D. 
XIIII, 

Colophon : 

C  ImprefTum  Romae  apud  lacobum  Ma- 
zo-  II  chium  Ro.  Acad,  bibliopolam. 

*^*  4to,  sine  anno,  eleven  unnumbered  leaves  +  one  blank. 

(British  Museum.) 

mlT'ZJ''"  f-  '^l^^gy"^^"  of  greater  classical  attain- 
ments than  poetical  genms.  A  native  of  Novarra',  he 
died  at  Rome  in   irao"   rich   enviVH    o„^  . 

h„.-;^H  k,r  I,-  ^^^'y'  "cn   envied,  and  was  secret  y 

buned  by  his  enemies,  who  wished  to  enjoy,  und^r  his 
name   the  emoluments  arising  from  his  benefices.  '  The 

Mirt"^>  'P"'.?l  '"'"P^'"^  °"  '^^'  ^'<^^''^on  by  one 
Mirteus'  is  well  known.  ^ 

Cataneo  wrote  at  the  request  of  his  benefactor    Car- 
dinal Bendinelli,  a  Genoese,  a  poem  in  praise  of  the  city 

con«Tnin."col'  "k'''  ^Tt"^'  ^"^  ^°" '^'"«  -'-^  -r- 
concerning  Columbus  and  his  voyages. 

Direct  reference:  :<Bihlhtheca  Hebena„a,  Part  I,  No,  1476 
I  Tross"  Catalogue,  1865,  No.  i. 


•  The  epitaph  is  to  be  foil  'n  JovTut     iToTT'lt'  "  (^="'"'  "-"'  '5S») 

18 


^8  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

^5^4*     7"'     ^BERTUS  MAGNUS-TylNNSTETTER— Within  a  border : 

Habes  in  hac  pagina.  Amice  le/ 1|  dor. 
ALBERTI  MAGNI  II  Germani  principis 
philolbphi.  II  De  natura  locoru.  Librii  mira|| 
eruditioe  &  fingulari  fruge  re/  ||  pertu,  & 
iam  primu,  siimma  diligetia  reuifum/  in 
lucemijsditu/  que  legis  dilige/ II  tins/  fi  uel 
Cofmogra/ II  phia  uel  Phifica  p.feciffe  te 
uo-  II  lueris.  || 

Colophon : 

Excufum  VIENnae  Auftris  .Mens  . 
Mar  .  M.D.  XIIII.  ||  Opera  HIEROnymi 

Vicloris  &  lOAN  .  Sin/||grenii  Socio^,  di- 
ligentiu  imprefTo^  .  Impe-  ||  fis  uero  LE- 
onhardi  &  LVcae  Alantfe  II  fratrum  Ciuium 
Viennenfiu.  ||  Imperante  Diuo  MAXIMI- 
LIANO  Caefare  Aug.  ||  P.  F.  P.  P.  || 

**  4to>  fifty-two  unnumbered  leaves ;  large  woodcut,  representing 
five  imperial  shields,  on  the  verso  of  the  last  leaf. 

(British  Museum.) 

First  edition  given  by  Georges  Tannstetter,  sometimes 
called  Collimitius,  and  interesting  to  the  American  col- 
lector on  account  of  the  following  marginal  note,  which 
seems  to  have  been  inserted  with  movable  type  after  the 
book  had  been  printed. 

Recto  of  the  last  leaf  in  signature  e  : 

Ecce    cocludit  ||  vltra    eqnodi  ||  ale.    50. 
gradi  I  bus  terra  efTe  ||  habitabile  (5 1|  Vefpu- 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  tjq 

tius  fu  II  pioribus  an-  ||  nis  in  fuis  na  ||  uiga-    '5 14. 
tionibus  ||  inuenit  &  de-  ||  fcripfit.*  - 

']'],   IDEM  OPUS-'' Ti^     Natura    Locorum,    edente 
Georg.  Faunftelter  {sic). 

"£^.ii  Argentorati,  Math.  Schurer,  &c.,  iriA  4to 
^'-  73»  389  [Panzer]." 

(Ktoss  Catalogue.') 

Owing  to  the  want  of  liberality  exhibited  by  narrow- 
minded  owners  of  the  Annales  of  Panzer  in  New  York 
and  Philadelphia,  we  are  unable  to  ascertain  in  what  re- 
spects the  present  edition  differs  from  the  following,  and 
whether  there  is  not  an  error  in  the  imprint  as  to  the  date 


7  8 .    IDEM  OPUS-Within  an  ornamental  border  : 

Habes  in  hac  pagina.  Amice  lector/ 
AL-ljBERTl  MAGniGermani  pricipis  || 
philofophi/  De  natura  locorum  Li  ||  brum 
mira  eruditione/  &  fmgula  ||  ri  fruge  refertu/ 
&  lam  primum  ||  fumma  diligetia  reuifum/ 
in  II  luce  editum/  quem  leges  diligetius/  vel 
li  Cosmo  II  graphia  vel  Phyfica  ||  profecifTe 
te  vo-  II  lueris.  || 

Colophon : 

Argentorati.  Ex  Aedibus  Matthis  Schu- 

*  ^'^''";  Lo!  he  concludes  that  beyond     smacks  of  heresy    if  we  mav  i„H<^~ 

yea.  discovered  and  descriL^  was  habit-     ^'L^^'r^/iX^^  7.  '"  ^■"='"- 
This   opinion    from    Albertas    Magnus     Vo'l^ p'  SS^"' ^°*  ""^  °''""''  ^'"°'' 


I5I5. 


*40  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

^S^S'  rerij  ||  Menfe   lanuario.   M  D.  XV.  ||  Dudu 
-  Leonhardi,  &  Lucae  Alantfe  fratrum. 


*  *  4to,  forty-three  leaves  numbered  on  the  recto 


^j     -jiu,  lurty-inrec  leaves  numbered  on  the  recto.      Belowr  the 
W\A         "   "'°°'^'^"'   representing  two  griffins   supporting   a 
(BritUh  Mmeum.)  • 

"  Dans  I'edition  de  Strasbourg  dont  je  me  sers,  et  qui  a  paru  trois 
ans  apres  la  mort  d'Amerigo  Vespucci,  I'editeur.  George  Tanstetter. 
est  SI  emerveille  des  conjectures  d'Albert  le  Grand  sur  les  terres  de 
1  hemisphere  austral,  habite  jusqu'au  50'  degre  de  latitude,  qu'il  y  re- 
connait  une  prophetic  accomplie  par  la  navigation  d'Amerieo  Ves- 
pucci."     fHuMBOLDT'.)  * 

79.  ALBERTiNi  (FRANCIS.  /)£)_"  D 6  mirabilibus  novac 
&  veteris  Urbis  Romae,  &  de  Laudibus  Civitatum 
Florentiae  &  Sauonae.  Romae  151 5.  ap.  Jac.  Mazochium 

in  4tO."       (Clement".) 

See  suproy  No.  64. 

80.  SCHONER  (jOHNy-Recto  of  the  first  leaf : 

tcrcae  totiu»  UefcrCptio :  cfl  mwltig  btiUmmis  <!rof=|| 
mographiae  iniciis.  Nouac^  &  q  ante  fuit 
verior  Europae  noftrae  forma-  ||  tio.  Prgeterea 
Fluuioru  :  montiu  :  prouintiaru  :  Vrbiu  :  & 
gentium    qpluri-  ||  moru    vetuftifTima    no- 


■  fS-^"T'-  ^°'\r'  f-  "•  ^''""'^'   '^'  "''""■'•   Latin.,   p.    67.,   and 

B,bU,,hr<iu,  Curuu»,  Vol.  1,  p.  ,2,  j     Galhrini's  Catal.,  Rome,  ,856,  No.  695 


1 

1 


}  ■' 


' 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  141 

mina  recentioribus  admixta  vocabulis.  Mul-  ^S^S' 
ta  etia  ||  qu£e  diligens  lector  noua  vfuicR  fu-  ™— - 
tura  inueniet.  || 

Then  an  epigram,  in  eight  lines,  from  John  Hiltner,  followed  by 

iiTum  PrittUegio  Jnuictif.  Momanortt  Jmpcra. 
WaximiUani  per  <©cto  annoia;  neqtiis  (mprimat: 
aut  imprimere  procuret  cotr(ce»  1)0)3 :  cum  mm^ 
arofmo8rapt)ic(B :  fut  mulcta  QUinpaBhita  Uxt- 
norum  Meueft.  et  amifflone  omnift  exemplarium.  || 

Colophon  on  recto  of  leaf  6^  : 

If  ImprefTum  Noribergae  i  excuforia  offi- 
cina  II  loannis    StuchfTen.     Anno    domini. 


* 


* 


4to,  title   one.  with  arms  on  the  verso  +  eleven  unnumbered 

prehmmary  leaves  +  one  unnumbered  leTfwith  woodcut  rep 

resentmg  a  large  globe  on  a  stand;   then  sixty-five  numbered 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York,  Brooklyn,  and  Harvard  Coll.  Libr.) 

a  Bamberg,  commen  a  ^  fabriqueTlf^lob^e;-"  Vc  t  eTr  """" 
.l^publia  un  ouvrag^  [the  abV].  II  y  cJnfecHonna  en  ',^.0  ^J^' 
depends  de  Jean  Seyler,  un  globe-'du  dia'metre  de  .8  pieds  Je  Par" 
Appele  en  1526  a  Nuremberg,  comme  professeur   i    v  tl!? 

tti;T-i  rubi-rr- '" ' "^'  "^^^^^^  ■' "p-°"e  r 

ae^baxe,^publia  deux   nouveaux  renseignements  sur  I'utilite  des 

♦  Anglice :  A  most  luminous  descrip- 
tion of  the  whole  earth,  together  with 
many  very  useful  elements  of  Cosmography 
A  new  and  truer  description  of  Europe 
than  any  of  the  preceding  ones.  The 
oldest  names  of  rivers,  mountains,  cities 
and  ot  most  nations,  have  been  compared 
with  the  recent  ones ;  the  reader  will  also 
hnd  many  other  things  new  and  useful  to 
him. 

With   the   privilege   of  the   invincible 


Emperor  of  the  Romans,  Maximilian,  for 
eight  years,  to  the  effect  that  nobody  shall 
print  or  have  any  of  these  books  printed 
with  the  cosmographic  globe,  under  penalty 
of  500  Rhenish  florins  and  the  loss  of  all 
the  copies. 

Printed  at  Nuremberg  in  the  establish- 
ment of  John  Stuchssen,  A.  D.  1515 

Copies  of  which  are  inserted  in  Santa- 
""'  f'"'  No.  130;  Ghiilany,  Giichich,, 
a.  ttham ;  and  Lilkwii,  Atlas. 


142 


hibliotheca  Americaua. 


I  5  I  5.    globes.     II  mourut  en  i  547  [,567']  et  pendant  sa  vie  ses  globe,  re- 
..««,««  pandaient   1  image   aiodernisee  de   I'habitable  de   Ptolemee,  nova  tt 
quam  ante  futt,  verier  Eur)pa!  formatio." 

(I.ILtWtL*.) 

The  reader  may  consult  with   advantage  (especially 
after  having  read  the  passages  relating  to  Vespuccius  in 
the  Opusculum  geographicum  of  the  same  author,  see  infra\ 
the   cap.  XI,  fol.  60,  which  begins  in  these  words: 

AMERICA  flue  Amerigen  no-  ||  uus 
mundus:  &  quarta  orbis  pars:  dida  ab 
eius  inuetore  Americo  Vefputio  viro  faga- 
cis  ingenii :  qui  earn  reperit  Anno  domini. 
1497.    In  ea  funt  homines  bru tales  [sic)  .  .  . 


Direct  references , 


Pinelo-Barcm,  Epitome,  Vol.  11,  col.  1009  (>) 
Panzer,  ^nna/e,  Typogr.,  Vol.  vit,  page  455 
DopPELMAYR,  n,.  d.  narnherg.  Mathematics,  pages  4c-ro 

Will,  Nurnherg.  Gelehrtenlexicon,  Vol  m. 

Bibliotheca  Breiuortiana,  . 

Butsch  Catalogue,  Nos.  396  and  397. 
Brunet,  Vol.  V,  col.  216. 


O  I  .     IDEM  OPUS-Surmounting  a  large  globe  on  a  stand; 

ORBIS  TYPVSii 

At  the  bottom  of  the  page  : 

Hexaftichon  loannis  Coclei  in  libellum 

Followed  by  six  verses  in  small  Gothic. 


•  Vossius    </.  7V^,«r^  Artium,  Lib.  ,„,  ler,  i//./«r,V,.tf„„„,„,>(Wittenbere  4to 

p.    12(1;    and,   if  our    memory   serves    us  1741)                                  l  "'"enDerg,4to, 

right,  in  Gassendi,  Vita  Braheri,  Coper-  »  Giographie    du    Moyen-A-re     Vol     „ 

met,  &c.(Paris,  4to,   1655),   and   We,i>-  page  176.                         "*      ^'         '■   "' 


s  re- 


ally 


Btuliotheca  Americana.  140 

Rffto  of  folio  65  : 

nis    Schoner:    omnes    Allrorum    imagines 
3  \n  ■  continente  :  ||  aliquot  verfus   loannis   Hilt- 

'»),  m  ner. 

Followed  by  eight  lines  of  poetry  and 

lus  ■  If  ImprefTum  Noribergas  i  excuforia  offi- 

ab  ■  cina  II  loannis    Stuchflen.    Anno    domini. 

;a-  1  '^'^' 

***  5"i'-"  '^'°'  "''*^  °"^  ■♦"  ^''^'y-five  numbered  leaves.  On  recto  of 
folio  16,  another  woodcut  of  a  globe  on  a  stand.  It  contains 
two  tracts;  the  first  ends  on  verso  of  folio  14. 

(Private  Libr.iry,  Washington  city.) 

We  insert  this  title,  not  to   convey  the  impression 
'?•'•  '•  ^P^^  1^  belongs  to  a  work  different  from  the  above   but 

«  simply  becausf  it  is  one  of  the  forms  in  which  the'  Lu- 

cuenttssma  is  sometimes  found.  This  is  only  the  above 
INo.  80  but  without  the  first  title  and  without  the  eleven 
unnumbered  preliminary  leaves. 

82.    REiscH  (GEORGES)-^' U^rg^mh^.     Philofophica 
nova  cui  annexa  funt  fequentia  Grecarum  literarum  in- 
ftitutiones  Hebraicarum  literarum  rudimenta  Architec- 
ture rudimenta  Quadrantum  varie  compofitiones  .  Af- 
trolabii    novi   geographici   compofitio  .  Formatio  Tor- 
quet.  .  Formatio  Polimetri.     Vfus  et  utilitas  eorundem 
omnium   .    Figura  quadrantis   poliginalis  Quadrantura 
circuh.     Cubatio  fphere.    Perfpectiue  phyfice  et  pofitive 
rudimenta  .  Cartha  univerfalis   terre  marifque  formam 
neotenca  defcriptione  indicans.     In  fine:  Accipe  candide 


^^^^' 


#■ 


144  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  ^  I  ^,  lector  Margaritam  Philofophicam  jam  denuo  regnoni- 
^^sss  tarn.  Cum  qui  te  bene  valere  induftrius  vir  Joannes 
Griiningerus  operis  excufor  et  optat  et  precatur.  Ex 
Argentoraco  Veteri  Nono  Kalendas  Februarias.  Anno  re- 
demptionis  nojire  decimo  quinto  fupra  mille  quingentos  .  Sequi- 
tur  Appendix.  Graecarum  literarum  injiitutiones,  ^c.  ut 
fupra  .  4. 

"  Gejner,  p.  61  .  Thott  .  vii  .  p  .  159  .  Collectio  nojira" 

(Panzer'.) 

Our  readers  are  doubtless  aware  that  the  present  is 
the  well-known  encyclopedia,  first  published  as  early  as 
1496^  by  the  Carthusian  Prior  Georges  Reisch,  who 
lived  at  Freiburg  and  was  the  Emperor  Maximilian's 
confessor'.  The  popularity  which  that  work  enjoyed  in 
the  early  part  of  the  sixteenth  century,  renders  it  neces- 
sary to  ascertain  what  geographical  notions  in  regard  to 
the  new  world  the  Margaritha  was  calculated  to  convey. 
There  are  editions  of  Strasburg,  by  Schott*,  and  by  Grii- 
niger',  4to,  1504;  Basle,  1508,  1517,  1535,  &c.,  but 
we  are  unable  to  state  whether  all  of  these  contain  maps. 
We  found  none  in  the  Freiburg  edition  of  150J,  but 
there  seems  to  be  a  very  important  map,  in  the  edition 
which  heads  the  present  notice. 

"  Auf  der  Karte  bei  Reisch,  says  Kunstmann',  ist  Amerika  als  Fesi- 
land  von  75°  N.  B.  bis  55°  S.  B.  gezeichnet.  Die  Kiiste  vom  75^ 
N.  B.  bis  zum  40°  N.  B.  fuhrt  den  aufFallenden  Namen  Zoana  Me- 
la',"  &c.,  &c. 


'  Annaltt   Typcgr.  Vol.   vi,  p.  69,  No. 

353- 

'  Hain,  Repcrtorium,  No.  13852. 

*  Weller,  Attei  aus  alien    Thtilen  dtr 
Gfsci.,  Chemnitz,  8vo,  1760-66,  Vol.  I. 

*  Libri  catal.,  for  1 861,  No.  61 7 1. 

'  Leipzig.  Lift.  Zcitung  for  Febr.  1804, 
page  lit. 


•  Die  Entdeckung  Amerikai.  Nach  den 
altetten  ^ellen  geschichtlich  dargeuelt  ; 
Munich,  4to,  1859,  p.  131 

'  Anglicn  :  On  the  map  in  Reisch, 
America  is  drawn  as  a  continent  from  75° 
N.  L.  to  55°  S.  L.  The  coast  from  75° 
N.  L.  to  40°  N.  L.  bears  the  remarkable 
name  Zoana  Mela. 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  \^t 

O^,     MONTALBODDO-DU  REDOUER-Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  I  C  I  C. 


J^f  t  na  uigattDn^:  fni  i 

ctes  par  iBmeric  iie  befpure  jFlorentin.  Beg  II  pags 
r  ifle»  nouucUem^t  ttouue^  au  pauSt  II  a  no'  iii= 
cagneu?  ^Tant  en  leti)iope  q  avraftie  II  OTaKdjut  pt 
aultreg  plufieurs  regions  eftraiDges  s:raflate  Ue 
Jtalien  en  Hague  Mcoife  II  par  matfjurin  tru  re:r 
trouer  licencie  e»  \ts\x. 

siJ^'^hf  "h-"  '^"'"^.  '^\'"u   °^  '"^^  P^g^'  «"d  representing  the 
signs  of  the  zodiac;  under  which,  we  notice,  printed  in  red :  XIX 

Verso  of  the  fourth  leaf: 

<©n  les  bent  a  paris  en  la  rue  neufue  no  II  ftre 
iiame  a  lenfeigne  tre  lefcu  tre  jFranee.  II 

*,*  Sm.  4to.  sine  .mm,  title  one  leaf  +  three  unnumbered  leaves 
+  Lxxxviu  numbered  leaves,  the  last  of  which  is  marked  bv 
mistaice  lxxxx.  ■ 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

This  work  is  a  literal  translation,  in  primitive 
SeTrheVol^^ing:^"       ^^^   ^-^^"^^'   '^^ '    ^i^er. 

C  org  commence  le  quart  liure  tre  (a  nauigatia 
faicte  en  la  mer  tre  ^mzxiX  par  (Kijrlftofle  colomb 
geneuoiis. 

Brunei  is  of  opinion  that  the  present  may  be  the 
earhest  of  the  editions  of  Du  Redouer's  translation  and 
that  It  was  printed  "  chez  Jehan  Trepperel  ou  sa  veive^ 
But  which  of  the  two  Trepperels  ?   One  Jehan  Trep- 

19 


146 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


1^15.    perel  died  in  1502  {Lotiin')  or  after  1506*,  or  in  1508'. 

--—59—--  Another  Jehan  Trepperel  printed,  also,  "  a  lenseigne  de 
lescu  de  frame,"  as  late  as  I53I^  As  to  the  widow  Trep- 
perel, she  continued  her  husband's  business,  first  in 
single  blessedness,  and  afterwards  in  partnership  with 
Jehan  Janot.  Her  name,  according  to  Brunet',  does 
not  appear  after  1520. 

At  all  events  we  ascribe  to  the  present  the  date  of 
1515,  simply  because  Brunet  is  inclined  to  consider 
it  the  earliest  of  the  editions,  and  that  Galliot  du  Pre's 
(infra)  contains  a  privilege  dated  January  15 16.  Leng- 
let  du  Fresnoy^  however,  ascribes  to  the  edition  before 
us  the  date  of  15 19. 


Direct  rtferences  i 


Camus,  Memoiri  tur  de  Bry,  page  346. 
Bihliothica  Grenvilliana,  — . 

Brunet,  Vol.  v,  col.  11 59,  quotes  also  the  De  Bure  sale  or  cata- 
logue. 


84.     IDEM  OP  US—  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

SCnfut)t  \i  llDttiiiteau 

ms  par  IBmeric  tic  befpuce  jFlorcntinlJSesiipaijs 
r  iflc!3  nouuellcment  trouu^j  au  pauSt  a  II  no?  Tcon= 
gneu^  JTlit  en  leti)iope  q  aratie  cali-  II  ri)ut|t  aultrcs 
pluficutfis  regiais  eftrages.  xix  || 

Then  woodcut  representing  a  circle  in  a  square,  with  the  signs  of 
the  zodiac. 


'  Catalogue  Chronol.  dei  librairei-impri-  '  Marques  Tyfi>graphi<juet,^.'^%,^o.';^. 

meurs  Je  Paris  {   Paris,  410,  1 789.  *  See  La  vtngance  nostre  seigneur,  fr'inted 

'  See   the   various   editions   of  Tardif's  "  /an  mil  cinq  cens  trente  ung." 

I.ait  de/aulconnerie  ;  and  Le  mistere de  la  '  Manuel,  Vol.  in,  col.  1970. 


passion,  which  was  performed  "/an  mil ci'q 
tens  et  sept.' 


*  Methode  pour  etudier  PHistoire,  Vol. 
IV,  page  407. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  147 

C  ©tt  leg  benlr  a  ^ari»  a  lenfeiBne  ^ainrt  iefm  1 5 1 5.* 

bap  II X  Ifle  en  la  i^ue  neufue  i^^ofttc  Jame  pre« 

^ainctc  gene-  II  uiefuc  tiesi  arlrang.  Jefian  iannot.H 

*^*  4to,  title,  printed  in  blacic  and  red,  one  leaf  +  three  prelimi- 
nary leaves  +  lxxxvii  numbered  leaves,  thirty-nine  lines  to  a 
full  page.  Sine  anno,  but  from  its  great  resemblance  to  the 
above,  and  the  fact  that  Jehan  Janot  became  the  partner  of 
Trepperel's  widowr,  we  give  it  a  place  close  to  the  latter's 
edition. 

(British  Museum  and  Private  Libr.,  New  yorlc,  the  Utter  an 

imperfect  copy.) 

"  Cette  edition  ne  porte,  ni  privilege,  ni  date,  en  sorte  qu'il  est 
difficile  de  savoir  si  elle  a  precede  on  suivi  celle  de  Galliot  du  Pre  • 
cependant  Jean  Janot  ne  vivait  plus  en  1522."  ' 

(Brunet'.) 


Direct  references 


{Bi, 
Lv 


Bibliotheca  Grenvilliana,  — . 
'ivres  Curieux,  No.  119. 
Manuel,  Vol.  v.  col.  11 60. 


i 


85.  MAFFEi  0/ yoLTERR^-<<  CommentAnomm  urban- 
orum  Libri  xxxviii.   PartJ.  1510.  f." 

(M«U8«l'.) 

8  6.    IDEM  OPUS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

J  IB  nouucau  moT»e  z\  nauigaciong  faCntes  p 
-L'iEmeric  Ire  Uefpuce  flor^tin  |  lies  ||  pags  et  ifles 
ttouuellemet  trouue^  |  au  II  parauat  a  nous  mcong= 
neuflCaten  lelltl)iope  q  atatie  (ffalictut  r  aultres 


'  Bihliath.  Hislor.,  Vol.  I,  Part  I,  p.  281. 

*  We  find  under  this  date,  in  Maittaire 
(AnnaUi,  Vol.  II,  Part  I,  p.  267)  .•  Ru- 
DoLPHi  Agricola  junioris  [who,  by  the 
way,  should  not  be  mistaken  for  the  great 
and  genuine  Rudolph  Agricola  or  Rolef 
Huysman,  who  died  in  1485,  and  whose 
name,  in  this  instance,  was  assumed  by  a 
Franciscan  monk  called  John  de  Came- 
rino],  ad  Joachimum  Vadianum  Epistola 
de  locorum  nonnuUorum  obscuritate  cum 


JoACH.  Vadiani  Epistola  responsorii,  410 
l^Basilea']  j  but  we  are  unable  to  state 
whether  the  Epistle  of  Vadianus  mentioned 
in  that  work  is  the  same  which  entitles 
the  various  editions  of  Pomponius  Mela 
by  Vadianus  {infra)  to  a  place  In  this 
compilation. 

t  As  a  reference  made  by  Hakluyt 
(Vol.  Ill,  p.  6)  might  lead  the  reader  to 
consider  Robert  Fabian's  Annals  or  Chron- 
icles as  a  work  belonging  to  the  BiilioiAeca 


i5i6.t 


148 


Bibliotheca   Americana. 


1 5 16.  |)ltt  II  fieurst  tegions  eftranges  |  JTranflate  tre  Ctallen 
-=—  en  iiaguc  II  francogfe  par  iliilati)ttr(n  tru  tetiotict 


Ucencie  est  loix.  II 

Then  spirited  woodcut'  representing  a  vessel,  with  the  motto  : 
voGVE  LA  GVALLEF  and  the  words:  galliot  .  dv  .  pre,  followed  by 

atum  priuilegio  regis  II 
(T  Jmprime  a  Paris  pour  ©alUot  tru  pre  j  mavi 
rijant  U-  II  traire  tiemourant  fus  le  pont  noftre  trame  i 
a  (enfeigne  tKelllagalleelasant  fa  lioutique  en  la 
granti  falle  tiu  i^allass  II  au  feconti  i^illier.  II 

*^*  8vo,  sine  anno  (but  the  privilege  is  dated  Jan.  loth,  1516); 
title  one  leaf  +  five  preliminary  leaves -f- cxxxii  numbered 
leaves. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York,  Providence,  and  Harvard  Coll.  Libr.) 

"  La  Croix  du  Maine  a  indique'  cet  ouvrage  comme  imprime  a 
Paris  par  Galiot  du  Pre  en  15 16." 

(Camus'.) 

Galliot  Du  Pre,  printed  at  Paris,  according  to  the 
Marques  Typographiques  from  151 2  to  1559,  yet  we  know 
of  a  Palmerin  d! Olive  with  his  imprint,  dated  1572.  We 
find  the  same  woodcut  both  in  the  present  Du  Redouer 
and  in  the  edition  of  Alain  Bouchard's  Croniques,  pub- 
lished in  1 53 1,  when  Du  Pre  was  in  partnership  with 
Jehan  Petit. 


Direct  references : 


Ternaux,  Bibliothejue  Amiricaine,  No.   17. 

Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  ix,  No.  3128. 

Bibliotheca  Brotuniana,  No.  23. 

La  Valliere,  Aime  Martin,  Eyries  and  Essling  Catalogues. 

Brunet,  Vol.  V,  col.  1159. 


Americana,  we  must  state  that  Pynson's 
edition  (15 1 6,  five  years  after  Fabian's 
death),  which  is  the  first,  reaches  only  to 
the  year  1495.  That  date  is  early  enough, 
we  grant,  to  admit  of  at  least  a  reference 
to  rhc  New  World ;  but  we  failed  to  find, 
either  in  that  edition  orin  Rastall's  (1533) 
which  contains  a  continuation,  a  single 
line  germane  to  the  subject.  Hakluyt's 
reference  to  Sebastian  Cabot's  "first  dis- 


coverit  of  part  of  the  Indies,"  seems  to 
have  been  taken  from  a  continuation  by 
Fabian  himself,  mentioned  by  Stow,  but 
never  published.  (See  chap,  v,  and  appendix 
A,  in  Biddle's  Memoir  of  Sebastian  Cabot.) 

'  Republished  in  the  Marques  Typogra- 
phiques, Paris,  8vo,  1853,  p.  24,  No.  47. 

'  Bibliothiques  fran foists,  Paris,  1772- 
73,  Vol.  II,  p.  119. 

'  Memoires  sur  de  Bry,  p.  346,  note. 


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Bihliotheca  /Americana.  140 

O  7 ,     rESPUCCIUS  (AMERICUS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

M\t  \U\t  mum,m\t 

ixnmit  in  t{u\iu 

htn  m00i 

•  '^^T  ,''^l-W°o'^cut  which  adorns  the  title-page  of  the  second  edi- 
tion of  the  Dati  poem  {supra,  page  30)  en  contre  epreuve. 

*     4to,  sme  anno  aut  loco,  sixteen  unnumbered  leaves,  forty  lines 
in  a  full  page;    text   in  Roman  characters;  signatures  a.  ii 
a.  Ill  -f-  three  blanks ;  b.  i,  b.  ii,  b.  iii  -^.  three  blanks;  c.  i, 
c.  11  -f  two  blanks.     The  last  three  lines  on  the  verso  of  the 
last  leaf  read : 

Data  in  Lifbona  a  di  4.  di  ||  Septembre 
1504.  II  Seruitore  Amerigo  Vefpucci  in  Lif- 
bona. II 

On  the  verso  of  the  eighth  leaf  there  is  a  colophon  : 

C  Finifce  elprimo  Viaggio.  ||  ([  Comincio 
el  fecondo.  || 

On  the  top  of  the  recto  of  the  ninth  leaf,  a  rude  woodcut  repre- 
senting two  vessels  with  their  crews.  On  the  recto  of  the  twelfth 
leaf,  a  second  colophon  :  '•wcmu 

C  Finito  elfecondo  Viaggio.  ||  C  Comencia 
el  terzo.  || 

On  the  verso  of  the  same  twelfth  leaf,  a  woodcut  representing  a 
vessel  at  sea.     On  the  recto  of  the  fifteenth  leaf,  a  thirdTolopEon^ 

C  Quarto  Viaggio  || 

Beneath  which   a  woodcut  representing  a  vessel  entering  a  harbor 

adoT;:7hrt?tltteTiiL''  ^'^^'  ^^  '""'^  ^  ^^P-^'^°"  °^'^-  ^ 
(British  Museum.) 


1516. 


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150 


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1 516.        From  the  fact  that  the  present  was  printed  with  the 
.  same  type  as  the  Corsali  letter  of  Stephano  di  Carlo  da 

Pavia,  Florence,  15 16,  and  is  of  the  same  size  (but 
with  some  difference  in  the  texture  of  the  paper),  and 
that  a  copy  of  this  Corsali  letter  was  once  found  bound 
in  its  original  binding  with  this  VespucciuSj  we  ascribe  to 
the  latter  the  date  of  15 16.  It  is  this  work  which  we 
quote  {supra,  page  62)  under  the  title  of  Grenville  codex. 


"  Ouvrage  excessivement  rare,  qui,  m'a-t-on  assure,  ne  se  trouve 
point  a  la  bibliotheque  imperiale  de  France  [i8io]  Les  bibliographes 
n'en  font  point  mention  ;  il  n'a  ete  tire,  dit-on,  qu'a  dix  exemplaires 
pour  les  dix  souverains  de  I'Europe  [?]  J'en  ai  vu  un  chez  M.  I'abbe 
de  Billy,  amateur  tres-eclaire,  qui  possede  un  cabinet  infiniment 
curieux  a  Besan9on ;  cet  exemplaire,  bien  conserve,  est  superieure- 
ment  relie  en  maroquin  rouge  [like  the  Grenville  copy],  par  Bozerian  ; 
son  possesseur  le  croit  UNiquE.  La  derniere  lettre  de  Vespuce  est 
datee  du  4  Septembre  1504.  La  suivante  qui  termine  ce  livret,  est 
d'Andre  Corsali,'  adressee  a  Jules  de  Medicis.  Ce  Corsali,  lieu- 
tenant d'Amerique  Vespuce  [  ?  ]  prit  le  commandement  de  la  flotte 
apres  le  deces  de  celui-ci,  a  I'ile  Tercere  [  ?],  en  1514  [?].  Cette 
lettre  est  datee  de  1515,  et  elle  a  ete  imprimee,  ainsi  qu'il  est  dit  a  la 
fin,  le  II  decembre  de  15 16,  a  Florence,  par  lo.  Stephano  di  Carlo 
da  Pavia.  L'ouvrage  tout  entier  parait  avoir  ete  imprime  en  meme 
tems."     (Peignot'.  I 


Direct  refireticet : 


'  Repertoire,  page  139. 
Bibliotheca  Grenvilliana,  page  764. 
Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  vi,  No.  3848. 
Napione,  Appendix  to  the  Ragionamento,  pp.  107-11  5. 
Ebert,  Dictionary,  No.  23542. 
Ternaux,  Bibliotheque  Amiricaine,  No.  5. 
Brunet,  Vol.  V,  col.  1 1 54. 


'  It  is  scarcely  necessary  tu  add  that 
these  Corsali  letters  do  not  refer  in  any 
manner  to  America  ;  they  belong  ex- 
clusively to  the  Bibliotheque  Atiatique. 
Andrew  Corsali  may  have  known  Vespuc- 
cius,  as  he  was  also  a  Florentine  by  birth, 
and  in  the  employ  of  King  Emanuel  of 
Portugal,  but  he  never  visited  the  New 
World,  nor  did  he  ever  hold  the  position 
of  "  Lieutenant  d'Amerique  Vespuce." 
Corsali's  letters  are  addressed  to  Julian 
and  Laurent  de  Medicis,  but  describe  only 
the  East  Indies,  China,  Cuchin-China,  &c. 
The  only  copies  known,  we  believe,  are  in 


the  British  Museum,  and  as  we  happen  to 
have  a  faithful  transcript  of  one  of  them, 
we  beg  leave  to  insert  in  this  place  a 
literal  copy  of  the  title  : 

LETTERA     DI     ANDREA     CORSA  |{  LI     ALLU 
ILL.    PRINCIPE  II  ET   SIGNORE    LAV-  ||  RENTIO 
DE      ME    II    DICI      DVCA  ||    OVRBI-   ||     NO.    ||    EX 
INDIA. 
In  fint : 

Ex  India  quintodecimu  kl.  octob.  M.n. 
XVII.  II  r.  D.  111.  Ser.  An.  Corsalius. 

*^j*  4to  for  size,  signatures  a,  b,  c,  each 
in  eights,  d,  in  four;  which,  with  the 
title,  make  twenty- nine  leaves;  although 


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88.     MARTYR  (PETER)-mthin  a  border: 

loannes    ruffus    foroliuienfis    Archiepus 
Cofenti||n9:  legata9apo.  ad  lediore  de  orbe 
nouo.ll  Accipe  non  noti  praeclara  uolumina 
mundi  ||  Oceani :   &  magnas  nofcito  ledor 
opes.  II  Plurima  debetur  typhis  tibi  gratia  : 
gentes  ||  Ignotas :    &   aues   qui    uehis   orbe 
nouo.  II  Magna  quocj  autori   referenda  eft 
gratia  noftro  :   Qui  facit  haec  cunctis  regna 
uidenda  locis.  ||  Autor.  ||  Sifte  pedem  ledor  : 
breuibus  compada  libellis||  Hsc  lege:  prin- 
cipibus   uariis   de    cimocj    leoni  ||  Pontifici 
fummo  infcripta.  hie  noua  multa  uidebis.  || 
Oceani  magnas  terras :  uafta  squora  :   hn- 
guas  II  Hadenus  ignoftas:  atcg  aurea  fecula 
nofces :  ||  Et  gentes  nudas  expertes  feminis 
atri  :    Mortiferi  nummi  :    gemmifcj  aurocR 
feracem  ||  Torrentem  zonam  :  parcat  uene- 
randa  uetuftas.  || 

§t  n\t  mm  §mh%\\ 

Colophon  : 

Cura  &  diligentia  uiri  Celebris  Mamftri 
Antonii    Ne-  ||  brifTenfis  hiftoriciregii   fue- 


we  have  seen  it  stated  that  there  should 
be  thirty :  «  an  invaluable  blank  leaf" 
(which,  however,  we  cannot,  at  such  a 
distance,  connect  with  the  last  signature) 
being,  we  suppose,  that  great  Jeiideratum. 
The  text  is   in  Roman  characters,  with- 


out  catchwords.       It    is    the   other    let- 

Medic,  which  bears  Stephano  di  Car- 
os  colophon,  and  that  was  bound  with 
the  above  Italian  Vespuccius  in  the  He- 
oer  collection. 


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1 5 1 6.  runt  has  tres  protono  ||  tarii   Petri  martyris 

decades  Imprefls  in  ||  contubernio  Arnaldi 

Guillelmi  in  ||  Illuftri  oppido  carpetans 
pui  II  ciae  copluto  quod  uulgari  ||  ter  dicitur 
Alcala  pfe  ||  du  eft  nonis  No  ||  uebris  An.  || 
1516.* 

*^*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  sixty-two  unnumbered  leaves -f- one 
unnumbered  leaf-f  one  blank  +  three  leaves  for  the  yocabula 
barbara  +  sixteen  leaves  for  the  Legationis  Babilonicie.  Text 
in  Roman  characters. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

The  edition  of  the  first  decade  of  Peter  Martyr, 
printed  at  Seville  in  151 1  {supra.  No.  66),  had  been 
published,  as  it  seems,  contrary  to  his  wishes',  and  con- 
tained only  the  first  nine  books  of  the  first  decade  (the 
portion  which,  on  the  recto  of  the  forty-first  leaf,  bears 
the  title  of  Occean.  decadis  libri  Decimus,  is  only  a  short 
dissertation  De  superstitionibus  insularium  solutum  per  se 
libellum).  In  1508,  he  wrote  for  Mendoza  de  Tendilla, 
a  genuine  Lib.  x,  which  completes  the  first  decade 
in  the  edition  before  us,  while  the  xth  of  the  edition 
of  1511  is  added  to  the  ixth.  We  know  that  Pope 
Leo   X  was  so  charmed  with   Peter    Martyr's   Decade 


*  Anglici  :  John  RuAis  of  Forli,  Arch- 
bishop of  Cosenza,  apostolic  legate  to  the 
reader,  touching  the  new  world. 

Accept  these  exquisite  volumes  concern- 
ing the  new  world,  and  learn,  O  reader  ! 
of  the  great  treasures  of  the  Ocean.  The 
greatest  gratitude  is  due  to  the  pilot 
[Tii^vf  .'];  Thee  who  carriest  unknown  na- 
tions and  birds  to  the  new  world.  Great 
thanks  are  also  due  to  our  author,  who  shows 
all  those  kingdoms  in  their  places.  The 
Author.  Reader,  stop,  read  what  is  con- 
tained in  this  short  work,  inscribed  to 
different  princes,  and  to  Pope  Leo  X.  Here 
you  will  see  many  new  things  of  the  Ocean, 
great  countries,  vast  seas  ;  you  will  learn 
of  hitherto   unknown   languages,   and    of 


golden  ages  and  of  nations  free  from  the 
corrupting  influence  of  money  ;  of  the  tor- 
rid zone,  fertile  in  precious  stones  and 
gold,  respect  the  venerable  antiquity. 

Decades  of  the  new  world. 

By  the  care  and  industry  of  the  cele- 
brated master  Anthony  of  Nebris,  these 
three  decades  of  the  historian  and  pro- 
thonotary,  Peter  Martyr,  were  printed  in 
the  office  of  Arnold  William  in  the  cele- 
brated city,  which  is  commonly  called  Al- 
cala.    Finished,  November  9th,  1516. 

'  "  Duas  decades  addidi  primae  qua;  me 
inconsulto  praflis  fuit  impreHorum  expo- 
sita."  Epistle  to  Charles  V,  dated  Sep- 
tember 30th,  1 516,  in  the  present  collec- 
tion of  the  three  Decades. 


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that  he  read  it  to  his  sister  and  to  the  cardinals  "  after    I  CI 6. 
supper,^  Serena  fronte,   and   to  satiety,  until  late   in    the  ^ 
night,     and  are  not  surprised,   therefore,   to  learn  that 
this   enlightened   Pope  instructed   Bottrigari,   his   Em- 
hassador  to  the  Court  of  Spain,   to  request  the  inter- 
esting annalist  to  continue  his  Oceanics.      It  is  in  con- 
secjuence  of  this   request  that   the   second    decade  was 
written,   December  14th,  1514,  and  the  third,  partly  in 
March,  xs^s,  remitting  the  manuscript  to  the  printer 
only  on  the   14th  of  October,    1516,  owing  to  his  wish 
o   insert  the  news  which  had  just  been  brSught  to  him 
by  one  Roderick  Colmenares.     The  present  No    88   is 

decad«'"°"  ''  ""*''"''  '''''  '°"''^"'  '^^  ^'''  ^hree 

vol    V,  ^o.  284,9]   as  being  noticed  in  the  Catalogue  of  the  Collet 

^ion  to"ch"  1'  "'v'J   "  P^^'.^'y   '"'^  -^^'"^  book  af  this      Je  dedica! 
t.on  to  Charles  V.  be.ng  dated  from  Madrid,  pridie  kl.  Deto.  ,5,6  " 

( Bibliotheta  Grei.  ■■•ilUana.) 

It  would  prove   interesting  to  compare  these  three 
decades  with  the  letters  of  Peter  Martj),-,  which  treat  of 
the  New  World,  and  dated  to  the  year   1516,  for  the 
purpose  ot  ascertaining  whether  there' are  any  Variations 
in   the  statements  of  facts       Peter   Martyr    has    been 
charged  with  antedating  his  letters  for  the"  purpose  of 
acquiring   the  reputation    of  a  sagacious  seer  ;  ^but  as 
-according  to  Juan  Vergara'-our  author  wrote  with 
such  rapidity  that  he  had   frequently  been  seen  to  pen 
two  episdes  while  the  table  was  being  set,  he  mav    have 
given  different  versions  of  the  same  occurrences  ^ 

Direa  .,/>,.,«,.■  ,    T.knalx,  B,hlh,he^u,  Amcncain,,  No    ,8 

Brunet,  yol.  I,  col.   i<)2. 
Graesse,  Vol.  I,  pjge   ,2y 
Bihlh.htca  Grtnvilliana,  page-  26 
BMoihca  Htbiriana,  Part  1,  No.  5558 
Btblioiheca  Browniana,  No.  24. 

ter  No.  s6z,  page  j,o.  "«'  °)- ^"-  «/'«-/   Antonio,    Bihlhthrca    Hnpar.. 

'  '^^•^•',  Vol.  II,  page  372.  '^ 

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Pfalteriiim,  Hebr^-um,  Gr^cu, 
Arabicu,  &  Chald^u,  cu  tribus 
latinis  iterptatoibus  &  gloflis. 

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61K  bv  Kal  \;aAdoi«6v  ^eto,  rpiov  Ip 
HTfvduv  Xariv iKUiv  Kal  •yAway7/juaTtjv. 


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ImpreiTit  miro  ingenio,  Petrus  Paulus 
Porrus,  genuae  in  aedibus  Nicolai  lufti 
niani  Pauli,  praefidente  reipub.  genuenfi 


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pro  Sereniflimo  Franco^  Rege,  preftan  ||  ti   1516. 

viro  Odauiano   Fulgofo,  anno  chriftia  ||  ne      

falutis,  millefimo  quingentefimo  fexHtode- 
cimo  menfe.  Vllllbri. 

Colophon,  under  a  letter  P  on  each  side  of  an  onion: 

Petrus   Paulus  Porrus  Medio  ||  lanenlis, 
Taurini  degens.* 

V  ^°!.'.of°^.s.'ze,  but  the  signatures  read:  one  blank,  then  A  ii. 
Am  Ann,  A  ij.  then  five  blanks,  B,  Bii,  Biii,  Biiii,  then 
tour  blanks,  and  so  on  through  the  register,  which  does  not 
contain  a  single  folio  signature.  Title  one  leaf  +  four  leaves 
containing  an  epistle  from  Jacobus  Antiquarius  addressed  to 
Giustiniani,  dated  Milan,  viii  kalen.  aprilis  1516  ;  a  preface  bv 
Giustin.an,  addressed  to  Pope  Leo  X.  dated  Genoa.  C^/.  Aul 
1506  ;  which  preface  is  repeated  in  Hebrew,  Chaldean.  Greek, 
and  Arabic  Then  the  text  in  one  hundred  and  ninctv-nine 
unnumbered  leaves. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York,  Brooklyn,  Providence,  Owl's  Head, 
and  in  many  other  American  libraries.) 

Agostino,  or  Pantaleone'  Giustiniani,  was  born  in 
Genoa  in  1470.'  When  only  fourteen  years  of  age  he  was 
kidnapped,  notwithstanding  his  aristocratic  ptrentaee 
and  sent  to  Valencia,  in  Spain,  from  which  place  he  Re- 
turned to  Italy  ,n  1488,  to  join  the  order  of  the  Domini- 
cans. He  soon  acquired  an  extensive  reputation  for  his 
great  learning  especially  in  the  Oriental  languages,  which 
he  taught  until  he  was  made  Bishop  of  NebbiS,  in  Cor- 
sica, November  15th,  15,4..   At  the  request  of  Francis  I 


*  Anglici:  The  Hebrew  Psalter,  to- 
gether with  three  Latin  interpretations 
and  glosses. 

Printed  with  wonderful  skill  by  Peter- 
Paul-Porrus  of  Genoa,  in  the  house  of 
Nicholas  Justinian  Paulus,  under  the  ex- 
cellent Octavius  Fulgoso,  President  of  the 
Republic  of  Genoa  in  the  name  of  the 
most  illustrious  King  of  France.     In  the 


year  of  the  Christian  Salvation  ici6.  Oc- 
tober 9th.  Peter  Paul  Porrus  of  Milan, 
residing  at  Turin.  ' 

'  Zeno  in  FoNTANiNi,  Bibliotheca  hal- 
lana,  Vol.  11,  p.  231. 

^'  Ughelli,  Italia  Sacra,  Vol.  iv,  p.  4, , 
QUETIF  &   ECHARD,   ScHptore,  trdini, 
rradicatorum    recemit ,     Paris      i,,,,,. 
Vol.  II,  p.  56.  '    7        > 


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I  C  I  6.    who  had  lately  founded  the  literary  institution  since  so 
I  t'-iiuMMc  under  the  name  o\  doUege  de  France^  Giustiniani 

removed  to  Paris  to  fill  the  chair  of  Hebrew^  which  he 
occupied  four  or  five  years,  visiting,  occasionally,  Hol- 
land, where  he  acquired  the  personal  friendship  of  Eras- 
mus, and  England,  where  Henry  VHl  and  Thomas 
More  bestowed  upon  him  Hattering  marks  of  attention. 
He  died  before  1530'  or  in  15,16'',  at  sea,  but  whether 
by  the  hands  of  pirates"  or  by  shipwreck  is  not  known. 
Giustiniani  is  the  author  of  a  number  of  valuable  works", 
which  should  not  be  ascribed  to  the  Genoese  prelate  of 
the  same  name  mentioned  by  Soprani''. 

Benevolent,  patriotic,  and  disinterested,  Augustine 
Giustiniani  yet  suffered  persecutions  at  all  hands'".  De- 
voting all  his  energies,  means,  and  talents  to  the  prose- 
cution of  a  work  which  was  destined  to  redound  to  the 
credit  of  the  community  in  which  he  lived,  his  efforts 
were  neither  appreciated  nor  rewarded.  The  circum- 
stances connected  with  the  publication  of  Giustiniani's 
Polyglot  Psalter  are  fraught  with  wholesome  teachings. 
Prompted  by  a  desire  to  promote  learning  and  conscien- 
tious investigations,  Giustiniani,  after  elucidating  the 
texts  of  Job,  Plato,  Xenophon,  and  Maimonides,  con- 
centrated all  his  powers  on  a  laborious,  difficult,  but 
necessary  edition  of  King  David's  Psalter,  in  the  He- 
brew, Chaldean,  Greek,  Arabic  and  Latin  languages. 
It  was  the  initiatory  step  towards  the  first  publication 


*  Giustiniani  is  still  gratefully  remem- 
bered by  the  Paris  students  as  the  firn 
professor  appdinted  to  the  profi-.ssorship  of 
Hebrew  in  their  favorite  college.  But  our 
impression  is  that  Paolo  Paradisio,  other- 
wise called  Lt  Canosie,  received  the  tirst 
appointment.  (See  Goi'Jkt,  Mim.  siir  It 
Cotl'ege  de  France,  Vol.  I.)  The  Di'xh- 
nario  S.  Jfg/i  aut.  eccles.,  Venice,  Svo, 
1769,  Vol.  11,  p.  ^23,  states,  however, 
that  Giustiniani  was  the  first  incumbent. 

'  Vossius,  de  Hisiiricis  Latinis,  L\b.  Ill, 
p.  681. 

*  Michael  Giustiniani,  gli  Scriitori 
Liguri  [Rome,  4to,  1667],  p.  18,  quoted 


by  Bavie,  Diclionnaire,  Vol.  11,  page  906, 
note. 

'  Govio,  de  gli  Hvomi  Famisi,  p.  144. 
(We  must  apologise  for  quoting  so  fre- 
quently Paul  Jovius'  Eulogies  in  Orio'i 
version — V^enice,  limo,  1558, — but  we 
have  not  yet  succeeded  in  securing  for  con- 
stant use  a  copy  of  the  original.) 

"  TiRABoscHi,  Sioria  della  Lett.  Italiana, 
Vol.  VII,  pp.  344  and  4-;3. 

"  Strittori  della  Liguria ;  Genoa,  4to, 
1667,  p.  6. 

'"  The  Psalter  was  prohibited  and  ccn- 
tiscated  by  the  civil  (  ? )  authoritiei  of 
Genoa. 


M 


Bibliotheca    /fmericana.  157 

of  a  polyglot  edition  of  the  entire  Bible  printed  with     I  516' 

the  types  uelonging  to  each  version      In  a  community  

abandoned  to  the  lust  of  lucre,  it  is  scarcely  necessary  to 
say  that  the  undertaking  was  viewed  with  supine  indif- 
ference. Giustiniani  persevered,  but  there  were  ob- 
stacles which  it  was  beyond  his  power  to  surmount ; 
and  although  all  knew  that  he  wished  nothing  for 
himself,  his  appeals  remained  unheeded".  He  caused 
two  thousand  copies  of  the  Psalter  to  be  printed  on 
paper,  and  fifty  on  vellum".  Not  one  fourth  of  the 
edition  found  purchasers".  His  exertions,  his  sacrifices, 
his  solicitude  even,  so  far  from  commanding  respect, 
were  treated  with  taunts  and  sarcasm'*.  Centuries  nave 
now  elapsed ;  and  although  the  egotism  and  bigotry 
exhibited  by  Giustiniani's  contemporaries  still  find  apol- 
ogists and  imitators,  his  polyglot  Psalter  remains — a 
great  monument  of  his  learning,  perseverance,  and 
devotion  ! 

It  is  this  Psalter  which  entitles  the  unfortunate  Bishop 
of  Nebbio  to  a  place  in  our  American  gallery.    Remem- 


.6, 


I 


on- 


"  Two  scholars,  Jacob  Furnius  and 
Baptista  Cigala,  aided  him,  however,  to 
the  extent  u(  their  abilities.  See  note  to 
Psalm  i.xxviii.  We  feel  tempted  to 
think  that  the  well-known  verses  of"  Vir- 
gil :  •*  Non  ignara  malt  mrttrii  tuccurrere 
diiiO,"  may  be  quoted  as  an  explanation 
for  the  prortered  assistance.  Withal,  let 
it  be  said  that  Giustiniani  was  not  com- 
pelled to  go  begging  from  door  to  door, 
almost  always  in  vain,  for  permission  to 
consult  books  which  remained  un'  uched 
and  uncut  in  the  hands  of  their  owners. 
One  of  his  ancestors,  Andreolo  Giustiniani, 
had  left  him  a  valuable  library,  which  he 
afterwards  bequeathed  to  the  city  of  Ge- 
noa.    It  has  since  disappeared. 

"  Lelong,  Diuourt  hitloritjuf  tur  In 
Bibles  polyg/ollei  f  Paris,  l»mo,  1713, 
pp.  ]l  and  319 

"  The  following  passage  is  really  touch- 
ing ; 

"  Feci  stampar  in  Genoa  alle  mie  spese 
con  quel  trauaglio,  &  c6  quella  spesa,  che 
ogni  literate  puo  giudicare  doa  millia  vol- 


umi  del  Dauidico  psalterio  in  le  predette 
cinque  lingue,  paredomi  di  questa  opera 
doner  acquistar  gran  laude  fi  no  mediocre 
quadagno,  il  quale  pensauo  di  esporre  en 
la  suuentione  di  certi  miei  parcnti  ch'erano 
bisognosi,  crcdendomi  sempre  che  I'opcra 
douessi  haucre  assai  grande  vscita,  Ic  che  i 
prelati  richi,  o  i  Principi  si  douessrro  mo- 
uere  Sc  mi  douessero  aggiutare  i  la  spesa  di 
fare  imprimere  il  restante  della  biblia  in 
quella  varieta  di  lingue,  ma  la  credulita 
mia  resto  ingannata,  p  che  I'opera  fu  da 
ciascaduno  laudata,  ma  lassata  riposare  ie 
dormire,  p  che  a  pena  si  sono  venduti  la 
quarta  parte  de  i  libri.  come  che  I'opera 
sia  p  valent'huomini,  Sc  p  ingegni  eleuati, 
che  sono  al  mondo  rari,  &  pochi,  &  c6 
stento  puoti  ricauare  i  denari,  ch'  aueua 
posto  in  la  stapa,  che  furono  bona  quan- 
tita,  p  che  oltra  i  dua  millia  volumi  sta- 
pati  in  papero,  ne  feci  imprimere  cinquata 
in  carte  vitelline,  ic  mandai  di  essi  libri  a 
tutti  i  Re  del  mondo,  cosi  Christiani  come 
pagani."  See  Cailigalisiimi  Annali  de  la 
Republica  di  Genoa  (infra),  page  ccxxiv. 


158 


Bibliotheca    Americana. 


ICl6.    bering    that    Christopher    Columbus    frequently    pro- 

claimed  that  he  had  been  chosen  by  God  to  exemplify 

the  thought  or  prophecy  expressed  in  verse  4  of  Psalm 
xrx  : 

Laudatoria  Dauidis. 
^ijujpiciunt  celos  enarrant 
gloriam  DEI^  £ff  opera  manuum  eius 
annunciant  qui  Jufpiciunt  inaera, 

he  inserted  in  the  margin,  close  to  the  verse,  a  lengthy 
biography  of  the  bold  navigator,  his  countryman  and 
contemporary. 

This  untimely  note,  which  may  have  been  the  cause 
of  the  persecutions  suffered  by  our  author,  is  frequently 
quoted.  Fernando  Columbus  devotes  an  entire  chapter 
to  a  refutation  of  what  he  mildly  terms''  the  "twelve 
lies  uttered  by  Giustiniani." 

The  text  of  the  note  has  been  republished  by  Von 
Murr"^,  and,  with  a  translation,  in  the  Notes  on  Colum- 
bus. There  is  an  English  version  in  the  Christian  Ex- 
aminer'', and,  we  believe,  in  the  N.  T.  Historical  Mag- 
azine. 


1 


Direct  reftrtKcrs :  |    GisNiR,  Bihliothtca  uni'versalh,  p.ige  91. 

I    Maittaire,  /Innales  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  u,  Part  I,  pagfS  276-7. 
I    Panzer,  ./Innales  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  vii,  page  63. 
Lelong,  Bihliolheca  Sacra,  Part  i.  page  400. 
FabrI'  us,  Bihli(,theca  Kat.  Med.  et  Inf.,  Vol.  IV,  pages  610-14. 
AuniFFRFni,  Bihiiolheca  Camnata,  Vol.   1,  page  625. 
Van  Praet,  Catalogue  drs  li^vres  sur  velin,  Vol.  r,  page  8,  No.  4. 
Bihliothecj  Bar/owiana,  — . 
Bihliotheca  Breivortiana,  — . 

La  V'alliere  Catalogue,  Vol.  1,  page  3,  No.  7  ;  McCarthy  Cata- 
logue, Vol.  I,  page  2,  No.  3;  Bihliotheca  Susiexiana,  \o\.  i. 
Part  11,  pages  107-112;  and  Bihliotheca  Broivniana,  No.  25, 
all  for  copies  printed  on  vellum. 


'*  See  the  indecorous  remarks  otjovius,  '"  Histoire    Diplomatique    du     :kevaher 

as  noticed  by  Bavle,  loc  cit.  Bchaim^  pp  150-156. 

"  ••  dodicie  hugie"   Hislorie  deir/immi-  "  Boston,  for  September,  1858. 
raglio  (ed.  of"  I57l)'  ^'^V-  "•  '^°'-  i- 


■ 


^ 


Bibliotheca    Americana.  j  rg 

89.      SABELUCO    ^MARK-ANT.)-^<    K^^{od\r£      hiftoria-      I  IT  I  7 

rum  Enneadum  ab  orbe  cond.  P.  I  quinque  compl.  En- 
neades,  praem.  earundem  repertoriis  audis  et  recogn. 
ab  Afcenfio  cum  auth.  epitomis.  In  aedd.  Afcens  ad 
nonas  Novbr.  a.  1516.  in-fol.-Pofterior  pars  ejd.  Raps, 
hift.  cont.  fex  enneades  relig.  c.  earundem  repertoriis  et 
epitomis.  Rapfodia  hiftor.  ab  o.  cond.  in  a.  ufque  fal 
noftraeM.D.IIII  optatum  iterum  recepit  finem  in 
aedd.  Afcens,  ad  Idus  Febr.  15 17.  in-foJ." 

(GnAtsst',) 

90.  MONTALBODuo  iFR.  !>£)-<' Paef,  nouamente  retrou- 
ati  per  ||  la  Nauigatione  di  Spagna  in  Calicut.  Et  da 
Alberlltutio  [.?]  Vefputio  Fiorentino  intitulato  Mon  || 
do  Nouo:  Nouamente  ImprefTall  [a/.;,^.«]  C  Stampara 
m  Venetia  per  Zorzi  de  Rufconi  milla-  ||  nefe  •  Nel 
M.ccccc.xyii.  a  di.  xyiii.  Agofto.  ||  124  unnumbered  leaves, 
with  woodcut  of  the  City  of  Venice  on  the  title  ;  the  reverse 
of  the  last  leaf  blank ;  signatures  A  in  four,  b  to  q  in 
eights!'  ^ 

(Historical  Nuggets''.) 


9'.    Pomponius  Mela.  ||  Ivlivs  Solinvs.  || 
Itinerarium    Antonini    Avg.  ||  Vibivs.  i|  P 
Vidtor  de  regionibus  urbis  Roma^.  ||  Dimv- 
Jus  Afer  de  fttu  or  bis  Prefciano  Inter  brete. 

Colophon :  ' 

VENETIISIN  AEDIBUSiiALDI,  ET  ANDREAE  ISOCFRI 
MENSE  OCTOBRI  M.D.XVIII.  11*  ^' 


I518. 


'   Vol.  VI,  p.  20I 


Anphi  :  Pomponius  :ieU,  Julius  So- 


'Page    752,   No.    1747,   -Jad   BRtNtr      liiMKr"       "'"-'"'"'"'''''=''•  J"""^  So- 
Vol.  V,  col.  1,58  '*^  BKi-Nir.     Inius;  Itinerary  ot   Antoni.ius    Aug    Vi- 

5  b.us.     P.    Victor   on    the   vicinity  of  the 


i6o  Bibliotheca   Americana. 

J  ei8,         *#*  8^°'  '"'°   hundred  and  thirty-three  numbered  leaves  +  three 
J        *  unnumbered :  no  mao. 


unnumbered ;  no  map. 

(British  Museum.) 

"  Ed.  prima  collect." 

(Kloss  Catalogue.) 

We  insert  the  above  solely  on  the  authority  of  Bisnop 
Kennett's  valuable  Bibliotheca  America  Primordia.  We 
failed  to  discover  in  this  edition  of  Pomponius  Mela  >^ 

and  its  suite  of  the  "  lesser  geographers"  anything  re-  '^ 

lating  to  America.  Although  Bishop  Kennett  cites  the 
Aldine  edition,  we  are  of  opinion  that  he  had  in  view 
the  following,  which  is  of  the  same  date,  and  contains 
the  well-known  epistle  of  Vadianus  to  Agricola. 


92.     POMPONIUS  MELA— Within  a  highly  ornamented  border: 

POMPONII  MELAE  Hif-||pani,  Libii 
de  fitu  orbis  tres,  ||  adiedlis  lOachimi  VA- 
diani  ||  Heluetii  in  eofdem  Scho-  ||  liis  : 
Addita  quoc^  in  Ge-  ||  ographia  ||  Cate- 
cheli :  II  &  Epiftola  Vadia-  ||  ni  ad  Agrico- 
la II  digna  le- 1|  dtu.  ||  Cum  Indice  fummatim  || 
omnia  compledete.  || 

Mn  lu  II  (rjTtt^  |rt:0xima  ttxtmt^  im- 
jrttoto*  II 

city  of  Rome  ;  Dionysius  Afer,  on  the  site     Venice,  in  the  house  of  Aldus  and  An-  -% 

of  the   world;    translated    by    Priscianus.     dreas,  his  father-in-law,  Oct.,  1 518. 


'SI 


Mj^^ 


Bibliotheca    Americana.  \  6 1 

Colophon  on  verso  of  the  last  leaf : 

IMPRESSVS  EST  POMPONIVS||  VIENNAE 
PANNONIAE,  EXPENSIS  LVCAE  ALAXTSE|| 
CIVIS  ET  BIBLIOPOLAE  VIENNENSIS,  PER|| 
lOANNEM  SINGRENIVM  EX  OE.  ||  TING 
BAIOARIAE  .  MENSE  ||  MAIO,   ANNI.  11  M  D 

xyiii.  II* 

Then  large  printer's  mark,  and  LVCAE  ALANTSE. 

***  f°''j°'  j"'^  °"\ 'eaf  +  twenty-two  unnumbered  leaves  +  one 
hundred  and  thirty-two  numbered  leaves  +  one  unnumbered, 
with  colophon  on  the  verso.     No  map, 

^Private  Library,  New  York.) 

LIB.  PROHIB    &  EXPURG'. 
See  on  verso  of  folio  124,  and  recto  of  128,  in  the 
epistle  of  Vadianus  to  Agricola,  the  passage  relating  to 
America :  '^        o  & 

"...  nondimeno  sembia  che  il  l^adiano,  celebre  pe'suoi  Comenti 
a  Pompomus  Mela   sia  stato  il  prime  a  chiamare  il  Coltinente  OuLhn 

<iu  Tcperiam.        (Cancellieri'.)  •'^ 

"JoACH  Vadianus.  Suisse  de  S.  Gal.  mort  en  icc,  fstatis  i3rv.»l 
Monsieur  Vossius  le  lils  dit  [/>,-./.,.  ^„  Mel.  G^V./ que  es  Re^ 
marques  que  cet  homme  a  faites  sur  Pomponius  A/./-.1entemla  chariTe" 

Direa  reference,  ;  (  PA^^.R,  ^„,,/„  Tyfo^^.,  Vol.  ,x,  page  37 

j  Denis,  men,  Buc>.druckerge,chich,e,-f:s^:\%6-i. 
(.  tjRAEssE,  Vol.  V,  page  401. 


1518. 


*  Anglice  :  Three  books  of  Pomponius 
Mela  the  Spaniard,  on  the  site  of  the 
earth,  together  with  the  scholia  [annota- 
tions] of  Joachim  Vadianus,  a  Swiss,  and 
also  the  guiJe  to  the  geography,  and  let- 
ter of  Vadianus  to  Agricola,  worthy  of 
heing  read,  with  an  inJex,  containing,  in  a 
concise  form,  everything.  It  is  provided 
by  Imperial  privilege  that  this  work  can- 


21 


not  be  printed  within  the  next  six  year. 
Pomponius  is  printed  at  Vienna  in  Austria.' 
tor  Lucas  Alantse,  by  John  Singreniu,  of 
Oettingen  m  Bavaria,  May,  1518. 

'   Index  Librorum  Proiiiiiorum ,   Mad- 
rid, fol.,  1667;  I.  C/ais..  p.  557. 

'  Dissertazhni,  p.  46. 

'  Vossius,  De  Natura  Artium,  p.  148. 
Jugemenu  det  Savants,  Vol.  11.  p.  4.6 


^wrrvw" 


162  Bibliotheca  Americana.  * 

I  ^  I  8.  g^.     DlONrSlUS  PERIEGETES— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 


^itu0  <»rbt0  piiioniflj  Huf- 
f0  mx  II  ma  int^  rprdf . « 

Then  woodcut  of  a  cardiral's  arms  in  a  border. 

Colophon  : 

VIENNE  II  (ttufpittianuis  neuos  r  bcrtucag 
fuftulit  II  SlHintcrturger  impremt  anno  natixhiiill 

(natibiir  ?) 

*^*  4to,  twenty-six  leaves,  text  in  Roman  characters. 

(British  Museum.) 

On  the  reverse  of  the  title  there  is  an  address  contain- 
ing the  following  slight  allusions  to  the  Oceanic  dis- 
coveries : 

"  Tfi  pl'ima  feculo  nto  fiit  &  inueta  || 
loca  prius  ignota  &  a  fcriptorib^  uetuftifTi- 
mis  negle/  ||  da  :  q  prope  die  tuae  R.  P. 
mitta. 

As  to  the  work  itself  it  is  only  Rufus  Festus'  Latin 
paraphrase  of  the  well-known  hexametrical  description 
of  the  earth,  written  originally  in  Greek  by  Dionysius 
Periegetes,  Lybicus  or  Africanus,  toward  the  latter 
part  of  the  third  century. 


Direct  references :  f  Hoffmann,  Bibliogr.  Lexicon,  Vol.  11,  page  106. 
\  Brunet,  Manuel,  Vol.  11,  col.  751. 


'  See  Denis,  H^ieni  Buchdruckergeschichte,  p.  19,  No.  10. 


ijt.  'i|  J^WWI  <l  *WfiiP'ii.^^i.'W|,» 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  163 

94.  MONTALBODDo  (FR.  DEy-Paefi     nouamentc   1519. 
retrouati.  &  Nouo  Modo  da  Alberico  Vef- 
putio  Flo-  II  retino  intitulato.  || 

Then  vignette  representing  the  king  receiving  Vespuccius. 

C  Stampato  in  Milano  con  la  impenfa 
de  lo.  lacobo  &  fratelli  da  ||  Lignano  :  & 
diligente  cura  &  induftria  de  loanne  An- 
gelo  fcinzen  ||  zeler:  nel.  Mccccc.xix.  a  di. 
V.  de  Mazo.  II 


* 


P. 


Sm.  4to,  title  one  leaf  +  three   preliminary  leaves  +  eighty 
unnumbered  leaves  for  the  text,  which  is  in  Roman  characters. 

(Private  Library,  Providence.) 

This  edition  seems  to  be  the  best  known,  as  it  is 
almost  exclusively  quoted  by  the  early  authors,  who 
frequently  ascribe  the  work  to  J.  M.  Angiolelo',  and 
even  to  Vespuccius'. 

"  Level,  porte  dans  le  catalogue  de  Floncel   fParis.  177^1    No 
S+27.  sous  le  t.tre  de  Prima  navigatione  .  .  .  Milano,  .5.9.  est  toui 

quT:7  p^iLv' "''""  ''  '^  ''^"^""  ''•"°"'  ''  ■'  -nq-it  fes 

Direct  referemes:  {  Lkon  Pinelo,  Epiiome,  page  131. 

\    Havm,  Bihliotheca  Italiana,  Vol.  i,  page  179,  No.  g 
I    Camus.  M.moire  tur  Dc  Bry,  pages  6  and  Jc 

Navarrete,  Colecckn,  Vol.  in,  page  188. 

Ternaux,  No.  21. 
"  Brunet,  Vol.  V,  col.  1 158. 

La  Valliere  Catalogue,  No.  4541. 

Historical  Nuggets,  No.  2748. 

Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  No.  28 

^'fvt'fr  "''"ZT'   ^'"  "■''  ^°-    599.  in  describing  the  Dal- 
rj^mple  copy,  adds  a  curmus,  although  very  common  memoran- 

"  In  the  old  wrapper,  -----.......  cj 

1812,  Hering,  binding,  washing,  and  sizing,      2.  7!'  o.  ' 


£2.  8.   6.' 


Pinwo-Barcia,  col.  907.         «  Lion  Pin.lo,  /»<-.  «>.,  p.  6a. 


tf    IHIllli 


I  11  laMVii  I  fwjpiiL'      (w^fw 


!if^ 


164  Bibliotheca    Americana. 

1^19.  g^.     srOBNICZ/i  (JOHN  DE)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

Cafmagrapbiam  (wxi  \\ 

longitudinibus  &  latitudinibus  regionum 
&  II  ciuitatum  celebriorium  ||  C  Epitome 
Europe  Eneae  Siluij.  ||  C  Situs  &  diftindio 
partium  totius  Aafiae  per  brachia  Tauri 
mon/  II  tio  ex  Afia  Pij  fecudi  ||  C  Particu- 
lalior  minoris  Afiae  defcriptio  ex  eiufdem 
Pij  alia.  II C  Sirie  compendiofa  defcriptio 
ex  Ifidoro.  ||  C  Africe  breuis  defcriptio  ex 
Paulo  Orofio.  ||  ([  Terrae  fadti  &  urbis 
Hierufalem  apertior  :  fratris  Anf-  ||  helmi' 
ordinis  Minorum  de  obferuantia.  || 

([  Magifter  Paulus  Crofnenlis.  Ledori 
Studiofo.  II  Qui  freta,  qui  frontes  populos 
ac  moenia  colles  ||  Quic^  cupias  uafti  nofure 
regna  foli  ||  Hue  praecor  hue  uultum  paulif- 
per  uerte  benignam  ||  Exiguumcp  legas  can- 
dide  ledor  opus  ||  Omnia  quo  magni  clau- 
duntur  climata  mundi  ||  Quodc^  ponet 
uariis  terra  rotunda  locis  ||  Quo  populos 
urbes  mirabere  flumina  montes  ||  Et  qua 
funt  oculis  non  bene  uifa  tuis  ||  Quo  Pto- 
lomei  fubito  (mihi  crede)  uidibis  ||  Et  re- 

'  See  infra,  p.  1 66,  note  i. 


-^fPWP-"M>«Wi|P- 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  165 

leges    fparfim    grandia    fcripta    libri  ||  Et   15 19. 

quod  mille  alii  dodi  fcripfere  libellis||  Hoc ^ 

paruo  inuenies  confpiciesc^  libro  ||  DIS- 
TICHON  li  Afpice  quam  paruo  ledor 
lludiofe  libello  ||  Claufa  fit  immenfi  ma- 
china  magna  poli.  || 

Colophon  : 

ImprefTum  Cracouiae  per  Hieronymum 
Viaorem  ||  Calcographum.  Anno  falutis 
humanae.  Mille/ 1|  fimo  quingentefimo  de- 
cimo  nono.  Deci/  |i  mo  feptimo  kalendas 
Maii.  II 

V  fo,  two  r-eliminary  leaves,  including  the   title,  +  forty-four 
leaves.     No  map  or  maps. 

(British  Museum.) 

On  the  verso  of  the  title,  in  the  Dedication  inscribed  : 
C  Reuerendifftmo  in  Chrijli  patri  ^  Domino  loanni  dei 

gracta  hpijcopo  Pojnanienfi  Joannes  de  Stobnicza.    Salutem 

dtctt, 

There  is  the  following  : 

Et  ne  foli  Ptolomeo  laborafTem,  curaui 
etiam  notas  face  requafdam  partes  terrce 
ipfi  Ptolomeo  alijfcj  uetuftioribus  ignotas 
q  Americi  Vefputij  alio^  r^  luftratione  ad 
noftra  noticia  puenere. 

Upon  the  verso  of  folio  5,  in  the  chapter  De  Meridi- 
.   ants  Stobnicza  speaks  of  the  discovery  by  Vespuccius  of 
parts  of  the  earth  unknown  to  Ptolemy/ and  adds  : 

"  Similitu  in  occafu   ultra  Affricam   & 
Europa  magna  ps  terroe  quam  ab  Americo 


1 66 


Bibliotheca    Americana. 


1 519.  ei^  reptore  america  vocai,  uulgo  aut  nouus 
mundus  dicit,"  &c. 

See  also  on  the  reverse  of  the  folio  7,  in  the  ninth 
chapter,  what  seems  to  be  a  repetition  of  the  famous 
passage  in  the  St.  Die  dsmographia : 

"  Non  folu  aut  pdid^  tres  ptes  nuc  funt 
latius  luftrate,  veru  &  alia  quarta  pars  ab 
Americo  Vefputio  fagacis  ingenii  viro, 
inuenta  eft,  qua  ab  ipo  Americo  eius  inu- 
entor  amerigem  quasi  americi  terrain  fiue 
america  appellari  volunt,  cui  latitude  eft 
fub  tota  torrida  roua,"  8cc. 

Since  our  No.  69  was  in  print  we  have  discovered 
the  following  note  in  Meusel' : 

"  ANSELMi,  ordinis  Minorum  de  Observantia,  apertior  descriptio 
tcrrae  sanctae  et  urbis  Hierusalem  (facta  1509)  ;  edita  una  cum  Pto- 
lemaei  Cosmographia,  a  loan  de  Stobnicza.  Cracoviae  f.  a  ( circa 
1  J I  )  )  4. 

tiircci  referemti:  (  Vossius,  lie  Natura  Artium,  Lib.  HI,  page  148. 

i  Pinelo-Barcia,  Epitome,  col.  1227,  seems  to  refer  to  a  reprint  of 
(      Ptolemy  itself,  and  not  to  a  mere  introduction. 


q6.  albertini  {FRANCIS  de)-^^  OT^\x(c\x\um  de  mira- 
bilibus  novae  &  veteris  Urbis  Roma:  induftria  &  im- 
penfa  THOM^^  WOLFF"  Chalcographiee  gnari  exara- 
tum  nuper.  j\.."'  ex  propria  OJficina  Urbis  Basileae.  15 19" 

(Maittaire'.) 
"  Ed.  III."      (Kloss  Catalogue'.) 


•  Bibliiiheca  Historica,  Vol.  I,  Part  II, 
p.  81,  referring  to  "  Caniiii  Lcctt.  antiqq. 
[Tkeuiurus  monument,  eccletiast.  Amsterd. 
4to,  1725?],  T.  IV.  p.  776.  edit.  Bas- 
nagii,"  and  "  Ianozki  -von  der  Zalutkischen 
Bibl.  [Dresden  8 vo,  1747],  T.  11.  p.  124." 
The  reader  who  has  access  to  Bononia, 
Biblioth.  Scriftor.  Ordinit  S.  Francitc., 
Venice,  fol.,   1747  or  to  Bove«o,  Anna- 


Hum,  Lyons,  fols.  1632-76,  will  perhaps 
find  some  additional  details  under  the  head 
of  Anselmus  or  Polonia.  Vossius  (de  Hit- 
tor.  Latin.  Lib.  in,  p.  648)  mentions  An- 
selm,  but  does  not  state  that  he  ever  edited 
Ptolemy's  Coimographia. 

'  Annalei  Typogr.,  Vol.  il,  Part  i,  p. 
335,  and  Panzer,  Vol.  vi,  p.  116. 

•  Page  7,  No.  71. 


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97.    ENCISO  (M.  F.  DEy-Under  a  large  sphere  held  by  a  hand: 

Suma  He  grograptia  q  lltrata  Ire  fotras  la»  par= 
tiUas  r  prouin- 1|  cias  Uel  munlro :  en  efpecial  tre  las 
inUi-  II  as.  r  ttata  largam^te  trel  arte  tiel  mare  II  ar : 
Juntamfte  con  la  efpijera  en  romare:  con  el  regb 
mifto  Ijel  3ol  r  nel  norte :  nue  II  uamente  ijerfja.  II 
ilSTon  preuilegio  real.  || 

Ferso  of  the  title-page: 

IreuUegioreal.  ||  m  roj.  ||  por  pato  por  parte 
Die  bos  el  f)acf)iller  Hdartin  ferndliet  tre  ||  enrifo  al- 
BuaHl  mapcr  Ue  rartilla  trel  oro  me  fue  fecf)a  rela= 
cia  II  iejienlro  q  nos  aueps  f)eri)o  bn  liftro  tre  eofmo- 

^t^^J\ #eci)a  en  la 

ciulralr  Ue  laragoja  a  rinro  Irias  Jrel  mes  ire  fette  || 
bre  ire  mil  r  qninictos  r  trejioff)o  anos.    |?o  el  rep 
Por  mantralro  irel  II  rei).    (ffaftaneira.  || 

Colophon : 

jFue  impreffa  cnia  nobiUmma  x  muj)  leal  duirair 
Je  3cuilla  por  Ja-  il  cobo  croberger  aletiia  en  el  anc 
B  la  encarnacion  tre  nueftro  feftor.  II  tre  mil  r  qumb 
entos  r  triej  r  nueiie.  ||* 


1519. 


.«.) 


\*  Folio;  title  one  leaf+  seventy-five  unnumbered  1 
in  Cjothic. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  Vork  and   Providence.) 


eaves  ;   text 


*  Anglici  :  Compendium  of  Geography, 
which  treats  of  all  the  parts  and  regions 
of  the  world,  and  especially  of  the  Indies; 
also  at  length  of  the  art  of  navigation  and 
of  the  sphere  in  the  vernacular  [language], 
together  with  the  regulation  of  the  Sun 
and  North.  Xewly  composed.  With  Royal 
Privilege. 

Royal  Privilege.    The  King.    Whereas 


you,  the  Bachelor,  Martin  Fernandez  de 
t^ncxzo,  Alguaail  Mayor  of  the  Golden 
tastil,  have  mformed  us  that  you  have 
made  tor  us  a  book  on  cosmography 
iZ  l\h''V-'-  °^„Saragossa,  Sept.  5th; 
r  , ',  '.  5'"^-  ^y  °"^"  "f  ''"=  king. 
Castafieda.  Was  printed  in  the  very  noble 
and  loyal  c.ty  of  Seville,  by  James  Crom- 
berger,  a  German,  A.  D.  1519. 


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I  C  I  Q,        "  Apparently  the  first  book  printed  in  Spanish  relating  to  America  ; 
^^^.^—.—-^  — unknown  to  Robertson.     Enciso  having  gained  a  considerable  sum 
"  in  St.  Domingo  by  practicing  law,  was  induced  by  Ojeda  to  join  him 

in  an  expedition  of  discovery  and  conquest  to  the  continent  of  Amer- 
ica. After  suffering  great  hardships  and  hairbreadth  escapes,  which 
are  related  by  Herrera,  he  returned  to  Spain,  and  published  this  work 
•  for  the  instruction  of  Charles  V.  The  account  of  America  is  prin- 
cipally from  his  own  observations." 

(Rich'.  I 

We  must  add  that  Martin  Fernandez  de  Enciso  first 
came  to  the  New  World  with  Rodrigo  de  Bastidas*,  was 
Alguazil  Mayor  of  the  Golden  Castil,  and  the  owner 
of  the  vessel  as  well  as  the  planner  of  the  expedition  in 
which  Vasco  Nui'^ez  de  Balboa'  acquired  so  much  fame. 
A  great  hydrographer  and  explorer,  his  work  is  invalu- 
able for  the  early  geographical  history  of  this  continent^ 

Speaking  of  the  supposed  edition  of  1482,  mentioned 
in  Spicilegium  veter.  Secul.  xv.  edit.,  Mendez  is  very  posi- 
tive': "  Dudo  6  niego  que  haya  tal  edicion,  pues  segun 
D.  Nicolas  Antonio,  no  pudo  alcanzar  el  Autor  a  este 
tiempo." 

Judging  from  the  following  passage'',  Enciso  wrote  a 
disquisition,  which  entitles  him  to  a  place  side  by  side 
with  Las  Casas',  Francis  of  Vittoria",  Julian  Garces', 
and  D.  de  Avendaflo'°,  or  perhaps  only  with  J.  Gines 
de  Sepulveda"  : 

"  Escribio  Enciso  un  papel  muy  curioso  sobre  si  los  conquista- 
dores  espanoles  podian  tener  y  poseer  indios  encomendados,  contra 


.4 


'  Bibliotheca  Americana  Velus,  No.  4. 
'  Herrera,  Dec.  I,  Lib.  vii,  cap.  XI. 

*  Navarrete,  Disertacion  sobre  !a  Hist, 
it  la  Nautica  i  Madrid,  4to,  1846,  page 
•  46. 

*  Humboldt,  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  IV, 
p.  306;  and  De  la  RoiyiETTE  in  Nowv. 
/Innales  Jes  Voyages,  Vol.  IV,  p.  5. 

'  T^yf''£''''J'''  EspaHola ;  Madrid,  4to, 
1796,  Vol.  I,  p.  170. 

*  Navarrete,  he.  cit.,  p.  147. 

'  1°.  BreuiJJima  relacion ;  Seville,  4to, 
1552,  50  11.  2°  Lo  que  se  sigue  es  vn  fe- 
Jafo  ;  id.,  4  11.  3°  Aqui  se  contiene  una 
di sputa ;  id.,  61  II.  4°  Aqui  se  contienen 
treynta  frofosiciwes;    id.,  10   11.     5°  Este 


es  un  tratado ;  id.,  36  11.  6°  Enire  los 
remedios ;  id.,  53  11.  7°  Aqui  se  contienen 
unos  auisosf  id.,  |611.  8°  Tratado  comfri- 
batoria;  id.,  1553,  80  11.  9°  Princijia 
qued.  ex  quibus.  proced  ;  id.,  10  11. 
10°  ResolucionaizduJas,  MS.  11°  Singul. 
tractatus,  MS. 

'  De  Indis  et  jure  Belli,  in  Tieo/.  Relec- 
tionesf   8vo,  1565. 

'  Letter  to  Paul  III,  in  Padilla,  His- 
loria  de  lajundacion  de  Santiago ;  Madrid, 
fo\.  1596. 

"•  Tiesaurusindicusf  Antwerp, fol.  1668. 

"  Apologia  pro  libra  de  justis  belli 
eausit  contra  Indos   suscepti }    Rome,  8va, 

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los  frailes  dominicos  que  decian  que  no,  y  se  opusieron  al  despacho 
de  la  expedic.on  de  Pedrarias  Davila,  so  pretexto  de  quel  cl  Rev  no 
podia  enviar  a  hacer  tales  conquistas." 


Direct  reftiencei ; 


I-EON    PiNILO     £j»,>o,«,p.    ,7,,,„J   PiNELO-BARClA,  Col.    I ITO. 

Antonio,  B.hlmhca  Hhpania  No-va,  Vol.  .,,  page  loi. 

Bihliclheij  liehenana,  Vol.  vi,  No.  1525. 

Bihlioi/ieca  Browniana,  page  9,  No.  17, 

'I'ernaux,  No.  20. 

Bhunet,  Vol.  11,  col.  973. 

Graesse,  Vol.  II,  page  473. 


98.    /'^/?n/A.i/^c^/)/^^iTlNERARIO  II  DE     LV- 
DOVICO   DEllVARTHEMA   BOLOGNESE  ||  ncl- 

lo  Egitto,  nella  Soria,  nella  Arabia  de  || 
fetta,  &'  felice,  &  nella  Perfia,  ||  nella  India, 
&  nella  Ethyopia  ||  Le  fede  el  viuere/  & 
coftumi  delle  pre/ 1|  late  Prouincie.  ||  et  al 
PRESENTE  AGioNTovi  ||  alcune  Ifok  nuoua- 
mente  li  trouate.  II 


Then  large  woodcut,  with  the  in 

I.HVOM.   FASST. 


SCriptlOn    BIBELLO.    SENZA.     DIME. 


Recto  of/eafig: 

C  Qui  iinifTe  lo  Itinerario  de  Llidouico 
de  II  Varthema  Bolognefe/  de  li  paefi  & 
Ifole  II  la  Fede  el  viuere  &  coftumi  loro.  || 
Nuouamente  per  lui  vifti  ||  in  piu  parte. 

C  Qui  comincia  lo  Itinerario  de  Lilola 
de  luchatan  ||  nouamente  ritrouata  per  il 
fignor  Gioan  de  !|  Grifalue  Capitan  Gen- 
erale  de  L'annata  ||  del  Re  de  Spagna  & 
per  il  fuo  Ca-  ||  peliano  copofta.  ||  Ludo.  || 

Colophon  {swWich    in  this  copy,  is  somewhat  crooked,  as  the  letters 
in  two  of  the  words  are  transposed) :  '  " 

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1520.       C  In   Venetia    per    Matthio    Pagan  II  in 
--'   -       Frezzaaa  (j/'c),  al  fcgno  ||  dell  (sic)  Fcde.H* 

*^*  Sm.  8vo  for  size,  with  signatures  in  fours,  sine  anno.  Title 
one  leaf  +  one  hundred  numbered  leavts  -\-  three  unnumbered 
leaves  for  the  index  +  o"^  inestimable  blank  leaf. 

(Private  Library,  New  Yorl<.) 

This  extremely  rare  volume  contains  two  distinct 
works.  The  first,  by  Ludovico  de  Varthema,  sometimes 
called  Ludovicus  Patricius  Romanus,  Varomicer,  Var- 
rommicer,  Barthema,  Vartomanus,  Varibemo,  and  Varon- 
miser  ;  the  second,  which  alone  entitles  the  book  to  a 
place  in  our  Bibliotheca,  by  Juan  Diaz.  The  latter  is  a 
description  of  the  memorable  expedition  to  Yucatan 
under  Juan  de  Grijalva,  from  March  ist  to  November 
15th,  1518.  Grijalva  wrote  an  account  of  the  voyage, 
which  he  presented  to  Velasquez,  who  intrusted  it  to 
Oviedo  to  be  remitted  to  the  king.  This  full  report  is 
now  lost,  but  Oviedo  has  probably  embodied  it  in  his 
Historia\  Bernal  Diaz,  who  was  a  companion  of  Gri- 
jalva, gave  also  an  account*  of  the  expedition.  As  to 
Juan  Diaz,  he  was  the  chaplain,  and  accompanied,  to- 
gether with  the  Dominican  monk  Bartolome  de  Ol- 
medo,  Hernan  Cortes  to  Yucatan  and  Mexico.  On  that 
occasion  he  was  the  first  who  said  mass  in  Yucatan 
(Feb.,  1519,  at  the  island  of  Cozumel).     He  baptized 


*  Anglice:  Itinerary  of  Ludovico  de  Var- 
thema ot"  Bologna,  to  Egypt,  Syria,  the 
Desert  and  Arabia  telix,  Persia,  India,  and 
Ethiopia;  the  creeds,  manner  of  life  and 
customs  of  the  said  countries,  together 
with  the  description  of  some  islands  re- 
cently discovered. 

Here  ends  the  Itinerary  of  Ludovico  de 
Varthema,  of  Bologna,  concerning  the 
countries  and  islands,  creeds,  manner  of 
life  and  their  customs,  recently  seen  by 
him  in  several  parts. 

Here  begins  the  itinerary  to  the  island 
of  Yucathan  recently  discovered  by  Signor 
Juan  de  Grijalva,  Captain-General  of  the 


King  of  Spain,  and  composed  by  his 
chaplain. 

At  Venice,  by  Matthew  Pagan,  at  the 
sign  of  Mf  Faith. 

'  Historia  General  de  lat  Indiai,  Part  I, 
Lib.  17,  cap.  8-18. 

*  Historia  f'r  Jii.tera  i  Madrid,  fol.  1 632 
(two  issues  of  the  same  date).  The  reader 
may  also  consult,  concerning  the  Grijalva 
expedition:  Gomara,  Prim,  y  leg.  parte  Je 
la  hist.  gen.  de  las  Indias ;  Saragossa,  fol., 
1 552-3;  Herrira,  Decade  11,  Lib.  111, 
cap.  I;  CoGOLLVDo,  Historia  de  Yucathan; 
Madrid,  fol.,  1688;  Lorenzana,  Hist,  de 
Nueva  EspaHa  i  Mexico,  fol.,  1770;  Cla- 


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1632 

reader 
Irijalva 
•)jrtt  lie 
;sa,  tol., 
ib.   Ill) 

Wit.  dt 
Cla- 


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the  famous   Malinche,  and  is  said  by  Diaz  de  la  Calle'     I  52O. 
to  have  been  the  first  priest  who  said  mass  in  the  city  of     _   .   ..nii 
Mexico,  although  Gonzaga^  asserts  that  this  mass  was 
said  by  Olmedo,  and  that  Diaz  only  assisted  him. 

Diaz  wrote  a  short  itinerary  in  Spanish  of  the  expedi- 
tion of  Grijalva,  the  original  of  which  has  never  been 
published,  nor  is  it  known  to  exist.  Wc  find  the  first 
version  of  it  in  a  translation  into  the  Toscan  dialect. 
It  is  the  present  No.  98.  This  version  was  republished 
in  the  editions  of  1522  [infra),  1526  [infra)  and  1535 
[infra).  It  is  not  in  the  Varthema  of  Scinzenzeler, 
Milan,  1523,  nor  has  it  been  added  to  the  reprints  of 
Varthema  in  the  various  editions  of  the  Novus  orbis  and 
of  Ramusio.  We  doubt  whether  it  is  inserted  in  any 
of  the  French,  German  or  English  editions  of  the  Itine- 
rario  which  were  published  towards  the  middle  of  the 
'  sixteenth  century.  We  had  the  rare  Spanish  translation 
by  de  Arcos  examined,  hoping,  as  it  bears  the  date  of 
1520  (Seville)  that  it  might  contain  the  original  text  of 
Diaz,  but  we  regret  to  say  that  Grijalva's  expedition  is 
not  inserted.  Brunet  and  Graesse  mention,  as  contain- 
ing it,  an  edition  by  Rusconi,  dated  Venice,  1520. 
This  assertion  seems  to  be  based  upon  the  Hibbert 
Catalogue  No.  8793.  The  copy  seen  at  the  Hibbert  sale 
was  an  imperfect  one,  lacking,  we  think,  the  leaf  with 
the  colophon  ;  and  which  was  mistaken  for  the  edition 
published  by  Rusconi  in  1522  [infra).  We  ascribe  to  the 
present  the  date  of  1520,  but  with  no  better  reason  than 
that  //  seems  to  be  an  earlier  impression  than  any  of  the 
dated  editions  which  have  come  under  our  notice.  This 
date  is  arbitrary  altogether,  and  might  as  well  be  1521. 

There  is  a  valuable  translation  into  Spanish  of  Diaz' 
account  in  Seflor  Icazbalceta's  important,  trustworthy 


victRO,  Sloria  antica  Je/  Messiio  f  Cesena,  '  Memorial  de  las  ItiAidi  Occident,  f  Mad- 

4to,  1 780- 1  ;   SoLis,  Hist,  de  la  conjuisia  rid,   4to,  1644. 

de  Mexico;    Madrid,  4to,  1788;    Navar-  *  De  origir.e  Serapkica  Relig.  Fru'cisc.  f 

«iTi,  Coleccion,  Vol.  Ill,  pp.  55-64;  Pres-  Rome,  tol.,  1587. 

COTT,  Inc.  cit.  •  Coleccion  de  documenlos  para  la  hiitoria 


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lya  Bib  Ho  thee  a  Americana. 

and  too  little  known  Coleecion\     The  late  M.  Ternaux 
has  given  a  faithful  version  in  his  Recueil^. 

"  The  most  circumstantial  account  of  Grijalva's  expedition  is  to  be 
found  in  the  Itinerary  of  his  chaplain  above  quoted  [under  the  title 
of  Itinerario  del  Capellano,  MS.]  The  original  is  lost,  but  an  indif- 
ferent Italian  version  was  published  at  Venice,  in  1522.  A  copy, 
which  belonged  to  Ferdinand  Columbus,  is  still  extant  in  the  li- 
brary of  the  great  church  of  Seville.  The  book  had  become  so  ex- 
ceedingly rare,  however,  that  the  historiographer  Munoz  [and  even 
Navarrete],  made  a  transcript  of  it  with  his  own  hand,  and  from  his 
manuscript  that  in  my  possession  was  taken." 

(Prescott'.  I 


Direct  references  i 


C.  R.  (Riva  of  Milan)  Catalogue, 
Hanrott  Catalogue,  — . 
Bb'JNEt,  Vol.  y,  col.  1094. 
Uraesse,  Vol.  I,  p.  301. 


N   i' 


99'    ANONYMOUS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

Then  woodcut  filling  the  rest  of  the  title-page,  and  representing 
vessels,  islands,  and  a  sea-port. 

*^*  Sm.  4to,  sine  anno  aut  loco  ;  title  one  leaf -|-  two  unnumbered 
leaves  -f  one  blank.     Neither  colophon  nor  water-mark. 

(Private  Library,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

This  extremely  curious  and  interesting  plaquette  pur- 
ports to  be  a  translation  into  German  of  a  letter  describ- 
ing the  arrival  of  a  vessel  from  Brazil  to  a  port  not 
mentioned,  October  12th,  of  a  year  also  left  blank,  but 
which  is  supposed  by  Humboldt'  to  be  between  1525 
and  1540,  while  de  Varnhagen"  ascribes  to  the  expedi- 
tion the  early  date  of  1508.  The  letter  describes  an 
exploration    coastwise    of  nearly   two   thousand    miles, 

de  Mexiio ;    Mexico,  4to,    1858,    V'ol.   I,  *  Anglice :   Copy  of  a  late  letter  from 

pp.  2l{  1-308.  the  Land  of  Brazil. 

*  Recueit  del  pieces  relatives  a  la  Conjuete  '   Examen  Crilijue,  Vol.  v,  p.  249. 

du  Mexijue;   Paris,  8 vo,  1838,  pp.  1-47.  '  Historia   geral    do    Brazil i     Madrid, 

'  Conquest  of  M»xico,Yo\.\,f.^^<),note.  4to,  1854. 


Bihliothecq  Americana.  173 

undertaken  with   two  vessels   belonging  to  one  "No-     I520. 

no"  ( ? )  and  to  the  well-known  Christopher  de  Haro',  

with  the  authorization  of  the  King  of  Portugal.  Hum- 
boldt is  of  opinion  that  this  was  a  voyage  to  the  Straits 
of  Magellan  ;  Varnhagen,  on  the  other  hand,  attempts 
to  prove  that  it  is  only  the  well-authenticated  Spanish 
expedition  of  Solis  and  Pinzon.  Ternaux  seems  to 
value  the  work  only  in  so  far  as  it  "  prouve  d'une  ma- 
•  niere  authentique,  I'anciennete  des  relations  de  la  France 
avec  le  Bresih."  This  assertion  rests  upon  a  single  line 
containing  a  statement  to  the  effect  that  "  les  habitants 
disent  qu'il  vient  de  temps  en  temps  d'autres  vaissaux, 
et  que  ceux  qui  les  montent  sont  habilles  comme  nous ; 
d'apres  ce  qu'en  disent  les  habitants,  les  Portugais  pen- 
sent  que  ce  sont  des  Fran9ais.  lis  ont  presque  tous  la 
barbe  rouge' "  We  are  inclined  to  think  that  the  early 
date  of  the  visits  of  the  French  navigators  to  Brazil 
rests  on  better  authorities.  Even  if  we  leave  aside  the 
interesting  documents  produced  by  Des  Marquetz'^'  and 
the  ingenious  arguments  urged  by  M.  Estancelin"  con- 
cerning the  supposed  expedition  of  Cousin  of  Dieppe 
to  Brazil  in  1488,  we  have  authentic  deeds  and  deposi- 
tions proving  beyond  a  doubt  a  French  expedition  to 
Brazil  as  early  as  1503,  by  Binot  Paulmier  de  Gonne- 
ville^     The  anonymous  Enforma^ao  do  Brasil  et  de  suas 


e  letter  (roin 


*  "  J'  obscrvcrai  d'abord  que  ropuscule  allemand, 
oini  sur  Ic  litre  d'une  gravure  en  bois  q'-i  rcpre- 
seiite  mi  pnrt  de  mer  et  deux  ilots  rocheux,  est 
crtaincmeiit  tradiiil  de  I'italien  el  non  du  poiiu- 

gais,  comme  on  puurrait  Ic  supposer La 

maison  de  Christobal  >le  Har  ■  et  de  ses  deux 
frcrcs  etaii  eiablic  i  Anvers  ;  elle  tournissait, 
comme  jalis  ccllcs  de  Bcrardi  et  de  Marchioi]i  ^ 
Seville  el  Lisboiiiie,  des  tniids  pour  dc  grJiidcs  cii- 
Ireprises  mcrcantilcs  ou  des  voyages  de  decouverles. 

Haro  sc  plaigliant  comme  Magellan  des 

preteiidues  injuituet  dc  la  cour  de  I.isboriue,  pril 
une  part  si  ac;ive  au  '■  projct  du  detroii,'  qu'il 
otfrit  d'avancer  a  lui  scul  tous  les  frais  dc  I'arnic- 
nieut.  La  cour  d'Hspagne  tie  voulut  par  accepter 
des  otfrcs  si  genereuses  en  apparencc,  mais  Haro 
Unit  par  s'engagcr  pour  la  ciiiquieme  panic  des 
frais  de  rexpeditioiif  ou  pour  4000  ducats.  Aussi 
ail  retour  dc  ta  faineusc  nja  riVrorij,  toute  la  car- 
gaisoii  dc  ctoux  de  girotfe  lui  fut  remise."  ITi'm- 
BOLDT,  toe.  cil. 


*  Ternaux,  .■Jrcii-ve>  des  f^ofages  ; 
P.iiis,  8vo,  n.  d  (1841),  Vol.  II,  p.  306, 
notr. 

'  Ternaux,  /o.  .  tit.,  p.  309. 

*  Mcmoirti  chromlogiifues  pour  seri'ir  a 
l^/iisloiri  (it  Dieppe;  Paris,  i  vols.,  Iimo, 
178;,  Vol.  I,  pi).  93-98. 

'  l^ogtiges  et  Jiouvertes  Jet  Norman  Ji  ; 
Paris,  8vo,  1832,  pp.  37,  .ind  332-61. 

"  P.  De  GosNEvii.t.1,  Ali-moires  touchani 
titabliaement  dune  mission  chrrtienne  dans 
la  troisieme  monde;  Paris,  i2mo,  1663;  De 
Bkosses,  Hist,  des  Navigations  aux  terres 
ausrrales  f  Paris,  4to,  1756,  Vol.  I,  pp. 
104-114;  D'AvEZAC,  in  Bulletin  de  la 
Societe  de  Geographie,  Vol.  xiv.  p.  172, 


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I  C20.  capitamaf>,  also  mentions  the  arrival  of  French  vessels 
■  into  the  port  of  Bahia  in  1504,  which  date  is  corrobo- 
rated by  another  account  published  by  Ramusio'°,  and 
mentioning  the  discoveries  made  by  Jean  Denys,  a  na- 
tive of  the  hospitable  and  ever  gratefully-remembered 
town  of  Honfleur,  in  Normandy. 

This  curious  and  enigmatic  account  was  probably  writ- 
ten originally  in  Portuguese,  then  translated  into  Italian, 
from  which  the  present  version  seems  to  have  been 
made.  Humboldt  gives"  an  excellent  analysis  of  the 
plaquette,  made  from  a  copy  in  the  Dresden  library. 
There  is  a  French  translation  in  Ternaux'  Archives  des 
Foyages",  and  extracts  in  the  Portuguese  language  have 
been  inserted  by  Varnhagen  in  his  valuable  and  too 
little  known  History  of  Brazil". 

The  date  of  1520  is  altogether  arbitrary,  and  rests  on 
no  other  foundation  than  mere  inferences  tending  to 
show  that  the  r.ccount  may  have  been  written  soon  after'* 
the  expedition  of  Magellan,  and  the  fact  that  this  date, 
having  been  given  already  in  some  catalogues,  it  may 
facilitate  researches. 

Direct  reference::  (  Zapf,  ylugsh.  Buchdruckergeichichte,  Vol.  II,  page  20»,  No.  ix. 
i  Bihliotheca  Grer.villiana,  pjge  835. 
(  Bihliotheca  Brotvniana,  page  lo,  No.  30. 

100.     IDEM  OPUS— Recto  of  the  Jirst /eaf: 

S^o^ia  brr  9lrtiieti  ^e^tuitg 
m^  ^refiKg  Sanbt. 

Then,  instead  of  the  above-described  vignette,  a  large  woodcut 
representing  the  royal  arms  of  Portugal. 

Colophon  : 

G  ^etruift  ju  9(ugf^ttr(}  bnri^  @rl)art  ogliit. 

'^^*  Sin.  4to,  sine  anno;  title  one  leaf-j-  three  unnumbered  leaves, 
the  third  containing  only  ten  lines,  including  the  colophon. 
For  water-mark,  a  cup, 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


•  Reviita  trimemal ;  Rio  de  Janeiro, 
Vol.  VI,  pp.  411-414. 

"  Discorio  (tun  gran  capilano  di  mare 
Franceie,  Vol.  in,  foil,  423-432. 


•'  Loc.  cit..  Vol.  V,  pp.  239-2^8. 
"  Vol.  II,  pp.  306-310. 

"  PP-  434-43 Si  x""- 

'*  If' not  btj'ore  !     See  infra,  p.  175. 


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woodcut 


ed  leaves, 
colophon. 


This  edition  presents  differences  in  the  orthography  I520. 
throughout,  but  not  to  such  an  extent  as  to  give  new  ---—-99 
readings,  especially  of  the  mysterious  passage : 

^'  Uitb  mottett  bie  ^rfamen  ^ortngafefer  faseii  re  feien 
(^ejtiner,  fo  genajlolnguc  nabigierett/'  and  of  the  expres- 

sion  "Slort  %|frll,"  which  so  greatly  perplexed  von 
Hagen  and  Humboldt.  Yet,  had  Humboldt  and  de 
Varnhagen  enjoyed  an  opportunity  ro  consult  it,  they 
might  have  modified  their  views.  The  reader  will  no- 
tice that  this  bears  on  the  title-page  a  large  woodcut 
representing  the  royal  arms  of  Portugal.  This  must  be 
viewed  as  one  more  indication  that  the  translator  or 
printer  considered  the  plaquette  as  giving  an  account 
of  a  voyage  undertaken  under  the  auspices  of  Portugal, 
and  not,  as  Varnhagen  is  inclined  to  think,  of  a  Spanish 
expedition  under  Solis  and  Pinzon.  On  the  other 
hand,  the  plaquette  was  printed  by  Erhard  Oeglin, 
which  militates  against  the  conjecture  of  Humboldt 
that  the  events  it  relates  transpired  between  the  years 
1525  and  1540.  This  Erhard  Oeglin  or  Oglin,  some- 
times called  Erhard  Ocellus  of  Reutlingen,  was  already 
in  partnership  with  John  Otmar  in  1505.  Judging  from 
a  careful  examination  of  Zapf's  Augsburgs  Buchdrucker- 
geschichte\  Oglin  does  not  seem  to  have  printed  after 
1 516,  when  he  enjoyed  the  then  uncommon  title  of  Im- 
perial Printer.  Nor  should  we  forget  that  there  are 
internal  evidences^  tending  to  show  that  the  translation 
was  made  from  an  Italian  version,  itself  probably  taken 
from  the  Portuguese.  All  these  transformations  im 
ply  a  certain  lapse  of  time,  which,  when  added  to  the 
probability  that  the  German  printer  had  ceased  to 
print  after  15 16,  present  materials  for  a  new  history 
of  the  voyages  to  the  southern  seas,  which  mav  yet 
prove  that  what  is  now  termed  the  Straits  of  Magel- 
lan was  visited  before   1519,  and  that  Christopher  de 


P    '75- 


'  Augsbuig,   4to,    1788,    Vol.    1,   page  '  Nutc   B   to   Voi.    v   of    the    Eramtn 

XLiii,  and  Vol.  ii.  p.  102,  No.  ix.  Critique,  page  245. 


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1520.    Haro,   imparted  to  his  intimate  friend  Magellan   the 

indications  which  led  to  the  memorable  voyage  of  the 

nao  Victoria. 
•  We  must  also  be  permitted  to  remark  that  this  wood- 
cut adds  weight  to  our  assertion  when  describing  the 
escutcheon  of  Granada  in  the  second  edition'  of  the 
Columbus  letter  {supra,  p.  11),  that  armorial  bearings 
are  no  sure  tests  to  determine  where  the  book  was 
printed,  as  in  the  present  instance  we  have  an  Augs- 
burg edition,  which,  instead  of  the  well-authenticated 
vignete  of  a  pine-apple,  contains  the  arms  of  Portugal. 
Had  the  present  copy  of  this  Augsburg  plaquette  lacked 
the  colophon,  as  is  frequently  the  case  with  those  early 
printed  sheets,  it  might  have  been  ascribed  to  a  Lisbon 
or  Evora  printer  by  the  bibliographers  who  accept  the 
theory  that  a  coat-of-arms  on  the  title-page  indicates 
that  the  book  was  printed  in  the  country  which  assumes 
the  inserted  escutcheon. 


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10  It    ANONYMOUS— IVithin  a  border: 

C  PROVINCIAE  SIVE  ||  REGIONES  IN  INDIA  |1  OCCI- 
DENTALI  NOViyTER  REPERTA  IN|1VLTIMA  NA- 11  VI- 
GATIO-  II  NE.-. 

In  fine  :  . 

Et  Vallenletti feptima  ||  Martij.  Millefimo  Quingentefimo  vigefimo.\\* 

*^*  Very  sm.  410,  fourteen  unnumbered  leaves,  including  the  title. 

Private  Library,  New  Yorlt. 

Account  of  the  conquest  of  Cuba  by  Diego  Velas- 
quez ;  and  is  a  translation  into  Latin  of  a  Spanish  ac- 
count, as  yet  unknown". 


'  We   use  the  words  second  edition  on         *  Anglice  :    The  provinces    or   regions 

the  strength  of  the  following  endorsement  in  the  West  Indies  recently  diocovereJ  in 

hy  such  a  high  authority  as  M.  D'Avezac:  the   last   navigation.     Valladolid,   March 

•■  ye  partage  ccnpletement  -voire  opinion  sur  yth,  1850. 

rordre  chrono!ogi(jue  des  six  editions  de  i^^l         '  On  the  verso  of  leafc-iiij  there  is  a 

par  vous  decrites."  letter  from  Peter  Acosta. 


Bibliotheca    Americana.  ly^ 

1 02.    PETER  MARTYR (T)-fVithln  nn  ornamented  border: 

X)ief(l|lffttttf|mm||bem  Sannbt  ber||@ttOien  %Xi\t%t= 
funb^  bttrd)  ||  ^crn  Slogan  bd  WttgUcro  ||  ^ato^tman  bed 
«r(fiett||Ud|eii  ^uitigd  bo  -^IflHioiiItt,  gar  ^ulifdi || bitto 
|fl  %nl  mit  II  atten  t|ren  (eben  li  bnb  fit- 1|  ten.  ||  ^  || 

%*  Sm.  ^10,  sine  anno  aut  /.r«.  title  one  lear+  two  unnumbered 
leaves.     No  water-mark. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

A  foreign  catalogue'  ascribes  four  leaves  to  this  work, 
and  adds  the  following  notice  : 

"Premiere  edition  allemande  de  la  premiere  lettre  de  Pierre  Mar 
tyr/sur  la  decouverte  du  nouveau  continent,  tres-rare." 

Pinelo-Barcia,  Antonio,  Meusel,  Jocher,  &c.,  are  all 
silent  concerning  this  or  any  other  "Johan  von  An- 
gleria.  Peter  Martyr  is  probably  intended  ;  but  what 
IS  meant  by  his  "first  letter  concerning  the  discovery  of 
the  new  continent,"  we  have  failed  to  discover\ 

Dirut  «>,«„..  J  Gha«se.  Vol.  ,,   page    ,jo.  on   wi,ose  authority   (in  tl,e  absence 

i  BA/    7  ""i"^  *'  "'"''"=  ""=  -^^'^  Of"  vers  ,s2o." 
I  Bibliotheca  Broivniaita,  page  10,  No.  30. 

103.     ALBER  Tim  ( FR.  DE)~Recto  of  the  first  leaf  ■ 

mSxmXx^  Home 

©pufculfl  tre  ittiraijiliijus 

j^oue  et  ©eteris  urliis 

Motne  ctiita.  a  jFran 

cifco  aitmino 

JPlorentino 

€um  ^riuilesio. 

(infra) ^iniNotu on  Columhu,  Dp   120  i,c      ,1,  ,   """,.'"    *^""    Martyr   mentioning 
ror  the  Ep„t.  exxx  to  Jose'p'lT^Bo^rUL':     l^.^rs^My'fite  rn«.'-       ^'^    ^"-'^''- 


1520. 


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I  ')20>  The  title  is  within  a  highly  ornamented  border,  surmounted  by  a 
■vignette  representing  the  gates  of  a  city,  and  terminating  with  two 
woodcut  portraits,  which  we  have  failed  to  identify. 

Colophon  : 

ImpfTu  Lugd.9  p  loan,  mario  fuptib^ 
&  expefis  F  mani  morin  bi-  ||  bliophile 
eiufde  ciuitatis.  ano  dni  m.d.xx.  die  vero. 
xxviii,  martii.  || 


%*  4to 


title  one  leaf  -J-  sixty  leaves  numbered  in  Arabic  nu- 
merals on  the  recto,  repeating  56  twice  ;  on  the  verso  of  the 
last  leaf  two  woodcuts,  the  lower  being  a  papal  coat-of-arms. 

(British  Museum.) 

This  editioii  reproduces,  without  any  alterations, 'the 
passage  referring  to  Vespuccius,  which  we  have  inserted 
supra,  in  describing  the  edition  of  15 10  (No.  64). 
Clement  ascribes  to  the  present,  "  Feuillets  57." 


Direct  rtferencii : 


Bibtiothtca  Sarraaiana,   Part  II,  p.    II 7,   and    Bihlioth.   Anonym. 

Hagae-Com.  ap.  Beavkigard  1744,  p.  161,  cited  by  : 
Clement,  Bihliothequt  Curieutt,  Vol.  i,  page  121. 


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104.  PT0J.EMr-E5sLER-UBEUN>-"'Pto\tmvie.\xs  auctus 
reftitutus  emaculatus,  cum  tabulis  veteribus  et  novis 
[opera  Georgii  Ubelii].  Am.  E.  von  Buck  8  :  loannes 
Scotus  Argentorati  Uteris  excepit  mdxx. — Diefe  Aufg. 
enthalt  xlvii  Tabulae,  Geographicae  in  Holfchn.  Bern- 
har,  Aretins  Beytrage  Bd.  V.  p.  535  fagt,  dafs  in  der 
Bibl.  zu  Munchen  zwei  Exx.  seien  mit  roth,  und  eins 
mit  fchwarzegedr.  Titel." 

(Meusel'  and  HorrMANN*.) 

Reimpression  of  No.  74,  which  see. 

"  Dans  le  texte  les  noms  propres  en  grec  sont  omis :  I'atlas  y  est  de 
meme  double  comme  dans  I'edition  de  1513." 

(Lelewel'.) 

'  Annal.  Tyf.,  Vol.  v.  Part  li,  p.  l88.  '  Giographie   du   Moycn  Age,  Vol.   ii, 

'  Biblhgr.  Lexical,  Vol.  ill,  p.  319.  Appendix,  p.  108. 


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179 


fenblirieff  bent  aOer   kitrd)lrttil|HQiftrn  ||  gro^med)tigi|ie 


f^itrften  iinb  ^erren  ^erren  Siad  9l(imifd)en  bnb 
f^anifdl^  ^onig  &c  tittfrrm  onebiben  §ern  burdi  ire  ber- 
orbent  ||  §an)it(ettt  |  bott  toegen  einer  neto  gefunb^  ^tt 
fein,  ber  felbl  getegett  ||  Ijeit  bnb  intvoner  jitteit  bn  ge- 
mon^eite  inljiilteitb  bor  Attri^tterfi^i- 1|  nen  tagen  sttge^ 
fanbt.  II 

Then  woodcut  representing  the  landing  of  armed  men  from  a  man- 
of-war. 

Colophon  on  verso  of  the  s'venth  leaf: 

@etrttitt  in  ber  feiferUi^en  ^iai  9lttrmlierg  buri^H 
9rt)beriil|en  ^ei)^u«|bnb  feUgf(ii|  bolenb  II  am.  17.  tug 
<0larcii|bed  iarg  bo  ntan||  jolt  nadj  6:^rifii  unferl  Hebenll 
Ijerren  gebbrt.  iEUXX.  H*^ 

*^*  4to,   title  one   leaf  +  six    unnumbered   leaves  +  one    blank; 
thirty-eight  lines  to  a  full  page. 

(Private  Library,  Providence.) 

This  rare  plaquette  contains  a  relation  of  the  expedi- 
tions of  Francisco  Hernandez  de  Cordova,  Grijalva 
and  Cortes  to  Yucatan,  taken  apparently  from  Peter 
Martyr's  Decades. 

Direct  rtftrtnct :  BMhtktca  Browniana,  page  lo,  No.  19. 

106.    ALBERTiNi  {FR.  Z)£)— "Opufculum  de  Mirabili- 
bus  novae  et  veteris  Urbis  Romae. 


Bononiae,  1520,  4to. 


(Bibliotheca  Heberiana^ . 


*  Anglici  !  An  extract  from  several 
missives  to  the  most  illustrious  and  power- 
ful prince  and  lord  Charles,  King  of  the 
Romans  and  of  Spain.  Our  gracious  lord 
tent  through  his  appointed  captains  an 
account  of  a  recently-discovered  island,  de- 


scribing its  locality,  the  customs  and 
habits  of  its  inhabitants.  Printed  in  the 
Imperial  city  of  Nuremberg,  by  FfeJericlc 
Peypus,  and  happily  finished  March  17th, 
A.  D.  1 5*0. 

'  Part  VI,  No.  118. 


1520. 


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107.      PIGGHE    (ALBERT)-h\hQrtW%        PI    ||    GHluS 

Campen  ||  fis  de  oequinodiorvm  fol  ||  fti- 
tioruque  inuentione  Ad.  R.  in  Chrifto 
patrem  D  Fra||cifcum  Molinium  Abbatem 
S.  Maximini,  a  Secretis  &  cofilio  .  R  .  Fran- 
corum  Chriftianifs.  &  pijs  largitionibus 
eius  II  dem  proepolitum  primarium  || 

Eiufdem  de  ratione  Pafcha  ||  lis  cele- 
brationis/ Deque  Reftitutione  ecclefiaftici 
Kalen  ||  darij.  Ad  Beatiflimum  Patrem 
Leonem  X  Pontificem  ||  Maximum.  || 

venundantur  Parifij/  in  vico  Diui  lacobi 
Tub  fcuto  Bafilienfi.  || 

Cvm  privile  1|  gio  ad  Trien  ||  nivm.  || 


1 


%*  Sm.  folio,  sine  anno  (the  second  treatise  bears  the  date  of  1 5  20 ). 

(Imperial  Library  at  Paris.) 

r 

The  above  title  has  proved  to  us  such  a  fruitful 
cause  of  disappointments  and  vain  researches  in  the 
dusty  garret  of  an  old  church,  and  in  the  damp  cellars 
of  our  dealers  in  second-hand  books,  that  it  is  not  with 
unmitigated  sorrow  that  we  find  ourselves  constrained 
to  state  that  Albert  Pigghe,  frequently  called  Pighius 
Campensis  (1490-1542'),  was  frightfully  homely*,  a 
Pelasgian',  and  probably  a  plagiarist. 

A  certain  stress  has  been  placed  by  Humboldt*  upon 
the  following  passage,  which  the  reader  will  find  on 
page  28  : 


'  Niccno!!,  Atfmoiret,  Vol.  xxxix. 

'  "  la  brucezzj  J'un  viso  tanto  spia- 
ceuole,"  GoTio,  Je  gli  Hvomini  famou  in 
lentrt,  p.  222. 


•  Calvin,  Resf>ont.  contra  Pigiium, 
Ofusc.  Theot.,  p.  i<).o,  in  Bayle,  Dk- 
tionnaire.  Vol.  in,  p.  721,  note. 

*  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  iv,  p.  145. 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  igi 

Terra  etiam  noua  ChriftianifTimi  hif- 
panarium  regis  aufpiciis  a  Vefputio  nuper 
inuenta/  quam  ob  fui  magnitudinem  mun- 
dum  nouum  appellant  vltra  oequatorem 
plus35gradibusverputii  obfervatione  pro- 
tendi  cognita  eft  et  necdum  finis  inuentusJ 

"  Fa  5tupore  egualmente."  says  Canovai'.  "  che  Alberto  Pighio  Cam 
pcnse  ndl' anno   ,520  conservi  i  suoi  diritti  al   Vespucci  fdontadi 
tutte  le  macchine  che  contro   di   lui   eia  cominrinJ    j  1  , 

potente  Famiglia  del  Colombo  :   ZI'l^TZlTic^^     '""'"""  '" 


Direct  Ttftrtncn 


M.CNE,  Bncyclopidie  Tiiologijue,  Vol.  xt„,  col.  670 

Cancelliebi,  Disstriazioni,  page  46. 

Watt,  Bibliotheca  Britannica,  Vol.  11,  col.  7;, 

hX^r:!  wlT.fV,:r'^  "T  ""  '-"^'  ^  memorandum 
naif  eltaced,  Wadler,  B.blwiheca  Auronomicr,  page  ,,0.    p.„ 
ttt,   Annalts    Tybogr.,  Vol     viii     oa..,    A„     >»"•«<:  339 1    rA"- 


1520. 


108.    SOLINU&-CAMERS-W,thm  an  ornamental  border  : 

lOANNIS  CAMERTIS  MINORI  ||  TANI.  AR- 
TIVM/  ET  SA-  II  CRAE  THEOLOGIAE  ||  DOCTORIS/ 
IN.  C.  IVLII  II  SOLIN  IIOAVi'j:T12i>A  ||  ENARRATIO-  |i 
NES.  II  " 

Additus  eiufdem  Camertis  Index/ 1|  turn 
hterarum  ordine,  turn  re-  ||  rum  notabiliu 
copia/  per-  ||  comodus  Studiofis.  ||  Cum 
Gratia  &  Priuile-  j|  gio  Imperiali.  || 

of-thc  most  Christian  King  o,  fhe  S    Hn!  .nH  T     '  "''"   '^'"'^■^''  ''^6""   ''- 

ha,  been  called  che  new  .o.ld.  ia  known'  •  V,.,,,.";;";'^,,  3..  ^,,.  .„^^ 


'^^w^^nvmr 


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182  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  C20.  Cdophon  : 

■^ EXCVSVM    EST    HOC  OPVS  SOLINI-  ||  anUIH    CU 

Ennerationibus  egregii  lacr^  The-  ||  ologiie 
Dodoris  lOANNis  ca-  ||  meriis  Minoritani, 
Anno  na-  |1  tiuitatis  domini.  M.D.XX.  || 
Viennae  Auftri*  per  lo-  ||  anne  Singreniu, 
im-  II  penlis  honelli  ||  lvcae  alantsk,  ciuis/ 
Bibli-  II  opolae  Viennenfis.  || 


*^*  Folio,  title  one  leaf+  seven  preliminary  leaves  +  three  hun- 
dred and  thirty-six  pages  4-  two  unnumbered  leaves,  with  the 
above  colophon  on  the  recto  of  the  second,  followed  by  a 
woodcut  representing  two  griffins  supporting  a  shield,  sur- 
mounted by  a  tree  +  fifteen  leaves  for  index,  on  the  verso  of 
the  last,  Singrenius'  mark.     Text  in  Roman  characters. 

(British  Museum.) 

"  Der  Minorite  Gamers  (sein  eigentlicher  weltlicher  Name  war 
Giovanni  Rienzzi  V^ellini',  aus  Camerino  in  Umbrien  gebiirtig  und 
Lehrer  in  Wien  [1468-1  546]^  datirt  seine  Vorrede  zum  Solinus  Vien- 
nae* Pannoni*  VI.  Calendas  Febr.  anno  post  Christi  natalem 
MDXX.  Apianus  (Peter  Biencwitz,  j'cb.  1495  zu  Leissnig  bei  Meis- 
sen), gibt  folgenden  Titel  seiner  Karte,  auf  der  zuerst  der  Name 
Amerika  in  dem  siidlichen  Theile  des  Neuen  Kontinents  eingeschrie- 
ben  ist :  Typus  Orbis  universalis  juxta  Ptolomei  Cosmographi  Tra- 
ditionem  et  Americi  Vespucii  aliorumque  lustrationes  a  Petro  Apiano 
Lcysn.  elaboratus.  Anno  Do.  MDXX.  Der  Isthmus  von  Panama 
ist  auf  der  Karte  des  Apianus  von  einer  Meerenge  durchschnitten, 
was  um  so  merkwiirdiger  ist,  als  dieser,  bis  in  die  ncuesten  Chines- 
ischen  Weltkarten  fortgepflantze  offene  Isthmus  sich  auch  auf  dem 
Globus  von  Johann  Schoner  findet,  der  dasselbe  Alter  hat.  Dazu 
fijgt  die  Karte  des  Apianus  in  der  Ausgabe  des  Camers  iiber  den 
am  grossten  geschriebenen  Namen  America  die  Inschrift  hinzu  : 
Anno  1497  haec  terra  cum  adjacentibus  insulis  inventa  est  per  Co- 
lumbum  Januenscm  ex  mandato  Regis  Castillae." 

(Humboldt*.) 


•  Clement,  fi(W;oM.  Car.  Vol.  VI,  p.  146. 

*  There  is  another  edition  of  Solinus 
of  the  same  date,  supposed  by  some  authors 
to  be  anonymous,  but  which  was  also  pub- 
lished by  Camers.  As  it  is  extremely 
tare,  we  insert  in  this  place  a  transcript  of 
the  title,  although  our  memorandum  does 


not  state  whether  this  edition  contains 
likewise  the  map  which  imparts  so  much 
importance  to  the  Vienna  book. 

Within  a  highly  ornamented  border  : 
C.  1 VLII II  SOLINI  POLYHISTOR,  || 
SEV   RERVM    ORBIS   ME||MORA- 
BILIVM  COLECTANEA.il 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


'8.7 


This  remarkable  map.  which,   thu,,   far.    i,   the  earliest  with   the      \  COrs 
ame  of  Amenca   inscribed,   is   inserted    close   to    ."   "-^     .    ■         '520. 


nam 


eighth  leaf.      It  is  a  woodc'ut",  TCr^l  iX,    wit'h  !.n'"'°   "''  '^' 
border,  and  bears  the  following  inscTiptbn         '  "^"■"^•'nted 

n^IPvs  ORBIS  VNIVERSAI/S  IVXTA 
^  PTOLOMEI  CSM^GRAPHI  TRA 
DITIO^EM  ET  AME  URIC  V.SPVCII 
ALIO^QVE   LVSTRATIONES   A    PE 
TRO  APIANO  LEYSNIC"  ELVCR^qii 
AN.  DO  M.DXX^  II  ■'   " 


The  southern  continent 
tends  just  to  the  equator. 


is  separated  from  the  northern,  and   ex- 
Un  the  southern  part,  we  read  : 


Anno  1497,  hac  terra  cum  adiaccrib^ 
infuhs  inueta  eft  per  Columbum  lanuen- 
fem  ex  mandate  regis  caftelle  AMERICA 
puincia. 

North,  several  islands,  one  marked   FSARPr  r  a        j         1     , 
following  queer  inscription  :  '^^ABELLA.  under  wh.ch  the 

Spagnolla  infula   in    qua    rep/r    guaicu 
lignum.  ^  ° 

Which  would   almost    entitle   the  work   of   Ulrich   de 
Hut  en  on  Gua.cum  wood  to  a  place  in  our  Bibliotheca 
The   nor  hern    continent    is    termed  Terra  incoznta 
rh,s  valuable  map  was  also  inserted  in  the  pZfomus 


Verso  of  the  title-page  : 
SOLINI    VITA  II  PER    lOANNEM 
CAMERTEM  EDITA.  || 
Colophon ; 
Colonia  apud  Eucharium    Cen,icor  Ij  ,:,„ 

tn.U.  II  XX.  mense  Decern-  \\bri.  \\ 
***  4to,  ninety-two  numbered  leaves 
It  IS  also  stated    that  there  is  a  Basle 

edition    of  Gamers.     Is    not    the    Sclinu, 


published    in    that   city,    folio,    ,538,    bv 
Sebastun  Miinster  (as  appears  on  p   46  of 
this  Basle  edition)  intended  ?     Sec  Fkev 
TAG,  Apparat.  Lilt.,  Vol.  m,  p.  649. 

Anglui;  Delineation  of  the  entire 
world,  prepared  according  to  the  te.ich- 
'ng  of  Ptolemy  the  cosmographer,  and 
the  voyages  of  Americus  Vespucciu. 
and  others  by  Peter  Apian  of  Leiss- 
nig  [baxonyj. 


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I  520.  Mela  of  1522  (infra),  and  necessarily  preceded  the  map- 
pemonde  bearing  also  the  word  America,  and  inserted  in 
the  sumptuous  Ptolemy  of  1522  (infra). 

The  cartography  of  the  sixteenth  century  is  of  such 
importance  to  the  student  of  American  history  that  we 
deem  it  necessary  to  devote  more  space  to  maps  and 
geographical  works  than  has  been  heretofore  the  custom 
in  bibliographical  compilations.  We  will,  therefore, 
describe  all  the  maps  contained  in  the  works  before  us, 
and  add,  at  the  end  of  il^e  present  volume,  a  Carto^raphia 
Americana,  or  description  of  the  geographical  delinea- 
tions engraved  or  printed  separately,  before  1550. 
Researches  have  also  been  instituted  in  the  Imperial, 
Mazarine  and  St.  Genevieve  libraries  at  Paris,  for  the 
purpose  of  bringing  to  light  the  manuscript  maps  of 
that  period  which  refer  to  America. 

Direct  itfertiiifi!  I    FABRjrius,  Bihiiothtca  Latina  icd.  1711),  Vol.  i,  page  415. 

Maittaikk,  Annales  Tvf>ogr.,  Vol.  v,  Part  11,  page  150. 
I    Ermsti,  introd.  to  the  Bipont  edit,  of  Solinus,  8vo,  1794,  page  x. 

Bihiiothtca  lltheriana.  Part  x,  No.  723. 

Ebf-kt,  Dictionary. 
•  Introd.  to  Ghillany,  Geichickit  Jet  S.  Behaim,  p.  8. 


I  5  2  I  .      I  09.     MONTALBODDO  (FRANC.  DE)—Re(to  of  the  first  leaf: 


i^aefi  ttouamentc  nttouati  peril  la  Nauigatione 
di  Spagna  in  Calicut.  Et  da  Alber  ||  tutio 
Vefputio  Fiorentino  intitulato  Mon  ||  do 
Nouo.  Nouamente  Impreflb.  || 

Then  vignette  representing  Venice,  filling  the  rest  of  the  page. 

Colophon  : 

C  Stampata  in  Venetia  per  Zorzo  de 
Rufconi  Milla  ||  nefe.  Nel.  M.D.XXI.  adi. 
xy.  de  Febraro. 


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**  Sm.  4to  for  si/.c ;  title  one  leaf -|- one  hundred  and  twenty  I^2I< 
unnumbered  leaves  for  text  -\-  three  unnumbered  Icavci  for  ,,^,^^^ 
the  table.     Printed  in  Roman  in  two  columns. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


Mr.  Hanrott,  in  a  note  to  the  Grenvillc  copy,  states 
that  this  edition,  "  though  not  so  rare  as  the  preceding 
ones  of  1507  (No.  48)  and  1508  (No.  55),  contains 
more  at  the  end."  Per  contra,  Nodier  says'  that  all  the 
editions,  except  these  two,  "ont  eproiive,  dans  plusieurs 
endroits  du  texte,  des  alterations  sensibles,  et  pour  des 
causes  particulieres,"  while  Brunet'  calls  this  number  a 
"simple  reimpression  de  I'edit.  de  1517"  (No.  t^o)  ; 
and  then  proceeds  to  reopen  the  controversy  as  regards 
the  original  compiler  of  the  Paesi,  in  these  words  : 

"  Ce  nom  dc  Montalboddo  Friuim.  ou  FrancAanzano)  se  lit  cer- 
tainemcnt  dans  toutes  les  editions  de  ce  rccucil.  Nous  voyons  nicme 
que  c'est  celui  sous  lequel  est  placee  I'edition  de  1507,  dans  la  Bih- 
liotb.  pinelL,  qui  passe  pour  ctre  I'ouvrage  de  I'abbe  Morcili.  Ce- 
pendant  ce  savant  bibliothecairc,  dans  ses  notes  .sur  la  iettre  de  Co- 
lomh'.dit  que  Ic  recueil  de  voyages  (A/o//</*  novj)  imprime  a  Viccncc, 
en  1^07,3  etc  donne  par  les  soins  d'un  certain  Friuanzi'j,  ratif  dc 
Monte  Albodo,  dans  la  marchc  d'.Ancone,  et  reprcnd  ii  ce  sujet  ceu.x  qui, 
d'apres  la  mauvaise  le^on  dc  I'epitre  citee,  ont  attribue  ce  livre  a  un 
pretcndu  Montalboddo  FrancanZiino.  C'est  aussi  ce  que  repcte  Zurla, 
di  Marco  Palo,  vol.  11,  p.  108." 

This  note  of  Brunet,  together  with  the  use  which  we 
made  of  Zorzi's  name  in  mentioning  the  preceding  edi- 
tions of  the  present  work,  and  the  alteration  introduced 
at  the  suggestion  of  M.  D'Avezac  (see  supra.  No.  70) 
make  it  incumbent  on  us  to  state  our  authorities  for 
ascribing  then  the  compilation  of  the  Paesi  to  Alexan- 
der Zorzi. 


'  Catalogue  of  1844,  Part  i,  No.  1041.  di  grande  merito  indotti  turono  a  nomin- 

'  Vol.  V,  col.  1 1 59.  are  quel   raccoglitore  dalla  guasta  lezionc, 

'  "    .    .    .per  opera   di   un    Fracaiizin,  the  il   libro  nella   lettera   dcdicatoria,  con 

che  ivi  prot'essava  Lettere,  ed  era  nativu  da  altrc    niolte     d'iinportanza,    preicnta  :     le 

Munte    .AlboJdo,   terra   nella  Maica   .Ail-  ijuali  bene  spesso   vennero  adottate  da   Fra 

conitana ;    non   di  un   Montalboddo  Fra-  Arcangelo  da  Madrignano,"  &c.  {Lettera 

canzano  Vicentino,  siccome  scrittori  anche  rarissima,  pp.  45-46). 

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I 


I  52 1.        In  the  first   place,  we  had  the  authority  of  Hum- 

,  boldt*,  and  in  the  second  place  the  explicit  statement  of 

Baldelli,  upon  which  it  is  based.  Baldelli,  in  his  ex- 
tremely curious  note'  to  the  Milione,  mentions  his  dis- 
covery in  the  Magliabechi  Library  of  a  copy  of  the  col- 
lection of  voyages  known  as  the  Paesi  ot  1507,  which 
contained  a  transcript  of  a  letter  stating  that  when  Bar- 
tholomew Columbus  visited  Rome  in  1505  he  made  a 
present  of  the  account  of  his  brother's  discoveries  to  a 
certain  canon,  who  afterwards  gave  it  to  "  the  compiler 
of  the  said  collection — comptlatore  della  raccolta  pre- 
detta."  Not  having  the  means  of  consulting  that  let- 
ter, which,  so  far  as  we  know,  has  never  been  printed, 
we  were  constrained  to  accept  Baldelli's  version  of  it, 
which  we  had  no  reason  to  question.  At  all  events, 
Humboldt  was  perfectly  justified  in  making  his  state- 
ment on  the  authority  of  Baldelli.  It  is  only  for  those 
who  have  had  the  good  fortune  of  reading  the  contents 
of  the  letter  itself  to  state,  if  such  is  the  case,  that  the 
learned  editor  of  Marco  Polo's  Milione  misunderstood 
its  purport.  True  it  is  that  the  manuscript  additions 
to  the  Magliabechi  copy  contain  notes,  which  are  also 
ascribed  to  Zorzi,  and  imply  a  date  later  than  1507,  but 
there  is  xii>  evidence  that  Zorzi  was  not  living  as  late  as 
1524.  Zeno,  Fontanelli,  Tiraboschi,  and  nearly  all 
the  historians  of  Italian  Literature,  whose  works  we 
have  been  able  to  consult,  ignore  our  Zorzi,  but  we  can 


•  Examtn  Critijue,  Vol.  IV,  p.  80  {iJ. 
lupra,  p.  96). 

*  **  l-'na  scopcrta  tla  me  faita,  reca  alcuiii  lumj, 
r  nccessita  dcllc  rettiticaziniii  import..-'iIi,  rclativa- 
mcnte  all*  illustrazinne  ill  qucsto  cciehrc  mappa- 
mnitilo  [fra  Mauro'sJ.  KsiXc  nrlla  Dihliitlrcn  Ntag- 
liabrchiana  iL'lass.  xiii.  var.  Hatch.  i<.  Ccul.  n.  11. 
€84.)  1;.  celcbrc  Raccolta  \'iceiitiru  dcllr  navig,i. 
zioiir  tlci  Purtu^hcsi,  dclla  >uialc  sara  in  accoticio 
in  altro  lunpo  il  ra^ionarr^  ilivisa  rsprcssamcntc  in 
Juc  volumifUMo  ctititcrifiite  gli  scuoprimciiti  oricn- 
talif  I'altro  gli  occidciitali.  V.  il  prime  volume 
itttitnlato  Nicolo  Coriti :  e  cio  pcrche  il  viaggiu 
del  medesintu  dclla  dedatura  originale  del  Poggio 
i  ill  trnnte  del  volume.  II  sccoiido  e  intitotaio  Al- 
berico,  pcrchtr  coiitiene  Ic  naviga'zioni  Ji  Amcrico 
Vespucci.  Cii)  che  rende  pregievoliss:m..  detta 
raccolta  i  the  vi  sono  ^taie  aggiiintc  k  rrU/ioni 
tnleteuantuiinie  ed  inedile  di  parecclii    'aggiaiuri 


classate  per  ordine  cronologico.  Ho  con  diligenza 
siudiata  qucsti  raccolta,  ed  ho  scoperto  chi  iie  fosse 
il  raccoglitore.  Ncl  volume  sccondo,  dopo  la 
copia  d'uiia  lettcra  di  ^imoIlc  del  Verde  Kioreiitiiio, 
scritta  di  ^pagiia  a  .Matteo  Cirii  mercante  Fioren- 
tltio  in  \'ene/.ia  a  di  z.  (.eniiaio  1498.  'Stil, 
Fiorenttnoi  nctia  .quale  lo  ragguaglia  della  prima 
navigazioiie  del  Ctdombo,  segue:  Mntorma^iotie 
di  Bartolommeo  Colombo  della  iiavigazion  di  Ho. 
neiite,  e  (jarbin  ncl  Mondo  Nuovo'  e  si  racconta 
rhc  iieir  essere  Bartolommeo  in  Roma  iiel  1505, 
I  opo  la  morte  di  sun  fratello  Criatoforo  la  diedc  ad 
Uh  *rale  jeroniino  Caiioiiii.o  regolare  in  ^.  (;iovaii 
LatetAno,  e  .jue>ti  e>sen.lo  in  Venezia  diedc  jui 
carta  ori  dt-tti  !>cuoprimenti«  e  la  relazione  di  Bar* 
loloniir.eo  ad  Alessandro  Zorzi,  suo  amico  1  .'•«* 
fiUtart  ittUa  raudtu  prtJrttj  (V.  II.  Intit.  Alber. 
p.  81."  iVor/d  Jtl  MiliiKt  i  Klorer\ce,  ^to, 
1827,  \'ol.  I,  p.  XXXII,  nttt. 


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find  nothing  in  Foscarini*  (who  seems  to  be  the  foun-     1^21. 

tain-head  of  all  information  concerning  this  viaggiatore     

erudito)  which  precludes  the  possibility  of  his  having 
annotated  his  owh  work.  But  we  always  defer  cheer- 
fully to  che  opinion  of  those  in  whose  experience  and 
erudition  we  have  been  taught  to  place  confidence,  and 
did  not  hesitate  to  substitute  the  name  of  Fracanzano 
Montalboddo  in  the  place  of  that  of  Alessandro  Zorzi 
us  the  author  of  this  most  valuable  collection  of  voyages, 
— which  at  no  distant  day  we  intend  to  reprint  word 
for  word,  without  notes  or  additions  of  any  kind. 

Direct  re/erencei :  <  Ternaux,  Bihiiotheifue  ^mericaine.  No.  13. 
<    Bi/i/iol/ieca  Grenii/iiana,  page  765. 
{    Hanrutt.  Langlcs  and  Libri  1  1859)  Cacaloguei. 
Brunet,  Vol.  V,  col.  1 1  59. 


I  10.   MARTYR  {PETER)— ff^ithin  a  bonier  designed  by  Holbein: 
DK     NVPER  II  SVB     D.  CAROLO     REFER/ litis 

Infulis,  iimulat(5  incolarum  ||  moribus,  R. 

Petri  Marty/ II  ris,  Enchiridion,  Domi/||neE 

Margaritas,  Diui  ||  Max.  Caef.  liliae  ||  dicatum. 

%  BASILEAE,  ANNO  II  M.D.XXL* 

^erso  of  the  title-page : 
MAGNIFICO  EQy(  ||  TI    lONM   CATENAEO  SALE- 

DiEXsi  RXBEi  II  naco,  diui  quonda  Maxi- 
miliani  CaBf.  Augufti,  nunc  diuze  Mar- 
ga  II  ritae  Auguftae  liliae  medico  clariflimo  || 
Adam  Petri  deditiflimus.  || 


'  Delia  Lrtiirnlura  ^fnrziV/na,  Lib.  viii,  CDncernini!  the   customs   of  their  inhabit- 

pagt  ^I 5,  «of/  169.  ants.       Dedicated    to    I.ady    Margaret    [of 

*  Anglic'e :  An  abridgement   cimccrning  Flundfirs],  daughter  of  the  Empress  Maiii- 

the  islan.h   recently  discovered   under  the  milian  Fand  aunt  of  Charlei    V].      Bade, 

reign  of  the    Emperor   Charles;   and  also  ijii. 


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1521, 


*^*  4to,  title  one  leaf-f-  twenty-one  leaves;  twenty-eight  lines  in 
a  full  page  ;   Roman  characters. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 


Judging  from  the  following  lines  (on  the  second  leaf): 

Ex  MEARUM  decadu  libellis  in  uulgus 
emiflis  colligere  licet,  Pater  fand:e/  fugi- 
tiiios  quofdam  ad  uicina  Darienfis  appuHos 
noftrorum  libellos  admirantes  dixiffe  .... 

the  present  is  only  an  extract  from  the  fo  irth  Decade, 
made  by  Peter  Martyr  himself;  and  not,  as  it  is  an- 
nounced in  a  well-known  catalogue",  "  a  rare  edition, 
scarcely  known  to  bibliographers,  which  is  neither  con- 
tained in  the  Decades  of  the  same  author,  nor  an  extract 
froiii  them,  but  is  the  very  interesting  and  curious  Ori- 
ginal Account  of  the  Discovery  of  those  isles." 

This  extract  is  inserted  in  all  the  editions  of  the 
Novus  Orl^is\  and  added  to  the  Antwerp  reprint  of 
Brocard's  Descriptio  Terra"  Sancta\  It  was  published  in 
French  by  Simon  de  Co  lines*,  and  in  German  by  Honiger' 
von  Konigshofen.  We  find  Jiiany  references  to  the 
reprints  of  this  abstract  in  the  early  writers  on  Mexico. 
It  mentions  the  Grijalva  expedition,  and,  we  believe, 
the  first  voyages  to  Darien. 

Direct  rrferences :  I    Panzer,  jinnales  Typogr.,  Vol.  vi,  pagr  117. 

■j    Mazzi'cheli.i,  G!i  Siritt'.ri  it lulia,  Vol.  i,  Part  11,  page  776. 
I    NiciRoN,  Memnires,  Vol.  .V\ITI,  p.igr  211. 
TtRNAix,  Bihlioth'tjur  yimericaine.  No.  24. 
Bihliolheca   Heheriarta,  P.irt  »,  No.  1 706. 
Bihtiolhfa  Brotviiara,  p.»i;c  II,  No.  53. 
Brl'Nf.t,  Vol.  I,  col.  294. 
Graessf.,  Vol.  I,  page  1  jo. 


'  nohn's,  I.ond.,  1S47,  p.  455. 

'  E  lit.  oK  B.isic,  I  5^1,  pp.  ^70-584;  ot" 

"15  5'  P-  497.  iq- 

'   1556,    and    not     lS37i    'i'     '»    »tatrd 

(!./•<»,    p.    115. 


'   Pjri?,  I  532  {infra). 

'  <i/>ai  Dfr  Netven  tVeldt  und  In- 
diaxiichen  Nidtrgangischen  Konigreich\  j 
Basil,  J  vols,  fol.,  i;g2-8},  Vol.  11. 
(Private  Libr.,  N.  V.  and  Providence.) 


SI 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  189 

III.   MONTALBODDO-DU  REDOUER—Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  1  C  2  I  ( 


Sdl^nfnQt  it  1l0niittf(iit  nto- 
))(  ii  na  II  m0att0n0 :  /at-  n 

ftrs  pat  Emetic  tre  befpuce  jFlotentin  ©ess  gaps 
rt  iacst  nouueUem^t  ttouue^  i  au  pau^lt  II  ano?  irag= 
ncujCant  eu  letijiope  q  attatiecallUriiut  r  aulttest 
plufieut!8  tegtonet  efttanges  ||  Ctanflate  tie  i)talie 
en  langue  ftancoiife  pat  ||  mattutin  tiu  reHourt 
liccde  est  logfii  XX'. 

Then  vignette  representing  a  circle,  with  the  constellations. 
In  fine : 

C  €b  fittift  Ic  liute  intitule  le  nouueau  mfitie  r 
nauigation  ||  He  l&metic  tie  befpure  lies  nauigatids 
faiftes  p  le  tog  He  pot  ||  tugal  est  pajia  Hes  motes  et 
aulttes  tegionis  et  D(uet»  paijs  II  Jmptime  a  ^atis 
pat  ^ijelippe  le  floit.  || 


*^*  Sm.  4to  for  size,  signatures  a  i,  a  ii  a  iii  -f-  ""c  blank,  then 
b  i,  b  ii,  &c.  Title  one  leaf  +  three  unnumbered  leaves  + 
eighty-eight  numbered  leaves.     Text  in  Gothic. 

(Harvard  College  Library.) 

Philip  le  Noir  was  the  son  of  Michael  Le  Noir,  who 
printed  at  Paris  as  early  as  1489.  He  succeeded  his 
father  in  1514,  and  we  find  his  name  among  the  twenty- 
four  printers  who  exercised  their  art  in  Paris  under  the 
enlightened  rule  of  Francis  I,  in  1521*.     We  place  this 


'  "  Ces  chlffres  qu'on  trouve  tres-sou-  cette  marque  au  lieu  d'imprimer  un  re- 
vent,  iur  le  titrc,  et  d'autres  fois  a  la  tin  gistre."  De  Buitc,  afud  Nu.  4543  oi 
du  volume,  indiquent  le  nombrc  des  sig-  Catal.  La  Valliere. 

natures  qui  composent  la   totaliti-  de  I'ou-  '  Uidot,  art.    Tyftgrapkie,  in  Emcjfch- 

vrage   ....   Les   imprimeurs  mettaient  fiJii  Afodirne,  Vol.  16,  p.  754. 


190 


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1^ 


w 


1 52 1.*  edition    under    the    latter  date,   solely  in  deference  to 

Brunet's  remark  that  "d'apres  le  nom  du  libraire,  elle 

ne  peut  etre  anterieure  a  I'annee  1521." 
The  passage,  Chapt.  cvii,  f.  lxviii: 

"  . . . .  latimiral  et  fon  Utxt  lefquels  furit  mis 
cs  fcrsi  X  enuoije^  a  la  bolte  IBefpaigne  et  tiesj  cc 
quiU  futft  acurtirfis  Ic  Mop  tx  la  rojjne  Uefpaigne 
Ics  enuoijcrtnt  tieliutcr  ft  leg  tiircut  benir  a  Icur 
court  boulontairement  en  latiueHc  au  prcfcnt  iout 
lis  fc  trouuercnt" 

might  lea'^  to  the  belief  that  the  work  was  written  as 
early  as  1506,  but  for  two  similar  assertions  which  we 
find  in  the  Itinerarium  (ch.  cviii.)  and  the  Unbekanthe 
Landte,  {ch.  108),  both  of  which  were  printed  as  late  as 
1508.     We  even  read  it  in  the  Novus  Orbis  of  1532  ! 

Dirtii  referincn  :  I  Camus,  Mimoires  tur  de  Bry,  page  346. 
Li-vrts  Curieux,  No.  no. 
Brunet,  Vol.  V,  col.  1 1 60. 


1522.      112.     POMP.  MEI.^-l^ADlAN.— Within  a  wide  ornamented  border : 
^   POMPONII     ME  II  LAE    DE  ORBIS  SITV 

LiBRi  TREs.  AccvRATis  ||  lime  emcndati,  una 
cu  Commetariis  loachimi  ||  Vadiani  Helu- 
etii  calligatioribus,  &  multis  ||  in  locis  auc- 
toribiis  factis :  id  quod  cadi  ||  dus  ledor 
orbiter,    8c    in    tranfcurfu  |1  facile     depre- 


*  So  much  stress  has  been  placed  by 
Foglietta(  W(i75r/<*'  Gtnueniium  libri  .\ii; 
Genoa,  (ol.,  I  585,  fol.  1 10,  republished  in 
Gb«vius  Thesaurus  anliq.  Iial.  Vol.  1) 
on  the  untortunate  voyage  ot  Dotia  and 
Vivaldi,  the  two  Genoese  navigators  who 
are  supposed  to  have  anticipated  Colum- 
bus toward  the  end  of  the  thirteenth  cen- 


tury, that  we  must  notice,  at  least  in  a 
note,  the  earliest  authority  for  the  state- 
ment. It  is  Petf.r  n'ABANo,  Conciliator 
different,  philosophor.}  Mantua,  fol.,  1492; 
many  editions  ( in  that  of  Venice,  fol.. 
I  521,  the  statement  is  on  fol.  97).  Ca- 
son;,  Annalei ;  Genoa,  fol.,  1708,  p.  18, 
should  also  be  consulted. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  ,g, 

hendet.  II  ADiECTA  funt   praeterea   loca   ali-    1522. 

quot  ex  vADiANi  com  II  mentarijs  fummatim — 

repetita,  &  obiter  explicata :  in  quibus  || 
aeltimandis  cenfendifcj  doariffimo  uiro 
loanni  camerti  I|  ordinis  Minonim  Theo- 
logo,  cum  loachimo  vadiano  ||  non  ad- 
modum  conuenit.  ||  rvrsvm,  Epiftola  Vadi- 
ani,  ab  eo  pene  adulefcente  ad  Ru||dolph- 
um  Agricolam  iuniorem  fcripta,  non  in- 
digna  Icdu,  ||  nee  inutilis  ad  ea  capienda, 
quae  aliubi  in  Commentarijs  luis  libare 
magis,  quam  longius  explicare  uoluit.  || 

Cantem  est  priuilegio.  ne  alibi  hoc  opus  proximo  trienno  imprimatur. 

BASILEAH,     ANNO. 
M.D.XXII. 

Colophon : 

basilrae,    APVD    ANDREAM    CRATAN'  [|  drvm, 
MKXSE   lANVARIO,  ANNO  j|  M.DcXXII. 

"* '  hS  /'"'"  T  i""^."^  ".*""'""  preliminary  leaves  unnum- 
bered  +  two  hundred  and  twenty-two  numbered  pages  +  one 
unnumbered  leaf  with  verso  blank  +  another  title -f- fortv- 
one  leaves  +  one  leaf- with  recto  blank,  and  verso  comaining 
the  prmter's  mark.  » 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

"Seconde  edition  de  Vadianus  [the  first  being  dated   iciSlfort 
changee  et  corr.gee  sur  des  MSS..  le  commentaire  contient  bea.coup 
de  notices  uti  es.  ma.s  une  foule  de  choses  bizarres.  p.  ex    il  raconte 

Tj.i::'''V'  ''""'r  '''"''  ''  ''"''^'  "'  -  --   ^-deliS 

ci  adjuurt..         (Graesse  .) 

We  must  warn  our  readers  that  the  above  is   not  the 
only  obnoxious  passage  in  the  present  work.    The  InJex 

'    Tretcr,  Vol.  v,  p.  401. 


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.'A 


% 


I  C2  2.    Libr.  Prohib.  Expurg.  6f  Damn}  gives  a  long  list,  in  the 

•——s!^-s-  interesting  passage,  which  begins  on  page  557,  in  these 

words :    "  Post   adhibitam  notam  Auctoris   damnati," 

and  ends  with    "  —  In  tit.    Epist.    loach.   Vadiani   ad 

Rudolphum  Agricola,  quae  incipit.  Grata  admodum  ifta: 

gratia,  dele,  a  Cajare  laureatus." 

This  edition  should  contain  the  map  described  supra 
No,  108,  and  which  is  thus  described  by  MuUer*  : 

"  America  appears  on  it  as  a  narrow  strip  of  land  extending  from 
jjth  degree  of  southern  latitude  to  about  65°  N.  A  broad  channel 
traverses  the  isthmus  of  Panama.  More  remarkable  still  is  the  out- 
line of  Greenland,  which  bears  here  the  same  name  as  on  the  cele- 
brated Zeni*  chart,  namely  Engronelant.  The  configuration 
also  of  the  country  is  so  much  alike  in  both,  that  they  must  have 
proceeded  from  the  same  source." 

See  on  the  recto  of  the  first  leaf  following  F-f4,  the  passage  : 

"  Ex  recentiorum  autem  inquiiitione,  li 
Americam  a  Vefpuccio  repertam,  &  earn 
Eoae  terras  partem,  quae  terras  a  Ptolemaeo 
cognits  adieda  eft,  ad  longitudinis  habi- 
tatae  rationem  referimus,  longe  ultra  hem- 
isphaerium  habitari  terra  coftat :  Imo  non 
uic^adeo  imenfum  pelagus  interefle  inter 
extimum  ab  America  occides  &  oriens 
Ptol.  poftremum,  quin  fere  toto  globi  am- 


*  Madrid,  folio,  1667. 

'  Catalogue  i  Berlin,  1861,  No.  86. 

•  In  DE  I  COMMENTARII  DEL  || 
l^iaggio  in  Periia  di  M.  Caierino  Ztno  il 
K.  II  &  deUe  guerre  falie  netP  Imperio 
Periiano,  \\  dal  tempo  di  ysiuniiiisano  in 
7»d.  IIlibri  Dvr.  II  £r  DELLO  SCO- 
PRIMENTO\\deir  hole  Fris/anJa,  Es- 
latida,  Engrouelanda,  Eslo  \\  lilanda,  £sf 
Icaria,  faiio  toito  it  Polo  Artico,  da  |!  due 

fratiUi  zeni,  M.  Niioli,  il  K.  e  M.   Anto- 
nio. 11  UBIO    VMO.  II  CON    VN    PliEGNO    PAI- 


TIcoLARt  DI  II  lutte  le  Jette  parte  di  Tra- 
montana  da  lor  tcoperte.  |j  con  gkatia,  et 
PRIVILEGIO.  II 

VERI  [woodcut^  TAS.  || 

•"  IN  VENETIA  il  Per  Franceuo  Marco- 
lini.  MDLVHI. 

%*  i2mo,  58  lumb.  tf. 

(Private  Libr..  Brooklyn.) 

See  also  concerning  the  two  Zenis,  their 
voyages  and  maps,  Zukla,  Di  Marco 
Polo  a  degli  altri  l^iuggiatori  f'eneiciani  j 
Venice,  410,  18 18,  Vol.  11,  pp.  7-94. 


Bibliotheca   .  imericana . 


»9J 


bitu  terra  habitationis  trequentia  culta  fit,    1522. 

quod  ex  Geographicae  defcriptionis  globulo ' 

perpulchre  dinofci  potert." 

D/..,  -./....:,    F^.,„^  ;,„,,,,,    ,_,,,^,     ,^^^^^    ^.^     _^_^    ^^^^_     _^ 

Bihlioi/ieca  Barlowiami, . 

Ebirt,  Diciionury,  N».   \%bu). 


113.     ANoNrMOVS^^ynhtn  a  wide  ornamented  harder  ■ 

^ranifom  flcmo  Hi^tifo  burd)  H  JBice  Jtteij  in  Weo-- 
^laleillfroto  »lor(|arftrii  ^fr^ogift  m  JBur  ||  dunJii  tu 
gefdjrilieit.* 

Then  a  very  unseemly  portrait  of  the  Emperor. 
On  verso  of  the   title,  a   complicated    coat-of-arms,   repeated   on 
the  verso  of  the  last  leaf,  with  this  inscription  on  a  scroll  : 


AH. 


5»7i 


<t«g  vonAu. 


%*  Sm.  4to.  sine  anno  aut  loco,  title  one  leaf  +  three   unnumbered 
leaves ;  many  woodcuts  ;   no  water-mark. 

The  conquest   of  the   city   of   Mexico    hy   Cortes   is 
shghtly  alluded  to  on  verso  of  A  iij,  in  these  words  : 

"9«t  iueit  ba  bfr  felben  infel  ^abeii  ||  ft)  erobert  eiit 
flat  genaiit  ^citufiitoii  i  in  bemi  gcjalt  )lnb  fadii^ig  tfln-- 
entliorb  ftattipn  mU  ei-|jnfr  gutcit  rinrftljmourfii  iiige.- 

(Private  Libr.iry,  New  York.) 


*  AngUci:  Tr.injiation  froiii  the  Spinish 
into  Frencli        "  


t  Anjlui  :  \,,t  Ki 


Kumiv.  ""'«"^"'    ""''•"»    "f     »''r-      man,  wlu-rem  ^ixty  thousand  l>eartl,.s  I,. 

been  loutired,  within  a  goo,)  incloiurc. 


gundy 


25 


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1 94  Ribliotheca    Americana. 

1522.  1  I  if.     I'ARTHEM^.UIylS— Recto  of  the  first  leaj : 


II 


i 


Jtinevano  dc  l£uil0tti(o  de  ^avii 

t1)rma  Uolognrfe  nr  lo  ISgnptoue  la  ^ujltiai 
nr  la  Hrabia  Drfma  r  felircnr  la  |)ct  ||  fiame  la 
^n)iia  r  nr  la  ]Stf)iopta.  Ha  frlic  ||  rl  biucrr  r  tfsU 
tumi  tie  le  pcefatr  prouiurie.  II  I&t  a(  ptefente 
agiontout  alrt)unr  Jfole  no  1 1|  uamente  Mittouatte.  II 

Then  (ine  vignette  representing  a  man  hent  on  a  globe. 
Ctkpbon  : 

C  Stampata  in  Venetia  per  li  hcredi  de 
Georgio  di  l!  Rufconi  Nellanno  della  in- 
carnationc  del  no||rtro  fignor  lefu  Chrifto. 
M.D.XXII.  adillXVII.  de  Setembrio.  Reg- 
nado  lo  ||  inclito  Principe  Antonio  ||  Gri- 
mano.  || 


•^*   Sni.   8vo  ;  title  one  lear+  one  hundred  and  one  unnumbered 
leaves,  printed  in  two  columns,  in  Roman  characters. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

The  Itinerary  of  Grijalva  commences  on  the  verso  of 
signature  M.  It  is  this  edition  which  supplied  the  text 
for  Munoz*,  Navarrete's  and  Prescott's  transcripts, 
made  from  the  copy  in  the  Columbian  library  at  Seville, 
once  the  property  of  Fernando  Columbus,  and  then 
supposed  to  be  the  6nly  copy  in  existence.  The  text, 
together  with  a  translation  into  Spanish,  have  been  pub- 
lished by  Senor   Icazbalceta'. 


'  In  CtUccim  dt  DuuiKtnioi  intditoi  pur  has  been  supplied  with  different  readings, 
Im  Hiilaria  dt  MexiiO,  Vul.  I,  p.  307,  copied  from  an  earlier  edition,  and  which 
If.     The    learned    Mesican    bibli<>^r.ipher      will  probably  appear  in  his  second  volume. 


Bibliolheca    .fmericana. 
lie.     ANnNTMOVS— Recti  of  tbt  fint  Itnf : 


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CtKV' 


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196 


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I  C22.         *«*   4'">   ^""'   '"""  ''*'  ^"^"t   c'8^"  leaves,   text    in    Gothic    type. 

VVatcr-mark,  a  large  P. 
""^^^^^"^  (Private  LIbrar.,  New  York  and  Ptuvidence.) 

"  Containing  an  abridged  account  ot'  the  voyages  of  Columbus, 
and  ot  the  conquest  of  Mexico  down  to  the  year  1522,  was  printed, 
it  is  supposed,  at  Augsburg  by  Sigmund  Grimm,  about  1^22." 

(;v.  r.  Syii<uh\) 

'•  Mr.  Panizzi's  MS.  account  of  the  book  inserted  in  the  volume 
[Grenville  copv]  is  very  interesting:  he  thinks  Tcrnaux  had  not 
seen  it,  because  he  states  that  the  account  extends  only  to  I  $19, 
whereas  it  extends  to  i$22,  in  which  year  it  was  probably  printed. 
At  the  end  is  the  device  of  Augsburg,  a  pine  cone,  and  no  doubt  it 
was  printed  theic." 

( Bihtiolheia  (irenvilliana*. ) 

There  is  a  full  account  of  Sigmund  Grimm  in  Zapf's 
Aug^sburgs  Ruchdru':kergeschichte\  and  Pan/er*  gives  the 
list  of  all  the  works  known  to  have  been  printed 
by  this  "  Gelehrter  und  Doctor  der  Ar/neygelehrsam- 
keit"  from  1517  to  1524  the  year  in  which  Zapf  sup- 
poses him  to  have  died,  but  in  neither  work  do  we 
find  a  reference  to  the  book  before  us.  We  infer  that 
it  is  ascribed  to  Grimm  on  account  of  a  supposed 
resemblance  in  the  type. 

Direil  rtferencei :  l    Tehnaux,  Nh.  11. 

I  Killiothfia  Bi'iivniana,  p.igr  lo,  No.  ^1. 

I  1  6.     ytNONYMors     H^ithin  n  border  ; 

C  ©f  tije  ncujf  Ultrcs  aiiti  of  ij'  people  ||  fountre 
b5  ti)e  meffengers  of  ti)e  Ivijn  ||  ge  of  portggalf 
nameli  iSmanuel.  ||  ^X  t1)e  .x.  tiimer»  narjons  erpfs 
teneti.  ||  ©f  pope  Joi)n  anli  Ijis  lanlres  auH  of  tije 
eofteln  iteneg  anti  luontiets  molo  ||  tii)es  t1)at  in  t1)at 
lantie  is.  || 

*  Ar.^Hii :    Pleasant    mw    tidings,    re-  '   .A|i|iendix,   p.    LVii,   from    which    we 

cently  cinie   trimi   India   to   His    Iinpi-ri.il  boriow  thr  preceding-  wiMKJcur. 
Majcst).      Very    lieautitul   lonieining   tlie  '  P.irf  ii,  p    115. 

new  islands  an. I  their  >  ustoms,  very  ainus-  '  Vol.  1,  p.  xi.iv. 

ing  to  read.  '   Annala   T\pOj;r.,  Vol    .xi,  p.  105. 


I 


Hibtiolhec<i    A  merit  ana. 


•97 


Then  wnodcut  representing  a  man  decked  with  feathers,  standing      I  ^22> 
with  a  spear  in  one  hand  and  an  arrow  'n  the  other,  a  woman  is  seated  _,^^.^.^_ 
nursing  a   child,   whilst    trom    a   tree  hang   the    head  and   legs   of  a 
man. 

On  the  reverse  of  the  title  four  woodcut?,  viz. :  an  elephant,  .i 
griflin  carrying  otf  a  man,  a  pha-nix  rising  trom  the  flames,  and  a 
man  with  one  eye  in  the  middle  of  his  forehead. 

Redo  ef  the  first  leaf  after  the  title : 

llk)rrr  aforr  tpmrg  in  t1)r  ijcrr  of  our  ILotTir  goli. 
Hjl.ccf.f..rcbi.  r  fo  tr  iwitl)  fi))jppr!8  of  ILaffrtonu 
[Lisbon]  faijleti  oute  of  IJortijngaIr  tJ)tougi)  tije 
ramanUcmft  of  t1)f  Upngr  iSmanuel  *o1)auf  U)r 
1)ati  out  b5agri,lfov  i)i»  fortune  nlantrs  oucr  tiie 
grrat  frr  U)it1)  great  ii)argr  anti  tinftgrr  fo  1)aur  tor 
at  tijc  laftc  foflnlir  oon  [?]  lortifliyp  luijerr  U)e 
faijlfti  torll.  \x.  r.  m))le»  ti;  t1)r  rooftr  of  3flanlir» 
t1)rrr  lue  at  ij'  laftr  lurnt  a  lantir  tut  tliat  latir  is 
not  nob)r  linoUir  for  t1)crr  l)aue  no  maftrr^  U)rntrn 
ti)rrrof  nor  it  fcnoU)(t1)r  anti  it  is  namrT)  ^rmrnira 
[j/V]iti)crc  IMC  faU)r  mrnn  Uiolirrs  of  t)riftr»  anti 
folulrs  K  U)f  f)auc  nrurr  frrn  brforntiir  propU  of 
x\^\^  lantir  1)aur  no  kpngr  nor  lortir  nor  tiirnr 
goD  Uut  all  ti)ingcs  is  romunr  tljig  proplc  gortl) 
all  naUrti  Uut  tl)r  mm  anti  luotnrn  i)aur  on  tlinjr 
i)peti  ncrfecilrmrsiknrrgianti  frtr  all  U)it1)  frtrcrs 
bontirn  for  t1>rrf  tcUitynrs  r  faprrncs.  ^\)tU  folkc 
lijurn  lijlsp  trftrs  U)itl)0ut  ann  rrfonatlrnrg  anli  ti)r 
luijmrn  1)r  alfo  as  ronton.  Hnti  t1)r  mm  1)at1)  ron:: 
urrfanon  toitl)  t1)r  toinnm  i  U)l)o  tijat  t1)nj  t)m  or 
to1)o  tl)n)  fnrft  mrtnis  f1)r  Ijis  fnftrrljis  motirr 
ijis  t)augl)tcr  I  or  anij  otl)rr  fenrrtr.  Hnti  tl)r  loimim 
be  lierij  Ijootr  antj  tijjfpofcti  to  Icrijcrtinrg.  Entj  tl)rj) 


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1522.  rte  alfo  on  a  nottet  (!rf)e  man  (trH)e  lib  \usfe  1)i0 
--^  -  -  ri)j)ltitcnc  I  a0  U)c  alfo  ijaue  feen  anW  ti)C5  i}an8e  alfo 
tf)e  totises  ot  perfons  fleefd)e  in  t1)e  fmottr  as  men 
Ho  tuiti)  bi9  nusnris  flcfl)^.  ^n)i  tfiat  lanHe  i%  rsBtt 
full  of  folke  I  for  W^tj^  Inue  romonlg  .iii.  c.  sete  r 
more  as  in  fsif'neffe  t1)ej)  H^e  not  Hie^  tafce  mucf) 
fsffi)e  for  ttes  can  goen  bntier  tte  toater  anH  fecte 
fo  t^e  f$fc1)e0  out  of  t1)e  Daater.  r  t1)es  tnerre  alfo 
bpon  a  notter  1  for  t1)e  oltie  men  br^nge  tf)e  gonge 
men  t^erto  1  t1)at  tl)es  gather  a  great  company  t1)eres 
to  of  totoe  parties  1  anti  comette  on  asene  ti)e  otter 
to  ti)e  feltie  of  bategllir  flee  on  ti)e  ot1)er  toitf)  great 
f)epes.  Enti  totue  toDxe  t1)e  fgltieittes  tafce  t|)e 
otter  prsfoners  anH  t^eg  brgnge  ttem  to  Hett  an)i 
ete  ttemianti  as  t1)e  oeeD  is  eten  tten  fleg  ttej?  t1)e 
reftijUnti  ttes  been  ttan  eten  alfo  1  or  ottertosfe 
Isue  ttej)  longer  for  t^es  taue  coftelg  fpgces  r 
rotes  I  bitere  ttes  ttem  felfe  recouer  toitl)  1  an)i  t^ls 
ttem  as  ttes  be  felte. 

The  work  then  treats  of  the  black  Mores,  of  the  lande  of  Allagt, 
Arabia,  oi great  Indyen,  of  Gutscbin  that  Kjngedtme,  of  /i»^  x  dyuerce 
cristened  nations  ;  each  subject  preceded  by  an  appropriate  woodcut. 
After  the  letter  of  Pope  John,  dated  ••  Written  in  oure  holy  f  allays  in 
the  byrtb  of  my  selfe  .v,  bidred  and  seuen  ,•"  we  find  the  following 
colophon  : 

IBmprentec  bg  me  Jop  of  Sefboroboe: 

with  a  woodcut  representing  a  crown  surmounting  the  escutcheon, 
three  lions  quartered  with  three  fleurs-de-lys.  On  the  last  page  is  a 
woodcut  representing  justice  crowned,  blindfolded,  holding  a  sceptre 
and  a  wheel,  underneath  which  an  unintelligible  line  in  Greek. 

*^*  410,    sine   anno   aut    loco,    twenty-four    unnumbered    leaves, 
thirty  lines  in  a  full  page. 

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Thus  far,  the  present  is  the  first  book  in  the  English  I  522t 
language  containing  a  notice  of  America  (called  therein  — ^-^_ 
Armenica).  Herbert'  is  of  opinion  that  from  mention- 
ing Emanuel,  King  of  Portugal,  and  exclaiming  against 
Luther,  this  work  may  have  been  printed  "about  1521 
or  1522,"  when  King  Kmanuel  died,  and  Luther  was 
burnt  in  effigy.  As  to  the  printer,  John  of  Does- 
borough  or  Jan  van  Doesborch*,  he  printed  at  Antwerp, 
perhaps  as  early  as  1502',  but  as  late  as  1525*. 


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'  HiiiEiiT,  Tyfograpkical  ylniijuitiei,  Viil.  ill,  page  I53). 
Bihiitlhtca  Grinvilliana,  pjge   24. 
LowNiiM,  Manual,  Part  v.  page  I  )o6. 


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117.     ProLF.Xtr-FRlSlVS—if'iibin  an  ornamented  border: 

CLAVDII  PTOLEM^:i  ||  alrxandrini 
Mathematicoi^  principis/  opus  Geographic  i| 
nouiter  caftigatu  &  emaculatu  additioibus. 
raris  et  iuuifis.  necnon  ||  cu  tabularum 
in  dorlo  iucunda  explanationc.  Rcgiltro 
quocp  totius  II  operis.  tarn  (leographico.  cj 
etia  hilloriali.  facillimu  introitu  prebeti.  || 

ORDO  CONTKNTO 

RVM     IN     HOC     LIBRO    TOTALI. 

ocTo  libri  Geographii^  ipi'ius  Autoris  ad 
antiquitate  fuam  in-  ||  tcgri  &  finevlla  cor- 
ruptioe.  cum   collationc   didionu   grccaru 

'  Pan/ek,  Anniilfi    'ipo^r..   Vol.  v,   p.  .T/ji.uj/,  Vol.  i,  p.  42,  jnJ  \iiiirt\i^.  Library 

46X,  Vol.  XI,  p.  101.  Companion,  p.   174  (ei,  \i^^). 

'  See  the  first  edition  of  J'^f  Bjmf I  o/'Mf  '   PANtfcK,   Annalet    Typograptid,  Vol. 

Bay. Hi,  Cuitot  Maytri  and  ^hertfi  (9A(.\i-  xi,  p.  155,  .ind    Bihiiophilt  Beige,  Vol.  v, 

ard    Arnold's  Chnmitlesl;   cf.   Lowndii.  p.  ill. 


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1522.  e  rcgioc  II  ad  latinas.  ccrliflima  graduu  cal- 
■■" — ^ — culatioe  cxaminati.  || 

RKcisTRVM  Item  alphabcticu  omniu  re- 
gionu.  prcfcc^tururu  llciuitaru.  l^'luuio.  ma- 
riu.  laciiu.  portuu  Siliiai*.  oppidoi^.  villayt. 
gen  II  till  &  hilloriarf)  i'lngula  ccrtiirimo  in- 
dicc  monllrans. 

POST  hoc  Scquutur  tabulc.  qiiaij  nCicro. 
xxvij  cTut.  Prima  tcz  CicncralC  orbis  dc- 
fcriptionc  tradcns  iuxta  mcntc  Ptolcmyi. 
B'uropy  II  pol^  hie  tabule.  &.  Aphriey  .  iiij. 
afiy.  \ii.  et  vna  corpors  fperici  inplao  |i 

HAS  fiieeedut  iieoterieoi^  perluitratioes.  ea 
que  a''andic]s.  emitia  ||  w.  tabulis  ad  im- 
plentes.  Vx  in  haru  omnium,  ta  vetultioij 
cp  reeen-  i|  tioHi  tergis  expohtoes  vni  hiteri. 
alteri  \ero  hicubratioes  ineudifiime  ||  rituu. 
ealda  plagas  habitantiu  (cu  varijs  mirabilib'' 
mudi)  ineubut.  || 

I'ANDiivi  breuis  lul)  oritur  doctrina.  igno- 
ratibus  \'iam  pry  ||  bens  frudu  auieultandi 
Cieographieu/  Qiiy  hue  vlcjj  multis  in-  || 
eognita/  &:  lepulta  de  lituit  (iaudcwt  igit 
Led  or  optimus.jl 

UKC  bona  mente  Lauretiiis  l^hriiius  artis 
Appolline(j"  doctor  x||  mathematical^  artium 
dientui  111  luecm  iuillt  prodire.  ||  Agam- 
memnonis  piiteoli  phirimu  delieati  :  || 


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Colophon  : 

Joannes  Grieninger  ciuis  Argentoraten  || 
opera  et  expenris  proprijs  id  opus  infign. . 
(^Teis  II  notulis  excepit,  Laudabilicp  fine  per 
fecit  XII.  die  ||  Marcij  Anno.  M.D.XXII.  || 

♦^*  Large  foiio,  title  one  leaf -|- eighty-five  unnuml  .'cd  leaves -f 
onc  leaf  for  iphera  in  piano  -j-  forty-nine  maps,  with  descrip- 
tions un  the  reverse.     Many  well-executed  woodcuts. 

(Harvard  Cull.  Library.) 

This  Ptolemy  deriVcs  its  importance  from  the  preface  liv  Thonus 
.\iicuparius,  who  praises  Vcspuccius  extravagantly,  but  more  espe- 
cially from  the  following  maps  : 

ORBIS  .  TYPVS  .  VNIVKRSALIS  . 
IVXTA  .  HYDROGRAPHORVM  . 
TRADITIONEM  .  EXACTISSIMK  . 
DKPICTA  .  1522  .  L  .  F  .  [Laurent  Fri- 
ll us  J 

rhis  c  :hiliits  a  kind  of  promontory  advancing  from  the  border  on 
the  left  of  the  reader,  which  bears  the  names  of  liatOia^  Oam- 

bales.  Caput.  S.  cru.,  and  the  long-sought  word  Hiucr^ 

ira.      The  islands  of    Ysabclla    and    Spagnola   are  also 

ill  sight. 

It  is  Ibllowed  by  another  map  (thirtieth),  bearing  the  following 
inscription  on  a  scroll  : 

E.  TABV-LAITER    RElNOVAllFI 

O'  W  II.   and  exhibiting  only  the  eastern  shore  of  this  continent, 

with  the  word   FARIAS  between  45^-50",  whilst  below  the  equi- 
noctial line  we  read  the  usual  inscription: 

}l)cr  trrra  aun  aHiacrntit'  infulis  inuenta  rft  y 

(itriftofrtum  ||  iTolumbum  ianurnfnn  rx  manHato 

\kiw  ^aftrllr.  || 

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I  C2  2>         Then,  close  to  a  spirited  woodcut  representing  cannibals  feeding 
"^  on  human  flesh  :  TERRA  ||  NOVA. 

This  map  does  not  exhibit  the  word  ••  America"  anywhere. 

"  Extat  in  hac  editione  perrara  ad  tertiam  Africae  mappam  iam 
famosus  iste  dc  Palaestina  locus,  qui  Serveto  postca  tanquam  atrox 
crimen  imputabatur.  Cf".  IVJosheimii  Andcrweitigcr  Vers,  eincr  Ket- 
zergeschichte,  p.  260.  sqq."     (Pasie«'.) 

It  is  scarcely  necessary  to  remind  the  reader  that  this 
victim  of  Calvin's  intolerance  and  cruelty  was  only 
thirteen  years  of  age,  and  yet  at  school  in  Spain,  when 
the  above-mentioned  passage  respecting  Palestine,  and 
which  was  laid  to  the  charge  of  the  unfortunate  Servetus 
as  a  heinous  crime,  was  first  published. 

Dirtct  rej'erincil !  |    Fabkicius,  Bihlictheca  Grtrca.  Vol.  v,  page  175. 
\    Raidfl,  Comment,  critico-litl.  dt  Ptolem.,  page  58. 
I    Humboldt,  Examm  Criiifue,  Vol.   iv,  page  119. 
Napioni,  Del  Prime  ikopriiore,  page  87. 
LcLEWtL.  Gtographie  du  i\toyeii-Aj^e,  Vol.  11,  page  108. 
HoFKMAN,  Lexicon  Biiiiogr  ,  Vol.  Ill,  page  319. 
Ebcrt,  Dictionary,  No.  1 8119. 

I  18.     CORTES  (FERN.1ND0)—UnJer    a    large    tvoodcut  repre- 
senting tbf  Emperor  Charles  V  seated  on  the  tbrone  : 

Carta  ^<r  xiX^m  ^btatia 
a  ftt.  ^.  majrflalt  l>f  I  epa- 1 

tior  nfo  frnor  por  rl  rapita  grnrral  tirla  nurua 
fpana:  llamatio  frtuatio  rotiitr«(.  iSula  qf  f)a?r 
tflacio  ^(as  tirvras  i»  proulrias  fin  rj«cto  q  1)a  Tjrf= 
futiierto  ||  nuruamftc  rnrl  nuratd  tirl  afio  tir.  xLr.  a 
cM  ptr:  ijta  fomrtitio  ala  roronailrral  tir  fu.  3-  i^- 
IBn  rfperial  liatr  rrlartd  tir  bna  graliiffima  proulria 
mui)  II  tica  llamutia  iiTulua :  i;  br  gratir^  ciuliatir«  \} 
lie  matauillofofit  e)ri-  i|  fiidos :  d  Tir  gratirs  ttatos  s 

'  Annal.  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  vi,  p.  98,  detcribes  a  copy  with  only  furty-ieven  mapi. 


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tiqtas.  lEntte  \m  qUs  a|)  bna  mas  marautllofa  || 
p  rica  (ttoDiifii  llamatia  Clmixttta :  q  rfta  por  mara:: 
Dillofa  arte  ctiifiiraTiafo  ||  trr  bna  graDr  laguna.  lida 
(jl  riuHaH  i»  prouiria  es  rnj  bn  gra^Jf^mo  frnor  || 
llamaDo  IHuterfuma:  lid^c  Ir  ararnrro  a(  rapita  $ 
alois  cfpanolrs  cfpato- 1|  fas  cofasc  tir  opr.  Curnta 
largametc  Drl  gtaDiffimo  fnlotio  Hcl  iDid)o  fHu-  li 
trr^uma  $  Tie  fus  rltos  g  cctimonias.  5  tc  como 
fr  firuc.  || 

Colophon : 

C  iLa  prcfcttte  carta  Trr  rflarion  fur  imprrffa 
nila  mun  noble  r  muij  leal  ciutjati  tie  *e-  li  uilla : 
por  :?Kirobo  eroberger  aleman.  a.  bii?.  Tiias  He 
Jlouifbre.    ^fto  be  IH.  b.  r.  xxij.* 


1522. 


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*^"*  Small  folio  for  size  (signatures  a,  b,  c,  in  eights,  d,  in  four)  ; 
twenty-eight  unnumbered  leaves ;  with  text  commencing  on 
the  verso  of  the  title-page. 


(A.) 


(Private  Library,  ProTidence.) 


The  reader  may  consult  concerning  Hernando  Cortes, 
his  life,  his  exploits,  and  the  immediate  results  of  the 
conquest  of  Mexico,  the  works  of  Peter  Martyr',  Ber- 


*  M»glici :  Epiitulary  relation  stiit  to 
Hia  Sjcrcd  Majesty  tlie  Emperor,  our  horJ, 
bv  the  Captaiti-General  of  New  Sp.iin, 
<.;llei  Fernando  Cortes,  wherein  is  an  ac- 
Ci'unt  of  the  lands  and  provinies  innuiner- 
alile,  newly  discovered  in  Yucatan,  from 
tlie  >ejr  xix  to  tlie  present ;  an  i  which  hi' 
lubjectcd  to  the  Royal  Crown  of  his  Sacred 
Majesty.  There  is  an  especial  mention 
of  a  very  extensive  and  rich  piovince, 
called  Culvj  ;  and  of  large  cities  and 
marvelous  edifices,  and  of  great  trade  and 
wealth,  among  which  there  is  one  richer 
ani  mjre  wonderful  than  all,  called  Tim- 
iititin,  which,  with   asluniihing   skill,  is 


built  on  a  Urge  lake,  of  which  city  and 
province  tlie  king  is  a  great  lord,  called 
.Mulffijuma,  where  happened  to  ihc  Cap- 
tain and  Spaniards  things  astounding  t<> 
hear.  With  a  full  a..cuunt  uf  the  gieal 
estate  of  the  said  Mafrr^ama,  ut  his  ritM 
in^  ceremonies,  and  h  iw  he  is  attended. 

'I'he  present  Epi~tol.iiy  Relation  wai 
piintel  in  the  very  n.>ble  and  loyal  city  of 
Seville,  bv  Jacob  Cromberger,  a  German, 
Noveniliei   tith,  I  yll. 

'  Ue  Orht  Nojt  Puri  ALinyrii  st 
/tnri'eiia;  Alcali,  fol.,  i  jjj.  Decades  II, 
IV  and  V  f  l>t  hiu.'ii  nuff  rtftriit  Uttr, 
in  the   Niiv.ii  OrHi  of    Buie,  I5J»,  pji. 


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IC2  2.  nardino  de  Sahagun*,  Andres  de  Tapia',  Lucius  Ma- 
••i"""^  Gonzales  Oviedo',  Juan  Gines  de  Sepulveda'', 
Bartholomew  de  Las  Casas'',  Lopez  de  Gomara",  Garcia 
del  Palacio',  Josef  de  Acosta'°,  Geronimo  Ramirez", 
Henrico  Martinez",  Antonio  de  Herrera",  Juan  de 
Torquemada'*,  Antonio  de  Remesal",  Blasco  de  Lanu- 


570-584;  Opm  tpiiiolarum  i  Amsterdam, 
iol.,  1670;  Letters  No.  650,  715,  717, 
766,  770,  7X0,  814. 

'  Hiiloria  de  la  contjuiila  dt  Mexico ; 
Ml-xicu,  4t(>,  1819.  I  B»uk  Ml  of  the 
Hi'ioria  General,  printed  sejiarately.) 

'  Relacion  htiha  lohre  la  con/uiiia  de 
Mexico.  (  An  eye-witness  and  participant. 
It  is  to  he  published  in  Vol.  11  ot'  Seizor 
Kazbalccta's  Coleaion) 

*  De  tat  cosai  memorahlet  de  EtfaHa  ; 
Alula,  /ol.,  I  5^0. 

'  Hiiloria  General  y  Natural  de  lai  In- 
dia$  ;  Madrid.  4  vols.,  fol.,  i8;i  55 
(which  is  the  only  edition  containing  Lib. 

."( X  \  1 1 1  )• 

*  Ue  rehui  Hitpanorum  geilis  ad  novum 
or><em  Mexitum/ue  (seven  books,  based, ac- 
conling  to  Muno7,  on  Oviedo's  Hiiloria), 
iipud  Vol.  Ill,  pp.  1-144,  ot"  Opera  cum 
ediia,  turn  inediia ;  Madrid,  4  vols.,  4to, 
178c. 

'  Hiiloria  General  dt  lat  Indiat,  and 
Apologeiica  Hiiloria  lumaria  c:ianlo  a  lai 
cjiidaJei,  diipoiicion,  deuripcion,  Cjfc,  de 
eilai  genlei  de  lai  Indiai  occidenialei  y 
merdi'.nalei,  still  in  matiiiscript,  but  very 
U'i:ible  transcripts  of'  wliith  are  preserved 
ill  private  libraries,  in  New  York,  Boston 
and  Washington.  (We  have  examined 
1  ne  of  these,  and  toiilViS  that  we  know 
of  no  work  calculated  t^i  throw  more 
light  on  the  early  liistorv  uf'  this  country 
thin  the  Hiiloria  of  the  good  Risliup  of 
Chiapas.  > 

"  Cronica  de  la  nueua  Eipalia  con  la  con. 
yuiila  de  Mexico  y  olrai  ioiat  hrchii  por 
llernandi  Coriei.  (id  Fart  of  the  Sira- 
C'-M  edit.,  fol.,  1554,  ^^^  lupra,  p,  56, 
nu'e  6.1      Also,  as  a  cllri^^ity  : 

Hiiloria  de  lai  con/uinat  de  Hrrnandi 
Curiei,  eicriia  en  eipaitol  pir  F.  I.opei  de 
a  mura,  Irad.  ul  mexicann  por  'f.  B.  de 
Sun  -Inton.  Mufion  Chimalpn'n  ^lau/ille- 
liuntix-iH  indico  mexicano  ;  puhtiiala  con 
Tiiritii  notai  y  adicionei  por  C.  M.  de  fl«;- 
lamenle  i  Mexico,  1  vult.  4tu,  1816  .  Sup- 


plement of  37  pp.,  dated  |8J7.  (The 
Mexican  MS.  has  never  been  seen,  noi 
even  by  Bustamente  himself!) 

•  Dijlogot  mililareif  Mexico,  4to,  I  55V 
'*  De  Nalura  Nova  Orhii  lihri  duo  ^t  de 
Promvlgaiione  Kvangelii  apud  Barharai  ,■ 
Salamanca,  8vo,  1581;;  /./ ,  Cologne, 
1596;  (first  draft  of)  Hiiloria  Nalviai  v 
Moral  dt  lai  Indian  SeviUi-,  4to,  1590; 
id.,  8vo,  1591;  Baic^^'lon.i,  jvo,  1591 
(apud  Eniavo  de  una  Bi/i.iol.  Espaflolj, 
Malrid,  8vo,  186]);  Madrit,  410,  1608; 
id.,  1610;  id.,  1791.  (.Accor.ling  to 
Lkon  PiNr.to,  p.  1  ji,  this  valuibic  work 
Is  taken  from  the  MS.  Hinoria  de  lot  In. 
dioi  de  Nueva  Eipana,  of  the  Dominican 
monk  Diego  Duran.) 

"  Apologia  en  dtlenta  del  ingenio  y  Jor- 
lalei  de  loi  Indioi  de  la  Nueva  EipaHa  con- 
rfuiiiada  por  D.  Fernando  Cortez.  (Added 
to  the  id  edit,  of  Lasji  de  la  Vega' 
Corlei  valeroio,  I  594  ) 

"  Reporlorio  de  lot  Tiempoi  y  Hiiloria 
Natural  de  Nueva  K'paHa  f  Mexico,  41' ■, 
1606.  ("libromuy  curioio  i  de  gran.lej 
noticias  por  tenerlas  >u  Autor,  que  oy  vivi- 
en  Mexico,  i  tiene  otros  escritos,  ijur 
nunca  llegarnn  a  Esp.ii^a,  pues  el  impresio 
n  1  se  halla."  Leon  I'inklo,  p.  101;  An- 
tonio, Vol.  I,  p.  564.) 

"  Hiiloria  General  df  l.i  llechoi  de  la 
Caitellanos ;  Madrid,  fol.,  1601  15  (best 
edit,  for  accuracy);  id,  1718  30  (with 
an  invaluable  index).  Decade  11,  Lib.  7; 
Dec.  Ill,  Lib.  IV. 

"  .\.\l  lihroi  ritualei  )'  motiarchia  Indi- 
ana, con  el  ori^en  v  gurrrai  de  lot  Indi',s 
occideriialei  f  Midrid,  j  vol,,,  fi|.,  ifilj; 
.Madrid,  3  vols.,  tol.,  1 71};  .Madrid,  fid., 
1730 '     (See  Meuski..) 

"  Hiil'.ria  de  la  provinci.i  de  S.  I^iceiii 
de  C/iyafa  y  Guaiemali  ;  Madrid,  fo' 
1619,  or  Hinotij  Gceral  de  lai  Indiai 
Oi  'dentalei,  y  particular  dt  la  •^nvernactoi 
dt  Chiapa  y  Guatetfijla  ;  Madrid,  td., 
l6»o.  (Anexcellrnt  work,  invaluable  be- 
tides t'or  a  history  of  Bart,  d'    Lai  Caias.) 


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za"",  F.  Caro  de  Torres'',  J.  de  Solorzano  Percira'", 
Bernal  Diaz  del  Castillo"',  B.  L.  Argensola'",  Priidencio 
de  Sandoval",  F.  Pizarro  y  Orellana",  J.  Dias  de  la 
Calle",  Antonio  de  Solis^,  Lopez  de  Cogolludo", 
Agostin  de  Vetancurt"'',  J  de  Villagutiere  de  Soto- 
Mayor'^,  Malo  de  Luque***  (Duke  de  Amodovar),  Carl 
Cur'ths"',  Pietro  Manzi'°,  Telesforo  de  Trueba"  ( ? ), 
Andres  Cavo'*,  F.  E.  Santdner",  Alexander  Soltwcdel'*, 


1522, 


"  liitloriji  Eic/eiijttieai  v  Secu'tun  Jr 
Ara'cxi  Sarjgossa,  t'ul.,  l6ii. 

"  Hiitoriti  de  las  Orjenes  Militant  ; 
MidriJ,  I'ol.,  1619. 

"  ,lt  InJiarum  Ivrt  ;  Madrid,  fiil., 
1619-39  ;  Lyuns,  t'ul.,  1672  ;  Madrid, 
fol,,  1777- 

— Politica  Indiana  i  Madrid,  ful.,  1 648; 
../,  1776. 

'*  Hiiloria  vcrdadera  de  la  conjviua 
de  la  nueua  EifaHa  ;  Madrid,  fol  ,  1632  \ 
id.,  witli  addiliiin  i>t' chapter  ccxii;  i6mu, 
1795-1796;  Mexico,  4  vols.,  4tii.  1854. 

■"  /iiia/ei  de  /ira^on  ;  Saragossa,  Jbl., 
1630. 

"  Hiiioria  de  la  f^ida  y  Hechoi  del  Em- 
fierjdor  Ciirlis  A';  ValladoliJ,  t'.il.,  1 604.; 
Pampl'iru.  2  vols.,  fol.,  1618  j  1./.,  1634J 
Antwerp,  till.,  1681.  ^The  deeds  nf'Cortes 
an  1  the  development  of  the  Spanish  rule, 
tyranny  and  abominatiuni,  in  New  Spain, 
.ire  so  interwoven,  so  to  speak,  with  the 
policy  and  rule  i)t"  Charles  V,  that  valuable 
details,  both  ut'  an  historical  and  political 
character,  may  be  found  in  the  works  of 
SrAPHVLUS,    UlLOA,  Z.ENOCARUS    or   Svoi- 

KEARr,  UlLurHKR,  Sali>£  and   Vera  V.  ut 

LA   RoiA.) 

"  f^aronei  iluslrei  del  Nuevo  lHunda  j 
Madiid,  till.,  1639,  (The  ieiond  part  of' 
Ji'AN  HE  Castelianos'  Elfgias  de  fjronei 
iliuiirei  de  lat  I'ldiai,  j.  ''ilislied  at  Madrid 
onlv  in  i8;o,  in  Aribau's  SiiMoteca,  may 
contain  an  eulogy  on  Cortes.  If  our 
ineiii  <ry  serves  us  right,  there  is  none  in 
the  tirsc  part,  published  in  1 589.) 

"  M.-murial  y  Noliiiai  satras  y  realei 
del  Imfierio  de  lat  Indiiii  Oaidenlalei  ,• 
Madiiil,  4to.  1646  (and  not  1546,  accord- 
ing to  .Vteusel  and  others).  I'his  seems  to 
lie  only  the  second  edition,  fiir  he  stJtej 
in  Ills  dedication:  "  Kn  el  aiVi  de  164; 
lotnic,  imptimi  y  presente  a  V.  M.  un 
breve  memorial  dettr  asunte  .   ."     Uut  we 


Ii  ive  not  yet  succeeded  in  finding  a  men- 
tion anywheie  eUc  of' this  iiicmonal. 

'*  Hiiioriii  de  /j  Cun'j'viila  de  Mixiio  f 
Madrid,  fol.,  1684;  Barcelona,  fol.,  1691  ; 
Madrid,  fol.,  1704;  Cordova,  1743  \v,\t\\ 
a  second  part  by  Salazar  y  (Jlarte,  whicli  is 
perfectly  wortliless)  i  Madiid,  4to,  1763; 
id.,  1768;  Barcelona,  8vo,  1771  ;  Madrid, 
4to,  1783-4  (a  sumptuous  edition);  id., 
4ti>,  1790;   «/.,  8vo,  1791. 

"  Hnlt/ria  de  la  provin^ia  de  Vucalhan  ; 
Madrid,  tol.,  1688;  Campeche,  S\o  (first 
vol.)    1842;  Merida  (second  vol.),  1845. 

■'  Teairo  Alexiiano  ;  Mexico,  fol., 
1698. 

"  Confuiita  de  la  fro-vincia  del  Ttzj  ; 
Madrid,  fol.,  1702.  (Tlic  second  part 
never  was  published.) 

"  Hiitoria  pilitua  de  lot  Eilahlicimien- 
lot  uilram,  de  Ln  naJonei  Eurofieaif  Mad- 
rid, 5  vols.,  4to,  I7,S4.  (Kicli  says  tliat 
it  is  onlv  an  altered  translation  of  Ray- 
nal.) 

"  Ferd.  Cjrtei,  d:r  Eroherer  Alexiio'i ; 
Berlin,  8vo,  1818. 

'"  Itlorij  delii  on/uiita  di  Metiita  ; 
Rome,  1611)0,  1820. 

"  L:Je  of  Uernan  Coriea;  Edinburgh, 
i2mo,  1829;  London,  8vo,  1830,-  m 
tierman^iiy  S,>orM.hil,  Leipzig,  8vo,  1S37. 
(We  know  nothing  concerning  this  woik, 
and  mention  it  simply  because  it  liad  the 
h.mor  of  several  rcimpressions.) 

'*  Lot  tret  S.glui  de  Mejih ;  Mexico,  4 
vols.,  8vo,  i83t)-8.  (Contains  a  supple- 
ment by  Btsr.AMENTiL,  Vol.  iv  is  rarely 
met  with.) 

"  ferd.  Coriez  und  die  Enierung  Vnn 
Mexii,;  I'rjgue,  8vo,  1S42.  (Probably 
the  same  as  E.  Uelhinoi,  Ferdinand  Cortex 
oder  die  E'aherung  von  MeXHu ;  I'rag., 
8vo,  1843.) 

"  Atexiht  er'Jring  af  Ferd.  Kt-  '»  ,• 
Linlcotp,  8vo,  1X44. 


ni>^F 


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D. 


Ring''',  Lucas  Alaman", 
M.  Orozco  y  Berra'*,  J.  L.  Rayon'',  R.  A.  Wilson*°, 
Dr.  Robertson*',  and  especially  the  history  composed  hy 
the  eloquent  and  imaginative  William  H.  Prescott^'. 
Valuable  information  may  also  be  gathered  from  the 
well-known  collections  of  Ramusio*',  Hakluyt*^,  Pur- 
chas*',  J.  Sanchez  de  Aguirre*",  J.  F.  de  Espinosa*', 
Lord    Kingsborough**,   Tcrnaux-Campans*'',  several  re- 


"  Geuki(hlt  der  EntJtekdtig  khJ  Ero- 
birung  1-ir.  Atexih  i   Berlin,  8vo,  1847. 

"  Kurxgejaiitf  Geukitkit  der  Jrtiy 
eriieii  EilJtiktr  von  jfmerUa  j  Frankfurt, 
8v(>,  17X1.  "  Libcllui,  in  Uium  illitrrato- 
rum  ex  Riibertsunu  putistimum  excerptui." 
— McustL. 

"  Dnertacioin  Hiiiiriui  lohrt  la  Hii- 
liria  lie  la  Rrfuhtica  Atexiianjf  Meiicu, 
3  voU.,4tti.  1844  49. 

•"  Noiitia  Hiitiriia  Je  la  Conjuration  del 
Mar^uei  del  I'alle i  Mexico,  410,  185]. 
(Allrgcil  cunspirjcy  tii  caute  Mexio)  t>i 
"  icceJe,"  and  |)Uce  at  the  head  u>  the 
gi'vernmcnt  Martin  Cottei,  lun  uf  the 
unjuiilitdcr,  l56;-68.) 

—  Ilinerarh  del  ejtrciio  i$fa»ol  en  la 
coHjuiiia  de  Mej'ti.  1  Thii  valuable  mn- 
nugraph  is  in  the  l}iccienario,but  we  think 
that  a  few  copies  were  publiihed  sepa- 
rately.) 

"  Sumario  de  la  Reiidtncia  lomada  a  D. 
h'ernjn.U  Cortei  f  Medio,  1  voU.,  4tu, 
1851    3. 

— Proctio  de  Reiidencia  contra  Pedro  de 
AlTiirado,  V  NuHc  de  Gtiaman  f  Mexico, 
8vii,  1847  (with  notes  by  D.J.  F.Ramirez). 

••  W  nev)  hiilory  of  ike  Confueil  of 
.ytexi.oi  Philadelphia,  8vo,  l8;y. 

*'   Hiinry  of  /imerica.  Book  v. 

*'  Hill  rf  of  ike  C^nijueu  of  Mexico,  viilk 
a  fieliminary  view  of  the  aniieni  Mexican 
cii'iliaalion,  and  ike  life  of  ike  contjueror 
Hernando  Coriei ;  New  Vork,  3  vols.,  8vo, 
1843  tlir>t  edition) 

The  t'.iUuwing  translations  contain  valu- 
ahlr  notes,  corrections  and  additions: 

Hiilcria  de  Ij  Cf'tfuiuu  de  Xlexico,  trad, 
p.  D  ti.  M.  Oonxa-'ei  de  la  t'e^a,  y  ano- 
•\tda  f.  O.  L.  Alaman  i  Mexico,  a  vols., 
4to,   1844  46. 

— Hiitoria  de  la  conjnuu  de  Mexico 
ton  una  a;eada  frilimin..  Sec,  trad,  f.   D. 


Joaj.  Navarro,  (with  notes  by  J.  I', 
Ramirez  and  J.  R.  Gondra)}  Mexico,  3 
vols.,  Svo,  1844. 

**  TVrao  Volume  delle  navigationi  ei 
viaggi  i  Venice,  f'ol.,  1556  (for  two  letters 
from  Pedro  de  Alvarado  to  Cortes  (id.,  in 
Bakcia,  Hiimriad.  frimit.,  Viil.  1),  the  ac- 
count addressed  by  Diego  de  Godoy  to  the 
latter,  but  more  especially  for  the  all-ini- 
p.irtant  "  Reljiit,ne  d'un  genlilhuomo  del 
Sig.  Fernando  Coriete,"  the  Spanish  original 
of  which  is  unfortu.iatcly  lost. 

"  Tie  principal  Nauigitlioni,  k'oyagn, 
tec;  London,  3  vols.,  fol.,  i;99-i6oo. 
(In  Vol.  Ill,  the  journeys  or  voyages  of 
Marco  de  Nl^a,  Coronado,  Rui/,  Espejo, 
Tomson,  Bodriiham,  Hawks  and  Phil- 
lips. 

*•  Haklvytui  Poilkumui,  or  Pvrtkai  kit 
Pilgrimei;  Londi>n,  5  vols.,  fol.,  1625- 
1616;  in  Vol.  Ill,  Book  V,  extracts  from 
Herrera,  Oviedo,  Acosta,  Gom.ira,  and  the 
Mendoza  codex  ;  in  Vol.  iv.  Books  vi  and 
VII,  sundry  interesting  pieces. 

"  Colltilio  maxima  conciliorum  omnium 
Hiipanite  el  Novi  Orhii ;  Rome,  4  vols., 
fol,,  1693, 

*'  Ckronica  Afiitolica  y  Serapkica  dt 
todot  lot  colegiot  de  Propaganda  Fide  dt 
eua  Nuiva-EipaKa  i  Mexico,  1  vols.,  410, 
I746-I791, 

*"  /tnli'juitiei  of  Mexico;  London,  9 
vols.,  fol.,  1830-1S4S  (the  drawinf.s  by  A. 
Aglio),  See  Vols.  V,  vii,  Vlll,  lor  writ- 
ten accounts. 

*•  f'yagei,  Relalioni  el  Mcnoirei  j  Paris, 
10  vols.,  8vo,  in  two  scries,  1837-1840. 
Stp,  especially,  Vols.  Vlll  and  X  (1838), 
Mil  and  .\vi  I  1S40). 

The  Hiiloire  de  Tlaxcala,  by  Camak- 
00,  and  the  Hiiloire  dfi  Prwincri  Septet- 
trionjlii  du  Mexijue,  by  La  Mota  Papil- 
la, were  promised,  but  nut  published. 


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pertones  published  in  Spain  and  Mexico'",  buf,  above 
all,  from  the  invaluable  Coleccion  of  Seflor  D.  Joaquin 
Garcia  Icazbalceta". 

As  to  understand  fully  the  circumstances  that  led  to 
the  rapid  conquests  achieved  by  Cortes,  which  were 
due  in  a  greater  degree  to  the  character  of  the  natives 


1522, 


••  Dicchnario  Univirtal  dt  Hiitoria  y 
Jf  Gtigrafiiit  Mcxicii,  lovols.,  fiit.,  18^3- 
;6.  (This  is  a  rrprint  <>('  the  BarcrlDiu 
cdilinn,  but  with  vjluahlc  .idlitions  by 
Mr*«rs.  Ici/balcctJ,  Ramirc?.  ami  othrrs.) 

— Uiiumenloi parj  1,1  Hiil'.ri,i,U  Alfiico, 
four  serin,  publishnl  in  tlir  Dijrh  offiiijl, 
brtween  the  >e4rs  18^3  57,  in  17  vols., 
Svo,  f"i)l..  ind  4tii,  Me«ici).  iSir  RiKENor, 
afuJ  Ptterman'i  Mitlhtilungtn,  (or  Aug  , 
lX,6) 

— Colticion  lie  Doeumenroi  intJif^i  for  la 
Hiitoria  tit  EifaHa  i  Madrid,  1841-186;, 
in  |urti,  turming,  up  to  this  date,  about 
40  vols.  Svo. 

—  Ciltcchn  Jt  Documttilni  iHtdiloi  rtla- 
livit  al  Jeuubrimienla,  &c. ;  Madrid,  1 864, 
in  monthly  parts.  (It  is  rr.illv  painful  to 
see  the  little  method,  discrlminition,  and 
knowledge  displayed  by  the  editors  of  this 
new  publication.  I 

*'  Coltidin  Ji  Dotumenldi  f-ara  fa  hii- 
lariii  Jt  Mexio  ;  .Mexim,  41.',  |8;8  In 
these  tinier  whiMi  reputati'n,  in  view  merely 
of  piTsoriil  jilvanci'iiienij  or  the  lust  r.t 
pecuniary  profit,  .ire  ihe  n-.otives  of  50  many 
.iilrmpis  in  the  »|here,  not  only  .  f  letters 
but  of  siienre,  dibintere-tPil  etioii,  ate  so 
coninicndahle,  th.it  we  taniiot  allow  the 
present  oppiirtuniiy  to  pass  without  noticing 
the  literary  and  historical  labors  of  Sr.  I)n. 
Joaquin  Garcia  Icazbalceta.  A  scholar 
of  methodical  habits  and  clearness  of  per- 
reptiin,  a  critic  of  great  aiuiiirn,  and  a 
di-inteiested,  modest,  p.-rievering  votary  of 
science.  Seizor  Icatbal'  eta  ilesi-rves  well  of 
the  sluient  of  .American  history.  We  wish 
ir  were  in  our  power  to  think  as  highly 
of  the  labors  of  I  ei  tain  scholars,  so  ulled, 
who,  by  continually  thiuslint;  themselves 
bci'ore  the  public,  have  succeeded  in  secur- 
ing a  position,  a  name,  and  an  abundance 
of  worldly  goods ' 

The  lint  volume  of  thli  CoUccion  cnn- 
laini,  besides  the  History  of  the  Indians 


by  Motnlinia,  leveral  letters  of  Cortes, 
never  before  published;  the  important  Pm- 
hanzit  fecka  en  la  Nueva  KipjUi,  it  pe,ii 
mento  dr  'J.  Ochaa  Jr  f.tjarde  en  n  mhre 
dt  Hernando  Cortti }  ike  OrJenan^at  mili- 
laret  y  tivilei,  issued  by  Cortes,  an  anony- 
mous life  of  this  conqueror,  in  l>atin  ;  his 
instructions  for  the  C<dinia  expedition  ;  and 
upwards  of  fifty  important  documents,  all 
relating  to  the  subject  before  us,  and 
published  for  the  first  time. 

The  second  volume,  which  is  to  be 
published  within  a  few  weeks,  svill  con- 
lain,  among  others,  the  following  import- 
ant documents : 

— Memorial  de  Lull  Cardenas  contra 
Cortes. 

— Merced  a  Hernando  Curtei  de  tier- 
rai  a  Mexico. 

—  Real  provision  sobre  descubrimien- 
tos  en  el  Mar  del  Siir,  y  repuesta  do 
Cortes  a  la  notificacion  que  se  hizo  de  ella. 

—  Kelacion  de  los  servicios  del  .Marques 
del  Valle,  que  de  su  orden  piesrnto  a  S. 
M.  el  lie.  Nui^ez. 

— Peticion  que  dio  F.  Cortes  coniia  A. 
de  Mendoij,  virey,  pidiendu  reiidencia 
contra  el, 

-Kr.igmentos  de  la  vista  hecha  a  A. 
de  Mendoza,  Interrogatorio,  &c.  (]3) 
questions). 

— Leyes  y  ordenanzas  nueuamente  lic- 
clias  por  S,  M.  por  la  gobernacion  de  lai 
InJias.  (The  "famous"  laws  which  were 
promulgated  by  a  kind  of  hue-and-cry  in 
the  city  of  Mexico,  May  14th,  I544. ) 

— Several  memorials  by  l,as  Cas.is. 
-Kelacion  de  la  Jornada  que  hi/o  F. 
de  Sandoval  Acazltle,  cacique,  con  A,  de 
Mendoza,  cuai>'tL>  t'ue  a  la  conquista  de  lot 
indios  Chic  himi-cas,  and,  above  all,  the 
wholly  unknown, though  highly  important, 

Kelacion  hecha  sobre  la  conquista  de 
Mexico  (by  Andris  ui  TAriA,  an  ey«- 
witneii  and  participant). 


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1522.  and  the  dissensions  which  existed  among  the  Mexican 
princes,  than  to  his  unquestionable  skill,  bravery  and 
perseverance,  it  is  necessary  to  study  the  history  of 
Mexico  before  the  conquest,  we  refer  to  the  works  of 
Sahagun",  Alvarado  Tezozomoc",  Torribio  de  Bene- 
vente  or  Motolinia'*,  Fernando  d'Alva  Ixtlilxochirl", 
A.  de  Zurita''',  Gregorio  Garcia'\  J.  I'.usebius  Nierem- 
berg'",  L  Boturini  Bcnaduci"',  J.J.  Granudos  y  Galve/'", 
K   X   C.  de  Siguenza  y  Gongara'",   F.  X.  Clavigero'", 


"  Htirtria  fiiutra!  dt  lai  Cotai  dt  Nueva 
Rtfa»Ji  .Mriici),  ]  \(>l).,  4to,  1819  (rditril 
tni  CAtlratrJ  by  Bustamrntr  in  >u^h  :i 
nijnnct  it  t  >  rfijuirc  t..r  a  pcrl'ctt  undrr- 
lundin^  i>f  thjl  Jiy  but  im|Hirt4nt  work, 
the  reading  oi  the  pirt«  iImi  puliliihrj  in 
Vi/l».  »  and  »i  of  Kingiborough's  jinii- 
fkitin). 

•*  Crtmiet  Attrtcanj,  lis  chafters  in 
KiMciao»uur,H,  Vol.  IX.  pp.  t-196,  jml 
Hiilttrt  Ja  .Mtrijme,  irjj,  lur  un  XtH. 
imJil  far  H.  Ttrnaux-Cjmfani ;  Paris,  X 
vuU.,  (vo.  iSj}. 

**  HitDria  dt  lit  Indi  1  de  la  Nueva 
Etfa^a,  in  Vut.  1  oi  IcA/iALctTA't  Culec 
.■im  it  Di.umemlJi. 

**  The  "  .Meiicjn  Cicrro,"  ai  Busta- 
mcnte  calls  him,  wrote  a  lertain  number 
»t  w>>rk:,  all  germane  to  the  subject  before 
lit,  but  we  think  that  the  following  only 
were  pcintej  : 

H-rrihhi  Cmeldadti  dt  loi  ftnjuiiiad^iei 
de  Atexite  {  Metico,  4to,  1829.  Trans- 
lated into  French  by  TtisAix,  an'l  in- 
•ertrj  in  hit  Retittil;  Paris,  Xvo,  |8;S. 

— Hiilcria  Ciniimeta,  apud  KlNris- 
■OKOi'GH't  Amiijuiliet,  Vol.  I\,  pp.  I97 
316,  an  I  in  Tcinavx,  second  scriei,  1 
vols.,  8vo,  1840.  (Extracts  have  been 
transljtcJ  and  published  in  'he  appendix 
to   P»»»cott'«  Hiir.ry   if  JHexko.) 

*•  Rafftrt  mr  lei  dijTreeittei  clanei  de 
<Ktfi  dt  la  S'sMvtl.'t  Bifa^ne,  in  TtaNAUx, 
Ke.meil,  8ro,  1840. 

•'  Ort^tn  de  Ici  Inditi  del  Nueva  Mjn- 
d»  y  Imdiai  (kiidemtalei ;  Valencia,  izino, 
|Cs07;  NCa.lrid,  tbi.,  1719.  (Book  v  con- 
tain! the  opinions  which  the  Indians  them- 
trlvri  hclJ  Concerning  'heir  origin.  1 

**  Hi'ltria   ntlar^,  mjxime 
likrii  STI  diuimtut  {  Antwerp, 


e  feregriH^, 
,  ful.,    1635. 


(Thii  work  teemi  to  iKcupy  a  middle 
ground  between  the  work  of  Aco«ta  .ind 
the  well-known  Niilura/e'za  y  yiriudei  dt 
I'll  .'Irholei,  fa:.,  de  la  Nueva  EipJh.i 
III'  KKANcitro  Hkknandiz  (Mexico,  4to, 
161;),  js  it  contains  a  great  deal  ■( 
Njtiir.il  History,  probibly  taken  from  the 
laiti-r,  jnd  historical  fact],  which  we  hasc 
leenijuoted  by  several  Mexican  historians.! 

*"  Idea  de  una  Nueva  Uiiloria  General 
de  la  /1meri,a  Sefientrional ;  Madrid,  4to, 
1746. 

"  Tar  del  Ameriianaii  giiirriio  gemil  f 
cal'lico.  hreve  y  pariitular  notitia  de  loJa 
la  hiitiria  Indiana;  Mexico,  4to,  |-'78. 
I  Im.i);inary  dialogue  between  a  learned 
Indian  and  a  Spaniard  concerning  the 
early  history  of  Mrxico.) 

*'  I'ieJad  heroyca  de  Hernando  Coriea. 

— Del  origen  de  loi  Inditi  Mexieanei 
ifue  se  llamaron  Tolltiai. 

—  Cyilfgrafiiia  Mexicana.  0  modo  jue 
tot  Mexiianot  lenian  en  coniar  loi  atiii, 
meiei,  y  dial,  de  fue  le  Jeduti  con  tvidincia 
la  aniij^uedad  de  la  nacion, 

—  Mitholoj^ia  Mexitana. 

We  borrow  the>e  last  three  titlet  fp  m 
AsToNio,  BihI.  Hilt  Nova,  Vol.  1,  |>. 
i;i,  liut  are  unable  to  state  whether  the 
woiks  were  ever  printed.  Those  who 
have  access  to  the  raristime  Bihlioleta  Hii- 
pann-.imeritano  Septentrional  of  Bmis- 
TAIN  m.iy  ascertain  the  fact 

*'  Moria  aniica  del  Afeiiico  (  Cesen.i,  4 
Vols.,  4to,  1780-1;  Hiitory  0/  Mexii.  ; 
London,  4to,  1787;  Philadelphia,  8vo, 
1S04;  Liin.lon,  4to,  1807;  Hiiioria  an- 
ti^ua  de  Mefiiio  ;  London.  8vo,  1816. 
(The  I  It  ■  t  ir.iii'l.ition  into  Spanish  ii  by 
F.  P.  Vasi]uc<,  BUbup  uf  PuebU,  Mexico, 
4tw,  185J.) 


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Mariano  Veytia'",  C.  M.  Bustamente"*,  and  even  the  1 522. 
ainbitic.'is  attempt  of  the  indefatigable  Abbe  Brasseur  .^— — 
de  Bourbourg''. 

The  Catholic  Church  and  its  various  monastic  orders 
have  so  shaped  what  some  authors  term  the  modern 
civilization  of  Mexico — the  Dominicans,  Franciscans, 
and  Jesuits  played  such  an  impi>rtant  part  in  the  early 
history  of  the  conquest — that  their  chronicles  yet  form 
a  trustworthy,  though  chaotic  repertory  of  facts  and 
documents.  'I'he  reader,  therefore,  siiouM  not  neglect 
to  consult  the  monkish  historic-'  of  Alonso  Kcrnande/.'*\ 
Cicronimo  de  Mendieta'',  J.  de  (jrijalva''*,  Gon/ales  dc 
1.1  l^uente'",  G.  G.  D.ivila"  .  G.  Garcia'',  A.  Davila 
Padilla'S  Alonso  de  la    Rea',  B;'!ra/ar  ^\c  Mcilina'',  K. 


**  Uiinri.t  .imnuj  Jt  Mniio ;  Mcxlcn, 
;  »oli..  +!•■,  lSj6.  (The  bi'st  w  irlc  .is 
vrt  written  i.  incerniin;  t\\r.  rjrly  history  ut' 
Mnl,-...  Publiihrl  with  .illitiun*  by  l>. 
\f  (jrtrgj,  but  widiout  tlir  iiilroJuitiDn, 
«iii.li  uii  jttrrMrjrdi  inicrti'd  in  KiNiis- 
ii. 'uixH*  /iatr/jiiin,  Vol.  vni,  pp.  15'J- 

JI7- 

••  (ialtri,!  lit  jtilij^itoi  trineipti  Attji- 
.josi;   Pu.-blj,  4.t  I,  l!i!i, 

—C'tnUa  MexKjnj,  Ttomoxlli  a  Liirj 
fAt  Lctlitnt  I3ih  1}  inlfrisanti  <i  t/ior,  Coj- 
limhrti,  &i.,  Ac  lot  Injioi  jnlifujt  TullfCii 
V   Uf "'>"<-' >  .VIexicu,  4ti>,  iSii. 

—  TtUHi)  tn  hi  ultima  iitmpa  ,lf  mt 
jnnju-.i  rtfts}  .Vlexicu,  4111,  iXifi. 

(L11  h'rjTti  de  C^riei  ;  .Mf  nidi,  410, 
iSii,  i>  ti.ni'ly  i  virulent  pjiqjililet,  in 
wjiich  Uu'tjmcnte  enJ';avt>rir.l  t.i  slio.v 
tint  OO.in.ghus  (the  U,:  Vi.c-I<>iy  of' 
\letic.')  iurpa>iej  even  Cortes  in  truclty. 

•*  Hiilii^f  Ml  ijti,iii  civiliiies  Jj  Me- 
tijMi  el  de  r Amirijut-C-nirale ;  Paris,  4 
villi.,  <vo,  1859.  ^Ve4^s  will  cKip^e 
bet'ore  the  hiit^rian  U  pl4>.eil  in  p'^iciiion 
<>;'  >>iliii:ient  data  to  write  jnythinj;  but  an 
rniginjry  hittury  of  the  civilize. 1  nations 
III  .Vie>ico  "durant  les  lieclci  antcricurs  a 
Christophe  ColoiiiL" ') 

*'  Hiiiiria  ecleiUiirea  de  nueilros  liempoi  ,■ 
Toledo,  fol..  1611. 

"  Uiit.iia  tiitii'iiiiiJ  Indiana.  (Thia 
viluiUe  work,  whiih  wa>  known  only 
troin  the  nati>.e  in  LtuN   Pinklu,  p.  114, 


and  supposed  to  lie  lost,  hai  brrn  i  ifrU 
iiscovercd  in  Spain,  and  will  br  pu'>- 
li.licd  in  Vol.  til  of  Seftor  IcAtsALctTA'i 
CJttii.ii.  I 

'"  fro  «.•,.»  de  U  Or  den  de  ,V.  P.  S. 
jliguiiin  en  .\ii  Pr<,finiu)  de  /.i  .V.ft/j 
EifiJiia;  Mexico,  4ro,  1624.  ( Ei  H» 
tori.i  bien  escrita,  i  ^ue  nu  sale  .ir  I  ifur 
en  el  Tiiu!o  promete  " — PiNtLo-B  vKri«, 
col.  761.) 

*'  Hiilirij  df  S,  Wi;  j/.n  df  !.t  :>rivin.ri 
de  MeihuMan  i  M..  1  614  ('rK»M*i;x,  V-.. 
466). 

'"  Tejrro  Ei'lniaitii!/  de  l,i  fimriivj 
lilleit.i  df  Ui  InJiai  r.ccid.-rrMe,  ;  Mi.l.i.l, 
1  v.ils..  t"ol.,  i()4;  -^6. 

"  Predti-,h:)n  ,>,■/  Ev.inj^fln  tre!  .Virv: 
.Mund,.  1615  (.;/.,./  .Antonio,  fl-A.'.  H. 
Nov.  1.  544). 

"  Unt^ria  de  la  fundacion  .  d:Ka'ii> 
df  /.I  provin.ia  de  S,intiafi  de  Met  «< 
Madrid,  t'ol.,  i;y6i  Briix'-I!e<.  fi.l.,  iftj<; 
Antonio  an.l  MeiiscI  add  "  fMUd-liJ 
^hac  epiiiraplic  non  sjtis  ipia  :  f<i'.-j 
hiitoii.t  df  /,/  N:ifx\i  EipJtia),  lfi',l, 
M." 

"  ao'i'.J  df  Aj  Ordfn  df  N.  S.  P.  S. 
Eijniiu,}  .Mexico,  410,  1643.  (There  i» 
in  Al'jnio  de  Roj  mentionrd  by  Pinclo- 
Barcia,c<i|.  '';4,  .:s  thi- author  of  CiroarVd 
dt  la  Prmintta  df  San  Pfdri.  i  S-it  PaUt 
de  .Mtch^atan  ;  Mexico,  410,  l6}5.) 

'*  C'jniia  de  Ij  Pruv.nL:.!  de  S.  Die^t 
de  .Mf'iii;  Mexico,  fol,,  i68i. 


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1522.    J    Alegre^',  Juan  Lopc/.'\  A.  Perez  de  Ribas^,  and  the 
■■Jii^.    -   collections  of  Ahp.  Lorcii/an;r\  all  of  which  find  their 
fit  complement  and  commentary  in   Matias  de  Bocane- 
gra's  Historia  del  Auto  de  he  en  Mexico''^ 

In  studies  of  this  description,  the  pandects""  (if  the 


■"1 


'•  Hiittria  Jt  la  Prn^incia  Ji  la  Ctm- 
fsHia  dt  yum  dt  la  Nunui  F.ipafta,  pub- 
lithrd  b\  Buitamknte;  Mcnicu',  3  VdU., 
4to,  1)141-1. 

'*  HiiHria  Genfralf  Vjlljiliilid,  1615. 
We  know  the  work  only  from  the  litJtion 
in  DiA(  ni  la  Calli,  which  Ir.nls  to  the 
bcliet  thjt  this  Hhioria  Tvfeii  to  the  sub- 
jett  bet'orr  u-,  but  we  jre  j|i|irchrn»ive 
thit  the  I.opri  mrntioiied  bv  I)c  U  Calif 
it  the  Johannes  Lopei  of  Uuhilii  .iml 
Antomo,  while  the  work  is  only  the 
well-known  Hnii'iJ  GentrM  dr  S,into  Do- 
min^d  »  dt  lu  urdtn  dr  I'rrdujdorn, 

It  must  be  said,  however,  that  in 
Pin(Lo-Ra«cia  (col.  -^1)  there  is  a  ref- 
erence to  juAN  MrLiNDiz  (Tei.roi  t-erd. 
df  Iji  fndiai ;  Rome,  Col.,  ifiXl,  Vol.  1, 
fi)l.  9-),  from  which  wr  inlcr  tli.it  thrte 
ire  idJitions  to  the  .ibove  Hiit.  gen.  dt  S. 
D.  which  ret'er  to  the  In.lii-j. 

"  H:slori,i  dt  III  Triumfoi  dt  nutitra 
Samia  Fr  entrt  genlei  l,ii  mat  harhiimi  y 
fitrai  del  tiueuo  Orht ;  Madrid,  fol.,  1645. 

'*  C'jiiiili'i  froviiicialti,  frimeroy  legutt- 
do  i   .Mexico,  4to,  1769. 

—  C'liinlium  frivinnalr  III  .MtXhan  f 
Mexico,  4ti.,  f-o.  (The  acts  olthe/rVi/ 
council)  were  priiitcd  as  early  ii  lf!?''>  by 
Juan  Hablo.  and  therrlore  belore  1621, 
which  ii  the  date  given  bv  BRUNfr,  ill, 
46t) 

'•  Hiitoria  del  .r/ulu  de  Fr  en  Mr.\ei,'>f 
Mexico,  4t»,  1649;  /./.,  i(}^i. 

We  are  ot"  the  impression  that  the  lol- 
lowing  wiitks  might  serve  a<  a  Uielul  index 
to  cumprrhend  the  inner  workings  ol  thi^e 
religious  organizations  which  have  been 
the  immediate  cause  ol'  so  mui  h  liann  in 
.Mexico : 

— ConililiKtonei  del araoiisfado  de  Mevi- 
c»  f  Mexico,  t'ol.,  I  ^  ;6. 

— Ordinjrium  ucri  ordinii  tttrtmitarum; 
Mexico,  4to,  I  ;;6. 

— Rtglai  y  (onililudOKe'  de  It  e',f'riidiii 
J*  In  iuramemoi;   Mcxiio,  fol.,  I  567. 

—  Iniiiiuiaordtnii  Beaii  Fraxciitii  Mexi- 
co, 4*0,1567. 


—Eilaluioi f^eneraUi  de  Barieltnai  Mexi- 
co, 410,  i;g;  (fur  the  order  of  the  Fran- 
ciscans). 

—  Conitilulionei  erdinii  fraerum  irtmi- 
tarum  Sii'Hli  j4uguiliHi  ;  Mexico,  gvo, 
ISS-. 

— Forma  y  mtJo  Jt  fundar  Iji  (of'rjdui 
del  cordon  dt  N.  P.  S.  Franduof  Mexico, 
8vo,  I  ^89. 

—  Fiinddiion  r  indil^eneiai  dr  la  crden  de 
la  .Mer,ed.  ;  Mexico,  Xvo,  I  ^9;. 

—Rtfla  dt  lot  f'railti  memrti  (  Mexico, 

4"'-  •<9'!- 

— Deretko  dt  lat  igltiiai  mttripoluanat 
dt  lai  Indian  .Madiid.  4to.  16^4  (lf>i; 
and  1637  *). 

The  I'hurch  history  ot'  that  diitractr.l 
country  is  blended  in  so  great  a  degree 
with  superstitions,  more  contemptible  even 
than  the  idolatry  which  they  were  in- 
tended to  supersede,  that  we  deem  it  a  sal 
necessity  for  the  historian  to  feel  compelhd 
to  peruse  such  miserable  productions  as  the 
following  I 

— UoN(;oiiA  Y  Sii.uiNiA,  P'lmavt'j 
Indiana,  foema  lacrt  de  M.  S.  de  Guada- 
loupe;  — ,  8vu,  1668  (I*inklo-Ba«cia,  cul. 
840). 

— Luis  CllsiKJi.  Ihitona  de  Na.  Sa. 
de  lot  remedial  de  .Mexi.  .,  /ue  llevo  yuan 
Rodrij^uet  de  I'illa-jurrit  a  la  conjiinlj ; 
Mexico, — .  1611  (Tkksaix,  No.  4}0- 

— Huei  Tlam.iiuizoliica.  unrc^exiii  inil- 
huicac  Tlaloc.i  tiuafille  Sa.  .Ma.  TotUion- 
iinizin  (>uad.i,'oupe  f  M.'xici,  4[i>,  1649. 
iTmNAiix,  No.  683.) 

"•  Ordeiacai y  iopil.u nn  de  Leyei;  Mex- 
ico, fol.,  I  ^48  (organizing  the  courts  of 
law,  regulating  the  lawyers,  attorneys, 
constables.  Ace,  Ace,  enacted  in  April. 
I  ?i8).      See  in/ra. 

-Leyei  y  ordenancai  nueuamtit  ktikji 
for  iu  Maj^eitad,  p'a  la  guernaiion  de  lai 
Indiai  V  I'uen  trjtamienio  y  ionieruaiion  ue 
ki  hdi"!  I  Alcala,  ful..  154].  (Laws 
i.-iued  by  Charles  V.  limiting  the  parti- 
tions of  lands  among  the  lonj.iriiadorei  ) 

— Philippui    Uiifanumm     el    hdiarum 


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expression  is  not  superlatively  pretentious  when  applied 
to  the  crude  digests  of  laws  and  ordinances  framed  from 
time  to  time  by  Spain  for  her  distant  colonies)  neces- 
sarily find  a  place  in  this  connection.  Nor  are  G-.-og- 
raphy  and  Archteology  to  be  neglected.  We  therefore 
mention  the  curious  works  of  Francesco  Cervantes  de 
Sala/ar"',  Diego  de  Cisneros*',  F.  de  Cepeda"',  F.  de 
Burgoa"*,  Villa-Senor  y  Sanche/"*',  A.  Leon  y  Gama"'', 
(icmclli  Careri*'^  (i.  K.  Carli**",  Bu stamen te'-*,  Alexander 
von  Humboldt'*'',  ard  the  sumptuous  collections  of 
drawings  of  monuments  and  hieroglyphics  published  by 
Dei  Rio  or  Cabrera',  Nebel",  Lenoir,  Warden  and 
h'arcy",  Fred,  de  Waldeck",  Wethcrell^  Charnay'",  and 
especially  by  the  unfortunate  Lord  Kiiigsborough''". 


1522, 


Rfx.  ProTii,  ftJulai,  tec;  Mexico,  M., 
n6i.  (There  is  a  copy  ot  tliii  cxtnnifly 
rjiT  .iriil  iiiipiirtitit  suniiiuiry  nt'  Spani-li 
iiil.mi.il  I.1W  iiy  Vaico  p»  Puda,  in  j  pri- 
vati  libr  .  I'roviclrntc,  R.  I.) 

— Sumano  Je  rtiofilaiion  gtneral  Jt  An 
lt\ti  V  orJtnanxiii  aur  if  kan  f>r„mu!giiJo 
f;r  L>i  Indiai  ociidenlalu  {  Ma  Itiil,  ful., 
l6tS. 

"'  Dialo/^i  dt  Aaidemui  Mtxiiariit:  Civi- 
tJi  Uericui  iiiltr.  Civiliii  Mtx.cui  txirr.  { 
.\ti-\iiii,  Juan  l*.ibli»,  8vo,  I  ^^4.  (The 
only  iiipy  known  o(  this  lurious  lollcc- 
tlun  ol'  dialogues  is  in  a  piivatr  lilnarN,  in 
tlir  city  lit  Mexico.  Wr  suppose  thr 
author  to  be  identical  with  the  ('i.R- 
VA  <TEi  mentioned  hy  Anionin,  B.  H. 
\t.va,  I,  414.) 

"'  Siiij,  naiurj/f^a  \  prnfitjjjti  de  la 
ciiidad  lie  Mexito  f   Mexico,  4to,  1618. 

"*  Relacmn  uni-verial  y  verjaderj  del 
liih  tn  rfue  eua  Jundadj  la  ciudad  de 
Mexito  i  Mexico,  t'ol,,  1657. 

•*  Geogrj/i,a  deunfxiim  de  la  farie  Sep- 
lenirional,  del  polo  artui  de  la  .'Imerita,  y 
nueva  Igieiia  de  lat  Indiai  (kcidenlalet  f 
Mexico,  lol.,  1674. 

See  also  the  anonymous : 

— Rfionoamiemoi  de  lot  rioi  del  valle  de 
Mericof  Mexico,  to!..  |"48. 

'*  Tkeatro  jimericano,  deuription  f^eneral 
de    /of    reynoi    y    p'iviiitiai    de    la    lueva 
tipaHai  Mid  rid,  3  vuli.,  »1>I.,  1746-4!) 
74- 


"*  Description  Hiiiorita y  C'onoUiiea  di 
lai  d',i  I'iedrati  Mexico,  410,  I'yi;  id. 
(with  the  .^hiition  ol  a  second  part),  8vo, 
i8p. 

"'  Giro  del  Monde  <  Naples,  6  voli., 
Iimo.  l6yy-l"oo. 

"*  Utile  Leiitre  ^mericaiie,  Cosmopoll 
(i.e.,  Florence),  I  vols,,  8vn,  1780. 

"•  E»ai  Volitijue  lur  le  royaume  de  la 
Nouvelle  Eipagne  i  Paris,  1  vols.,  410,  and 
one  folio  tor  the  Atlas,  1811. 

-  yun  del  Cordillerei  el  monumeiili  dtt 
peuplei  indif^inei  de  I'^mtrijuef  Paris,  i 
voU.,  t'ol,,  1810, 

•°  Veil  tipii in  of  the  ruini  of  an  ancient 
lily  dii(o-vered  near  I'alenjue  i  Lonlon, 
4to,  1811, 

"  l^oyage  piiioreijui  tt  arekeeUgti/in 
dam  la  pariie  la  plui  intercitante  du  Ale*- 
i/ue  ;    Paris,  led  ,  18  j6. 

"'  Antiijuiin  Mixicainen  Paris,  3  vols., 
t'ol.,  1X^4  56.  (Capt.  Oupaix'  threi- expe- 
ditions to  Mitka  an<l  P.ilemjue,  iXo;--.) 

"  Coltccion  de  lai  /Iniitjuedadei  Mexi- 
canal  (jue  eciiilen  tn  el  Muieo  nacionalf 
Mexico,  lol.,  iXl". 

—  fayage  piiloreijue  el  arcieologifm 
dam  la  province  d' Yucatan  f  P.iris,  fol., 
1838, 

"  Calalogo  de  una  Ciltccion  dt  An- 
liguid.idei  .Mexicanai  i  Seville,  4tu,  1842. 

"  fuel  I'ki/lograpkijuei  del  ancient 
mcnumtnli  du  Mcxifui ;    Paris,  ful.,  1861, 


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As  to  the  poems  of  Ga jriel  Lasso  de  la  Vega^,  A.  de 
,  Saavedra  Guzman'^,  Melchior  de  la  Vega^\  Bernardino 
de  Balbuena'^',  J.  Osorio  Cortes'°°,  Caspar  de  Villagra'°', 
Arias  Villalobas'"*,  Fernando  de  Zarate'"',  F.  Ruiz  de 
Leon'°S  J.  de  Escoiquiz'%  P.  Roure'°°,  Roux  de  Ro- 
chelle'%  and  of  several  anonymous  versifiers'"^,  or  the 
plays  of  Josef  Canizares'%  Firmin  del  Rey"°,  Piron'", 
Alfonso  Cavacio"^  and  even  of  Lope  de  Vega'"  and 
John  Dryden"'*,  we  apprehend  that  they  present  but 
little  interest  to  the  student  of  history. 

Concerning  the  biography  and  bibliography  of  the 
early  Mexican  writers,  the  reader  will  find  abundant  mate- 
rials in  the  rare  compilations  of  J,  J.  Eguiara  y  Eguiren"', 
J.  L.  Maneiro"^  and  J.  M.  Beristain  y  Souza"7. 


"  Primera  parte  de  Cortes  valeroso  y  la 
Mexycana ;  Madrid,  410,  1588  (12  can- 
tos); id.,  i2mo,  1594,  with  tlie  addition 
of  I  3  cantos. 

— E/ogios  en  loor  de  los  tres  famosos 
•varcnes  D.  Jayme,  rey  de  Aragon,  D.  Fer- 
nando Cortez,  marjucz  de!  val/e,  y  D. 
Al-varo  Bazan ;  Saragossa,  izmo,  1601. 

"  El  Peregrins  Indiana,  Poima  de  los 
Heclios  de  Hernan  Cortes;  Madrid,  l2mo, 
1599.  (There  was  to  be  a  second  part, 
which  has  never  been  publislied.) 

'*  Relacion  de  las  grandexas  del  Peru, 
Mexico  y  los  Angeles ;  Mexico,  i2mo, 
1601. 

"  Grande%a  Mexicana  del  bachiller  B. 
de  Balbuena i  Mexico,  i2mo,  1604.  (Ef- 
fusion of  a  poet  praised  by  Lope  de  Vega. 
See  Tf.rnaux,  No.  269.)  Reprinted,  Mad- 
rid, i8mo,  1829. 

'°°  Cortesiada,  Poema  heroico  de  Don 
Hernando  Cortes,  dedicado  al  Rey  Don  Fe- 
lipe 4°  el  Grande.  (MS.  in  the  Biblioteca 
Real,  apud  Alcedo,  Bibliot.  Am.  MS.  and 
Barcia-Pinelo.) 

""  Historia  de  laNueva  Mexico;  Alcala, 
l2ino,  1 610.  It  is  alleged  that  Cortes 
went  as  far  as  what  is  now  called  in  the 
United  States  Nenu  Mexico. 

""  Historia  de  Mexico  desde  la  fundacion 
liasta  1623;   Mexico, — ,  1623. 

""  C'.njuista  de  Mexico. 

'"*  Hernandia,  triunphos  de  la  Fe y  gloria 
de  las  a'tnas  espaholas;  proezas  de  Hernan 
Cortes,  Poema  heroyco;    Madrid,  4tj,  175?. 


"'  Mexico  conquistada,  Poema  heroica  ; 
Madrid,  3  vols,  8vo,  1798. 

'°°  La  Conqu'ete  du  Mexique,po'eme  en  10 
chants,  with  historical  notes;  Paris,  8vo, 
1811. 

'"  Fernand  Cortez,  Poeme :  Paris,  8vo, 
1838. 

"""  O'jediencia  que  Mexico  dio  al  ref  D. 
Felipe  IV  con  un  discurso  en  -verso  del  e'stadu 
de  la  misma  ciudad  desde  el  mas  antiguo  de 
su fundacion,  imperio y  conquista  hasta  hoy; 
Mexico,  4to,  1623. 

— Le  Mexique  conquis,  Poime  hiroique  ; 
Paris,  8vo,  1751. 

— L'Eroismo  di  Ferdinando  Cortese  con- 
fermato  contre  le  censure  nemiche ;  Rom.-, 
8vo,  1806.      (A  poem  or  a  comedy  ?) 

—  The  fall  of  Mexico,  4t(.,  n.  d.  ( Raet- 
zel  Cat.ilogue,  No.  1670.) 

'"»  El  Pteyto  de  Hernan  Cortez. 

""  Hernan  Cortez  en  Tabasco  {apudTsR- 
NAux,  No.  443). 

'"  Fernan  Cortez,  Comi-die ;  Paris,  8vo, 
1744  (translated  into  Spanish,  Malrid, 
8vo,  1776). 

"'  Motee;uma,  Emperador  de  Mexico; 
Tragcdia,  1709.  12.  Italiano  (Pinf.i.u- 
Barcia). 

"'  Marquez  del  Valle. 

"*  The  Indian  Emperour  or  the  Cmquest 
of  Mexico  by  the  Spaniards  ;  Lond>)n, 
1651  i  1667.  1668,  1692,  1700,  all  in  4to. 

"'  Bibliotheca  Mexicana,  seu  historia 
•virorum  in  America  boreale  natorum;  Mex- 
ico, fol.,  1775.     (Contains  only  the  letters 


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It  is  not  in  times  when  Piiilology   has  been  found    1 522, 

to  present  the  most  efficient  and  reliable  means  of  ascer- 

taining  the  history  of  the  early  migrations  of  primitive 
races,  that  we  should  overlook  the  praiseworthy  efforts 
of  Seiiores  Orozco  y  Berra'"*,  Francisco  Pimentei"',  and 
the  valuable  index  of  Dr.  H.  E.  Ludwig"°,  which,  how- 


A,  B,  C,  but  many  disscrtatijns  of  interest. 
Copy  in  private  libr.,  N.  Y.) 

'"A  -viris  aliquot  MexicaiKrum  alio- 
rum'fie  qui  sive  ■virtutt,  si-ve  litteris,  Mexici 
imprimis Jioruerunt i  Bologna,  3  voh.,  8vo, 
1791. 

'"  Bihliotheca  Hiipano- Americana  Sep- 
tentrionai'i  Mexico,  3  vols., 4to,  1816-1821. 

"'  Gcografia  de  las  Lenguas  y  Carta 
Etiinogrdfica  de  Mexico;  Mexico,  8vo, 
1864. 

'"'  Cuadro  descripti-vo  y  comparati-vo  de 
las  Lenguas  Indigenas  de  Mexico ;  Mexico, 
a  vols.,  8vo,  1862-65. 

'""  Tlie  Literature  of  American  Abori- 
ginal Languages.  Bibliotheca  Glottica  f 
London,  8vo,  1858.  (This  valuable  work 
is  evidently  based,  in  its  present  form,  upon 
the  American  portion  of  Vater,  Litt.  der 
Gram.  Lexica  und  JV'orters.  alter  Sprachen 
der  Erde ;  Berlin,  8vo,  1847.) 

As  to  manuscript  sources,  the  reader 
will  be  pleased  to  learn  that  copies  of  the 
following  unpublished  works  are  in  a  pri- 
vate library  in  New  York  : 

— EsTRELLA  (J.  C.  C. )  de  Rebus  Indicis. 

— DuRAN  (DiiGo)  Historia  Antigua  de 
Nueva  Espafta,  3  large  vols.,  with  numer- 
ous colored  drawings  of  Mexican  hiero- 
glyphics.     (See  supra,  note  10.) 

— ZoRiT.\  (  Alonzo  de)  Breve  y  Sumaria 
Relacion  de  los  Senores,  maneras,  y  difer- 
encias  que  havia  de  ellos  en  la  Nueva 
£spa5a. 

— GoNGORA,  Lista  de  los  Conquistadores 
de  Nueva  Espafia. 

— Relacion  de  la  provincia  de  Meztitlan 
por  Gabriel  de  Chaves. 

— Cartas  de  Fr.  Juan  de  Zumarraga 
primero  Obispo  de  Mexicco,  1529. 

— Pasqual  de  Andagova,  Descripcion  de 
las  Provincias  de  Tierra-Firme  y  relacion 
de  lo  ocurrido  en  ellas  desde  1514,  iijot.^. 
1541. 

In  a  private  library,  Washington  city  : 

— Historia  antigua  de  la  Nueva  Espafia, 


con  noticias  de  los  ritos  y  custumbres  y 
explicacion  del  calendario  Mexicano,  por 
el  Padre  Fr.  Diego  UubTan,  de  la  orden 
de  Santo-Domingo,  escrita  en  el  ano  de 
1588.     (See  supra.) 

— Relacion  de  las  ceremonias  y  pobla- 
cion  y  gubernacion  de  los  Indios  de  la  pro- 
vincia de  Mechuachan,  hecha  al  lUmo 
Seiior  Dn.  Antonio  de  Mendoza.  (Anony- 
mous.) 

The  following  manuscripts,  collected  by 
Prescott,  are  now  in  a  private  library  in 
Boston,  Mass. : 

— Relaciones  de  los  primeros  Descubri- 
dores  de  Nueva  Espafia  [originals  in  the  Vi- 
enna Imperial  Library) ;  Relacion  del  des- 
cubrimiento  y  conquista  de  Nueva  Espafia, 
escrita  al  Emperador  Carlos  V°  y  su  madre 
D'  Juana  por  la  Justicia  y  Reximiento 
de  la  ciudad  de  Vera  Cruz  a  diez  dias  Je 
Julio  de  1519;  Segunda  Relacion  de  Her- 
nan  Cortes  a  el  mismo  Emperador,,!  30  de 
octubre  de  1520;  Tercera  Relacion  em- 
biada  por  Hernando  Cortes  al  Emperador,  a 
15  de  mayi  de  1522;  Quarta  ReLicion  de 
Hernando  Cortes  dirigida  al  Emperador,  i 
15  de  octubre  de  1524  ;  Una  Relaci'-n  de 
Pedro  de  Alvarado  .a  Hernando  Cortes 
escrita  en  Vilatan  a  once  de  abril  (year 
not  mentioned) ;  Otra  Relacion  de  Pedro 
de  Alvarado,  escrita  en  S"  Tiago  a  28 
de  Julio  de  1523;  Relacion  de  Pedro  de 
Godoy  a  Fernando  Cortes  (no  date);  Ex- 
tracto  de  los  Primeros  Descubrimientos 
de  F.  Pizarro  y  D.  de  Almagro  hecho  por 
Juan  de  Samanos  para  remitir  a  algun 
principe,  que  no  se  expresa  quien  sea; 
Relacion  de  Hernan  Cortes  al  Empera- 
dor (no  date);  Despacho,  Instruccion  y 
Cartas  dadas  por  Cortes  a  Antonio  Gival 
para  Alvaro  de  Saavedra  el  ano  de  1526; 
Table  of  Contents  of  the  "  Coleccion  de 
Memorias  de  Nueva  Espafia,"  in  32  vol- 
umes, collected  and  prepared  by  order  of 
the  Spanish  government  in  1792.  Los 
''rimeros   Seiiores    de  Teotihuacan   y    sus 


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I  C2  2.    ever  much  improved  by  the  additions  and  corrections  of 

■  W.  W.  Turner,  is  destined  to  be  surpassed  by  the  new 

edition  which  will  soon  be  published  by  the   learned, 

modest,    indefatigable  and  disinterested    Dr.   Berendt, 

•  now  engaged  in  exploring  the  comparatively  unknown 

and  mysterious  island  of  Peten,  in  Guatemala. 

Whatever  may  be  the  importance  of  the  facts  related 
in  several  of  the  above-mentioned  works,  the  fountain- 


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comarcas ;  Poems,  &c.,  by  the  Emperor 
Nezahualcoyott,  translated  into  Spanish  by 
his  descendant,  Fernando  de  Alva  (and  into 
English  by  Prescott,  Appendix  to  his  Hist, 
of  Mexico,  Vol.  in,  p.  429). 

— Documents  from  the  Collection  of  Don 
yuan  Bautista  MuHoz :  Rebcion  de  la 
carta  que  los  Alcaldes  y  Regidores  de  la 
Villa  de  Vera  Cruz  scriven  a  V.  Mag.  e 
de  lo  que  ha  pasado  en  su  viage  e  pobla- 
cion,  a  seis  de  julio  de  1519;  Letter  of 
Diego  Velasquez,  Gonzalo  de  Guzman, 
and  Panfilo  de  Narvaez  to  M.  de  Chievrcs, 
Oct.  12,  1 519;  Letter  from  D.  Velasquez 
to  Chievres,  Oct.  12,  1519;  Instructions 
of  Velasquez  to  Cortes,  Oct.  23,  1518; 
Letter  of  Pasamonte  to  Charles  V.,  Jan. 
15,  1520;  Deposition  of  F.  de  Montejo, 
April  29,  1520;  Deposition  of  Puertocar- 
rero,  April  30,  1520;  Letter  from  the 
Audiencia  of  San  Domingo  to  the  Em- 
peror, inclosing  a  report  from  the  licen- 
tiate Ayllon,  Governor  of  Cuba,  Aug.  30, 
I  520  ;  Ordenanzas  militates  y  civiles,  Tax- 
calteque,  Dec.  22,  1520,  and  Mexico, 
March  20,  1524;  Accusations  of  Narvaez 
against  Cortes,  without  date;  Letter  of  the 
licentiate  Zuazo,  Governor  of  Cuba,  and 
Fray  Luis  de  Figueroa,  Nov.  14,  1521  ; 
De  Rebus  gestis  Ferdin.  Cortesii,  incerto 
auctore ;  Relacion  de  la  plata  que  se  hubo 
de  la  Provincia  de  Mechoacan,  &c.;  Com- 
mission to  Cortes  as  Governor,  &c.,  of 
New  Spain,  Oct.  15,  1522;  Power  of  at- 
torney from  Cortes  to  his  father.  May  8, 
1522;  CeJula  declarando  que  la  Nueva 
Espafla  no  puede  ser  enagenada  de  la  co- 
rona, 22  de  octubre,  1523;  Gastos  de  la 
expedicion  quellevo  Cristoval  Dolid,  1523; 
Minuta  de  carta  de  Cortes  a  Francisco 
Cortes,  1524;  Ynstruccion  civil  y  militar 
a  Francisco  Cortes  por  la  expedicion  de  la 
costa  de  Colima,  1524;   Memorials  with- 


out date,  addressed  by  Cortes  to  the  Em- 
peror, respecting  the  affairs  of  New  Spain; 
Letter  of  the  Emperor  to  Cortes,  Nov. 
4,  1525;  Letter  of  Cortes  to  the  Audi- 
encia of  San  Domingo,  May  10,  1526; 
Letters  of  Cortes  to  the  Emperor,  Sept. 
II,  1526;  Letter  to  the  Emperor  (with- 
out signature  or  date)  respecting  gold  sent 
by  Cortes  to  Spain ;  Memorial  contra  el 
de  Luis  Cardenas,  15  de  julio,  1528; 
Letter  of  the  Emperor  granting  to  Cortes 
the  title  of  Marques  del  Valle,  July  6, 
1529;  Grant  of  estates  to  Cortes,  July  23, 
1529;  Memoria  de  lo  acaecido  en  esta 
ciudad  de  Temixtitan  despues  quel  Gover- 
nador  Hernando  Cortes  salio  della  que  fue 
a  lo  doce  dias  dei  mes  de  octubre  de  1525  ; 
Report  addressed  to  the  Emperor  by  Rod- 
rigo  Albornoz,  Dec.  15,  1525;  Report 
of  Nuno  de  Guzman  of  the  ufFairs  of 
Panuco  and  New  Galicia  during  his  gov- 
ernment, no  date  ;  Privilegio  de  Dofta 
Ysabel  Motezuma,  otogardo  por  Cortes, 
June  27,  1526;  Reports  of  Diego  de 
Ocana  respecting  affairs  of  Mexico,  Aug. 
31,  Sept.  9,  Sept.  17,  1526;  Lo  que  el 
Marques  del  Valle  escrive  al  Licenciado 
Nuiiez  que  haga  relacion  a  V.  M.  sobre  las 
cosas  de  la  Nueva  Espaiia,  &c.  (no  date); 
Letter  of  Cortes  to  the  Council  of  the 
Indies,  Feb.  8,  1535;  Letter  of  Don  A. 
de  Mendoza  to  the  Emperor,  Dec.  10, 
1537;  Letter  of  Cortes,  Sept.  29,  1538; 
Memorial  addressed  to  the  King  by  the 
Indian  caciques  of  Santiago  de  Atitlan, 
Feb.  I,  1571  ;  Memorial  de  lo  que  se  pide 
por  D.  Juan  de  Motezuma,  hijo  de  Juan 
Cano  y  de  Doiia  Ysabel  de  Motezuma, 
&c.  (no  date), 

— Documents  from  the  Collection  of  Var- 
gas Ponze  :  Memorial  de  Benito  Martinez, 
capellan  de  Diego  Velazquez  contra  Her- 
nan    Cortes   (no   date)  ;    Ynstruccion   de 


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head  of  information  concerning  the  conquest  of  Mexico 
will  always  be  the  numerous  epistolary  accounts  written  . 
by  Cortes  himself.  It  is  to  be  regretted  that  they  have 
not  been  all  published.  Senor  Icazbalceta  gives  a  list  of 
not  less  than  thirty-three  of  Fernando  Cortes*  "  escritos 
rueltos"  A'hich,  added  to  the  following  printed  Cartas 
de  Relacion,  would  form  a  volume  of  paramount  interest. 
In  the  absence  of  the  Carta  de  Relacion,  dated  Villa 
Rica  de  la  Vera-Cruz,  July  lo,    15 19,   which  has  not 


1522. 


Diego  Velazquez  ;\  Cortes  y  Grijalva,  Oct. 
13,  1518;  Letter  of  Velazquez  to  Chicvrcs, 
Oct.  12,  1 519;  Informacioncs  rccibidas 
por  comision  de  la  AudiencHl  ile  S'"  Do- 
mingo para  impedir  la  salida  de  la  Armada 
que  Uevo  Panfilo  de  Narbaes ;  Carta  que 
Diego  Velazquez  escribio  al  Licenciado 
Fi|;ueroa  para  que  hiciese  relacion  a  sus 
niagestades  de  lo  que  le  habia  fecho  Fer- 
nando Cortes;  Provanza  fecha  a  pcdimento 
de  Juan  Ochoa  de  Lexalde  en  nombre  de 
Hernando  Cortes,  Capitan  General,  &c., 
sobre  las  diligencias  que  el  dicho  capitan 
hizopara  no  se  perdiese  el  oro  e  joyas  de 
sus  Mag.'  que  estaban  en  la  ciudad  de 
Temistitan ;  Instruccion  de  la  Audiencia 
de  la  Ver.icruz  a  los  procuradores  que 
envio  a  la  Corte  j  Petition  to  the  Em- 
peror, signed  by  544  soldiers  in  the  army  of 
Cortes,  requesting  that  the  latter  may  be 
continued  in  the  government  of  New 
Sj'ain;  Carta  del  Licenciado  Aylkm  sobre 
la  armada  de  Velazquez,  4  de  marzo, 
1520;  Interrogatories  relative  to  disputes 
between  Velasquez  and  Cortes,  Oct.  4, 
1520;  Lo  que  paso  con  Cristobal  de  Tapia 
acerca  de  no  admitirle  por  governador  con 
los  Procuradores  de  Mexico  y  demas  pob- 
lacioncs  y  los  de  Cortes,  Dec.  1521  ;  Re- 
querimientos  para  que  no  fuese  [Cortes]  a 
Vera-Cruz,  donde  era  llegado  Cristobal  de 
Tapia,  por  Governador  de  Nueva  Espana, 
y  su  respuesta,  Dec.  12,  1521;  Rcqueri- 
miento  sobre  el  saqueo,  Aug.  14,  1521; 
Instruccion  que  se  dio  al  Licenciado  Luis 
Ponce  de  Leon  para  la  pesquiza  de  Cortes ; 
Propuesta  de  Hernando  Cortes  para  seguir 
los  descubrimientos  por  el  Mar  del  Sur, 
July  14,  1523;  Grant  <of  lands  and  vas- 
sals to  Cortes,  July  6,  1529;  Letters 
granting  Cortes  the  title  of  Captain-General, 
April  I,  1529;  Relacion  de  los  cargos  que 


resultan  de  la  pesquiza  secreta  contra  Don 
Hernando  Cortes;  Faculdad  real  para  fun- 
dir  moyorazgo,  fuly  27,  i  529  ;  Cartas  de 
Hernan  Cortes  al  Emperador,  10  de  octubre, 
1530,  y  25  de  enero,  1531;  Minuta  del 
prorurador  de  Cortes ;  Instruccion  que  da 
el  Marques  del  Valle  de  sus  servicius  y 
agravios  recibidos  en  Nueva  Espana  y 
mientras  su  conquista,  aflo'de  1532  ;  Carta 
de  Hernan  Cortes  al  Emperador,  20  de 
abril,  1532;  Provision  sobre  los  descu- 
brimientos del  Sur;  1534;  Peticion  que 
dio  [Cortes]  contra  Don  Antonio  de  Men- 
doza,  virrey  ;  Ultima  y  sentidisima  carta  de 
Cortes  al  Emperador,  3  de  feb.  1544; 
Testamento  de  Hernan  Cortes,  1 1  de  Oct. 
1547;  Document  relating  to  burial  of 
Cortes  and  removal  of  his  remains ;  Peti- 
tion addressed  to  the  Emperor  by  Indian 
chiefs  of  Tlacopan,  1552. 

— Documents  from  the  Collection  of  Mu- 
floz  :  Grant  of  Arms  to  Cortes,  March  7, 
1525;  Cedula  de  S.  M.  de  20  de  junio  de 
1526  a  Cortes  mandandole  vaya  a  las 
Vslas  dc  Maluco  6  mande  ir  a  saber  de  las 
armadas  que  a  ellas  avian  ydo  ;  Carta  diri- 
giua  al  obispo  de  Osma,  Fr.  Garcia  de 
Loaysa,  por  Hernan  Cortes  a  12  de  Enero 
de  1527;  Relation  of  a  voyage  of  discovery 
by  Pedro  Nuflez  Maldonada,  laid  before 
the  Audience  of  Mexico,  Jan.  23,  1529; 
Cedula  de  1°  de  abril  de  1529;  Merced 
de  titulo  de  Castilla  a  Cortes,  20  de  julio 
de  I  529  ;  Asiento  y  capitulacion  que  hizo 
con  el  Emperador  Don  Hernando  Cortes, 
a  27  de  Oct.  de  1529,  para  el  descubrimi- 
ento,  conquista,  y  poblacion  de  las  Yslas 
y  tierras  del  mar  del  Sur  al  poniente  de  la 
Nueva  Espafia  ;  Capitulo  de  carta  del 
Marques  del  Valle  escrita  al  Emperador, 
20  de  abril,  1532;  Instruccion  que  dio 
el    Marques   del    Valle,    aflo   de    1532  ; 


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1522.    yet  been  discovered,  either  in  print  or  manuscript,  but 
_______  the  existence  of  which  does  not  admit  of  doubt,  as  it  is 

mentioned  by  Peter  Martyr,  Gomara,  and  Cortes  him- 
self, we  must  notice  the  account  which  was  sent  together 
with  that  lost  document,  viz.  : 

Relacion  del  Desctibrimiento  y  Conquisla  de  la  Nueva 
Espafia,  hecha  por  la  Justida  y  Regimiento  de  la  nueva 
ciudad  de  la  V era-Cruz.,  Julio  10,  15 19. 

This  was  published  for  the  first  time  in  the  A''.  .S".  *!>'. 
Coleccion'",  and  republished  by  Vedia'". 


i  Diego  Hurtado  de  Mendoza  para  e) 
viage  que  devia  hacer  al  descubrimiento 
del  Mar  del  Sur;  Instruccion  que  dio  el 
Marques  del  Valle  a  Juan  de  Avellaneda, 
Jorge  Ceron,  y  Juan  Galvarro  de  la  rela- 
cion que  avian  de  hacer  a  S.  M.  del  des- 
cubrimientodel  Mar  del  Sur,  &c.;  Relacion 
del  armada  del  Marques  del  Valle  capi- 
taneada  de  Francisco  de  UUoa  que  salio  del 
puerto  de  Acapulco  y  descubrio  el  rio  de 
Culata ;  Memorial  que  presento  en  el  con- 
sejo  real  de  las  Indias  Nuflo  de  Guzman 
en  20  de  marzo  de  1 540;  Memorial  que 
dio  al  Rev  el  Marques  del  Valle  en  Mad- 
rid a  25  de  juni.)  de  1540  sobre  agravios 
que  le  havia  hecho  el  Virrey  de  Nueva 
Kspaiia ;  Memorial  de  Don  Antonio  Ve- 
lazquez de  Bazan  acerca  de  la  mercefi  que 
pide  a  S.  M.;  Memorial  de  Cortes  al  Em- 
perador  de  la  ciudad  de  Tezcuco,  10  de 
octubre,  1530;  Apuntamiento  original  de 
Cortes;  Relacion  de  Nuno  de  Guzman, 
en  Omitlan  a  8  de  julio.  1530;  Relacion 
que  dio  Pedro  de  Carranza  de  la  Jornada 
de  N.  de  Guzman;  Memorial  de  Juan  de 
Villanueva  en  nombre  de  Cortes  sobre  lo 
que  empleo  y  gasto  para  el  descubrimiento 
de  la  especeria,  &c. ;  Carta  de  Cortes  al 
Emperador,  25  de  enero,  1531  ;  Memorial 
de  Juan  de  Villanueva  en  nombre  de 
Cortes,  haciendo  saber  como  N.  de  Guz- 
man Uevo  en  grillos  el  Cazonci ;  Royal 
mandate  forbidding  Cortes  to  approach 
within  ten  leagues  of  the  city  of  Mexico, 
March  22,  1530;  Letter  of"  N,  de  Guzman 
to  the  Council,  accusing  Cortes  of"  cruelty 
to  the  Indians,  &c.,  June  7,  1535;  Carta 
de  Cortes  al  Emperador,  20  de  abril,  i  532; 
Carta  de  Cortes  a  la  Audiencia  de  Nueva 
EspaAa,  25  de  enero,  1533;  Carta  de  Cor- 


tes al  Emperador,  25  de  enero,  1533;  Carta 
de  Cortes  a  la  Audiencia  de  Nuevo  Espaila, 
10  de  feb.  1533;  Relaciones  de  Don  Fer- 
nando de  Alva  Ixtlilxodiitl  (extracted  fVom 
Vol.  iv.ofthe  Memorias  de  Nueva  Espafla). 

— From  the  Collections  of  MuHoz  and 
Navarrete  :  Fragmenjfjs  de  historia  de 
Nueva  Espafia.  (Historia  de  Tlascala  por 
Diego  Munoz  Camargo.)  Capitulos  de  la 
Cronica  Mexicana  de  Tezozomoc ;  Rela- 
cion de  los  descubrimientos  que  se  han 
hecho  desde  el  ano  de  1492  hasta  Jl  de 
1545  por  los  Espanoles  j  Instruccion  qur 
dio  el  capitan  Diego  Velazquez  en  la  Isla 
Fernandina,  en  23  de  octubre  de  1518,  al 
capitan  Hernando  Cortes ;  Memorial  que 
presento  al  Rey  Benito  Martinez  en  nom- 
bre del  Adelantado  Diego  Velazquez,  1 5 1 9 ; 
Parecer  que  dio  el  Licenciado  Ayllon  al 
Adelantado  Diego  Velazquez  sobre  el  ar- 
mada que  habia  aprestado  para  embiar  cen- 
tra Hernan  Cortes ;  Dos  cartas  escritas  .il 
Rey  por  el  Licenciado  Ayllon,  8  de  enero 
y  4  de  marzo  de  152OJ  Titulo  de  Gober- 
nador  de  las  fclas  y  Tierras  que  descubriese 
en  el  Mar  del  Sur  expcdido  por  S.  M.  al 
Marques  del  Valle,  5  de  nov.  1529;  Rela- 
cion del  viage  de  Fernando  de  Grijalva, 
aflo  de  1536;  Relaciones  de  otras  viages; 
Relacion  de  los  conquistadores  y  descubri- 
dores  de  la  Nueva  Espana,  a  donJe  fueron 
con  Hernando  Cortes,  Panfilo  de  Narvaez 
y  otros;  Venta  de  dos  navios  que  hizo  Juan 
Rodriguez  de  Villafuerte  al  Marques  del 
Valle,  4  de  nov.  1531. 

— Historia  de  los  Indios  de  Nueva  Espana 
por  Toribiode  Benavente  6  Motolinia. 

'"  Colecchn  tie  documentos  ineditos  para  la 
historia  de  Espafia  f  Madrid,  4to,  1842-65. 
Commenced  by  Navarrete,  and  continued 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


217 


We  then  find  the  Carta  A,  dated  Villa  Segura  de  la 
Frontera,  October  30th,  1520,  which  contained  a  chart 
of  the  Gulf  of  Mexico,  now  lost,  but  supposed  to  be 
the  original  of  the  map  in  the  Nuremberg  Latin  edi- 
tion of  1524.  The  first  edition  of  A  is  the  present 
No.  118  ;  the  second  edition,  which  we  call  B,  was  pub- 
lished at  Saragossa,  in  1523  {infra). 

A  was  followed  by  a  Carta  dated  Cuyocan,  May  15th, 
1522,  which  was  printed  at  Seville  in  1^23  {infra). 
This,  which  we  call  C,  was  sent,  together  with  a  secret 
epistle,  to  the  Emperor  V.  The  latter  was  first  pub- 
lished in  the  N.  S.  >S\  €oleccion"-\  and  republished  by 
Kingsborough"'*. 

The  next  is  a  Carta  dated  Temixtitan,  October 
15th,  1524,  printed  at  Toledo,  in  1525  {infra).  We 
call  this  D.  The  second  edition  of  D  was  printed  at 
Valencia  in  1526  {infra),  and  we  letter  it  E, 

D  v/v.s  sent,  together  with  a  secret  letter,  which  was 
published  for  the  first  time  by  Senor  Icazbalceta'^'. 

The  original ,  editions  seem  to  end  with  E.  The 
other  Cartas  are  all  modern  publications,  viz.  : 

Carta  de  relacion,  dated  Temixtitan,  Sept.  3d,  1526"*. 

Carta  al  Emperador,  dated  Temixtitan,  Sept.  nth, 
1526"^, 

Carta  al  Emperador,  dated  Tezcucco,  October  loth, 
1530"^ 

Memorial  al  Emperador, ,  1539"'. 

Carta  al  Emperador,  dated  Feb.  3d,  1544"°. 


'"  ap.  N.  S.  S.   Cohccioi,  Vol.   I,  pp. 
4-13  J    K.INGSBOROUGH,  Antiquities,  Vol. 


by  Miguel  Salva  and  P.  Sainz  y  Baranda,         '"  ap.  N.  S.  S.  Coleccion,  Vol.  iv,  pp, 
Vol.  IV,  or  Vol.  I,  pp.  417-472  (eftaced     8-167  ( ?),and  VEDiA,i/('j/onW«r«,Vol.l, 
memorandum,  which  we  have   no  means 
of  verifying).  * 

'"    Historiadores  primitives   de    Indiasj 
Madrid,  2  vols.,  8vo,  1853,  Vol.  i. 

'"Vol.  I,  pp.  11-13. 

'"  Antiquities,  Vol.  vili. 

"*  Separately,  in  miniature  shape,  black 


VIII. 

•"  ap.  N.  S.  S.  Coleccion,  Vol.  i,*pp. 
31-41  ;  and  Kingsborough,  Antiquities, 
Vol.  VIII. 

'"  ap.  N.  S.  S.  Coleccion,  Vol.  iv,  pp. 
20I-6. 

"»  ap.  N.  S.  S.   Coleccion,  Vol.  i,  pp. 


letter,  and  certainly  one  of  the  prettiest 

typographical  curiosities  known.     Inserted 

also  in  this  gentleman's  Coleccion,  Vol.  I,     41-47  j    and  Kingsborough,    Antiquities, 

pp.  470-483.  Vol.  VIII. 

28 


1522. 


'fl^l 


.1 


*» 


1522. 


218  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

A,  C  and  D  were  republished  by  Barcia"',  Loren- 
zatia'^',  and  Vedia'". 

The  translations  are,  in  Latin : 

A,  Nuremberg,  1524  {infra),  Cologne,  1532  (infra), 
and  the  Novus  Orbis  of  1555  and  16 16. 

C,  Nuremberg,  1524  [infra),  Cologne,  1532,  and  the 
Novus  Orbis  of  1555''*  and  16 16. 

In  Italian : 

A,  Venice,  1524,  by  B.  de  Viano  {infra),  Venice,  1524; 
by  A.  de  Nicolini  {infra),  and  in  Ramusio'",  together 
with  C  and  D. 

There  is  an  abstract  of  A  in  the  following  No.  19. 
In  French  : 

A,  C  and  D  (erroneously  called  frst,  second  and  third 
accounts),  in  Flavigny's  Correspondance"^^,  from  Loren- 
zana's  text,  abridged. 

There  is  an  epitome  of  A  and  C  also  in  French,  but 
from  the  Latin,  Paris,  1532''^,  {infra). 

a 

In  English: 

A,  Philadelphia,  18 17-18  ;'^' A,  C  and  D,  New  York, 

1843'"- 

In  German: 

A  and  C,  Augsburg,  1550  {infra),  according  to  Bru- 


'"  Historiadores primitivos  de  lai  Indias; 
Madrid,  fol.,  1749,  Vol.  i  (inaccurately 
with  divisions  into  chapters  and  headings, 
not  in  the  original). 

'"  H'ntoria  de  Nueva  Espaiia  ;  Mexico, 
fol.,  1770  (from  Barcia's  texts,  with  omis- 
sions), and  in  the  reprint.  New  York,  8vo, 
1828  (which  contains  in  addition  an  intro- 
duction by  Mr.  Robert  Sands). 

"'  he  cit.,  Vol.  I. 

"*  PP-  536-677- 

'"  Raccolta,  Vol.  ill,  foil.  225-296,  sej. 

"•  Paris,  8vo,  iine  anno  (1778);  id., 
"En  Suisse,"  8vo,  1779. 

'"  Printed  by  Simon  de  Colines;  fol., 
155,  seq.  The  f^oyages  et  conqueues  du  Capi- 
taint  Fernando  Courlois,  es  Indet  Occiden- 


lales.  Histoire  traduite  de  langue  Eipagnole 
par  Guillaume  le  Breton  yivernoii;  Paris, 
l2mo,  1588  (Privat.  libr..  Providence)  is 
only  an  abridgement  of  Oviedo  and  the 
second  part  of  Gomaba. 

'"*  In  the  Port-folio,  by  Mr.  Alsop,  of 
Middletown,  Connecticut,  who  recom- 
mends the  work  at  o-ze  to  the  coniiding 
care  of  the  learned. 

'"  Dispatches  of  Hernando  Cortes,  8vo. 
The  Pleasant  Historie  of  the  conquest  of  the 
{Vest  India,  notu  called  New  Spaine.  At- 
chieved  by  th'  most  worthy  Prince  Hernan- 
do Cortes.  Translated  by  T.  [homas]  N. 
[icholas]  ;  London,  4to,  1596,  mentioned 
by  Graesse  under  the  head  of  Cortes,  15 
only  a  translation  from  Gomara. 


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Bibliotheca    Americana.  '  219  ' 

net'*°:   "  d'apres  la  version  latine  de  Savorgnanus,  par    I522i 
Andre   Diether,   maitre  de  langue  latine  a  Augsbourg  -_-——-_ 
(vers   1534),   in-fol."     A,  C  and  D,  by  Stapfer'*'  and 
Koppe'*\ 

In  Dutch : 

A,  C  and  D,  Amsterdam,  1780'*'. 

I  n  Flemish  :  .     - 

A  and  C,  from  Diether's  German  version,  by  Cor- 
nelius Abliin'*^. 

Our  readers  doubtless  recollect  that  Hernando  Cortes 
died  of  an  indigestion  in  a  village  near  Seville  (Castil- 
leja  de  la  Cuesta),  December  2d,  1547,  not  "dans  la 
misere,"  as  we  see  it  frequently  stated,  but  very  rich.  It 
is  known  that  his  body  was  first  transferred  to  the  family 
vault  of  the  Duke  de  Medina-Sidonia,  in  Seville;  from 
which  it  was  removed,  in  1562,  and  sent  to  the  monas- 
tery of  St.  Francis,  in  Tezcuco,  but  exhumed  in  • 
1629,  to  be  interred  in  the  convent  of  St.  Francis,  in 
the  city  of  Mexico,  and  again  disturbed  in  1794'+',  when 
it  was  deposited  in  a  tomb  prepared  in  the  celebrated 
Hospital  of  Jesus  of  Nazareth,  "  Unfortunately  for 
Mexico,"  Prescott  says'*^',  "  the  tale  does  not  stop  here. 
In  1823  the  patriot  mob  of  the  capital,  in  their  zeal  to 
commemorate  the  era  of  the  national  independence,  and 
their  detestation  of  the    *  old  Spaniards,'  prepared  to 


'*' Manuel,  Yo\.  ii,  col.  312.  If  the 
above  quotation  is  intended  to  convey  the 
impression  that  Diether  taught  Latin  at 
Augsburg  towards  1534,  we  can  find  noth- 
ing to  the  contrary;  but  if"  it  refers  to  an 
edition  of  1534,  we  apprehend  that  there 
is  an  error  in  the  date,  as  we  cannot  find 
any  traces  of  a  version  by  Diether  of  about 
'534- 

'"  Die  Eroberung  -von  Mexico,  in  Brief  en 
an  Carl  i^;  Heidelberg,  2  vols.,  8vo,  1779; 
id.,  Bern,  1793  (probably  from  Flavig.nv's; 
see  Meusel,  Vol.  m,  Pt.  i,  p.  270). 

'"  Berlin,  I  vol.,  8vo,  1834. 

'"  Brievenvon  Keizer  Karl  V,  2  vols., 
8vo. 


■"  Die  Nieuiue  ff^eerell ;  Antwerp,  fol., 
1563  (Privat.  libr.,  Providence). 

'**  Alaman,  Disertaciones,  Vol.  11,  pp. 
50-62,  and  Appendix  2,  pp.  50-98. 

'*•  Hist,  of  Mexico,  Vol.  ill,  p.  350. 
It  is  curious  to  notice  how  frequently  the 
graves  of  men  who  deserved  well  of  their 
country  have  been  desecrated  or  disturbed, 
especially  in  modern  timus.  The  ashes  of 
Boccacio,  Petrarch,  Voltaire,  J.  J.  Rous- 
seau, Ben  Jonson,  even,  have  not  been 
permitted  to  rest  in  peace.  (See  Agostini, 
Scritt.  Veneii.,  Vol.  i,  p.  301  ;  Baldei.li, 
del  Pelrarca,  p.  169,  cited  by  Libri,  His- 
tdre  del  Sciences  malhimaliques  en  Italic, 
Vol.  II,  p.  258,  of  the  wretched  Halle  re- 


iMa^^KrW 


220 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


IC22.   break  open  the  tomb  which  held  the  ashes  of  Cortes, 

and  to   scatter  them    to  the  winds  !      The   authorities 

declined  to  interfere  on  the  occasion ;  but  the  friendi,  of 
the  family,  as  is  commonly  reported,  entered  the  vault 
by  night,  and,  secretly  removing  the  relics,  prevented 
the  commission  of  a  sacrilege  which  must  have  left  a 
stain  not  easily  effaced,"  &c.,  &c. 

Humboldt  asserts"*'  that  he  had  "  vu  a  Mexico,  dans 
le  cabinet  du  capitaine  D  *  *  *,  une  cote  du  corps  de 
Fernand  Cortez  que  pendant  la  translation  des  ossemens 
a  la  nouvelle  chapelle  dans  I'hospital  de  Los  Naturales 
on  avait  enlevee"  but  what  has  become  of  the  rest  of  the 
body  ?   Mr.  Charton  states'''^  with  no  little  emphasis : 

"  Ce  que  n'a  point  dit  I'eminent  historien  du  Mexique,  nous 
sommes  en  mesure  de  raffirmer  aujourd'hui :  les  testes  de  Cortez  sont 
en  Italic,  dans  L-s  domaines  du  due  de  Terra-Nova-Monteleone,  der- 
nier descendai  ■  par  les  femmes  du  celebre  conquerant'"." 

We  have  laken  pains  to  inquire  from  several  residents 
of  the  city  of  Mexico.  Seflor  Icazbalceta,  whose  author- 
ity no  one  will  think  of  questioning,  writes  to  us  as 
follows  : 

"  Le  lieu  de  la  sepulture  actuelle  de  Cortes  est  cnveloppe  de  mys- 
tere.  D.  Lucas  Alaman  a  raconte  I'histoire  des  restes  de  ce  grand 
homme.  Sans  le  dire  positivement,  il  fait  entendre  qu'ils  sont  passes 
en  Italic :  '  El  Conde  D.  Fernando  Lucchesi,  que  cstaba  en  Mexico 
(1823)  como  apoderado  del  sefior  duque  de  Terranova,  dispuso  de  la 
caja  con  los  huesos,  que  provisionalmente  se  deposito  bajo  la  tarima  del 
altar  de  Jesus.'  On  croit  generalement  que  le  corps  de  Cortes  est  a 
Palerme.  Mais  plusieurs  personncs  s'obstinent  a  dire  qu'il  est 
encore  Mexico,  cache  dans  quelque  endroit  completement  ignore. 
Malgre  I'amitie  dont  M.  Alaman  m'honorait,  je  nc  pus  jamais  obtenir 
de  lui  une  declaration  explicite  sur  ce  fait ;  il  trouvait  toujours 
moyen  d'en  detourner  la  conversation." 


print;  and  the  curious  correspondence  in 
V Intermediaire,  for  April,  1864. 

"'  Examen   Crili<jue,  Vol.  iv,  p.  15,  n. 

'"  yoyageurs  anciens  It  modernes  f  Paris, 
8vo,  1861,  Vol.  Ill  (an  excellent  work). 

'"  "  The  male  line  of  the  marquesses 
of  the  Valley  J)ecame  extinct  in  the 
fourth  generaticn.     The  title  and  estates 


descended  to  a  female,  and  by  her  mar- 
riage were  united  with  those  of  the  house 
of  Terranova,  descendants  of  the  '  Great 
Captain,'  Gonsalvo  de  Cordova.  By  a 
subsequent  marriage  they  were  carried  into 
the  family  of  the  Duke  of  Monteleone,  a 
Neapolitan  noble."  Prescott,  he.  cit., 
p.  352. 


ti 
c: 


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Bibliotheca  Americana.  all 

Direct  rtftrenctt  t  (  MiusiL,    Bibliot/itca  Historica,  Vol.  in,  Part  i,  page  167.  I  C  2  2 

•j    Ternaux,  Bihliolheque  ylmiricaine.  No.  25.  ■  ^  ' 

I    BihlUtheca  Heheriana,  Part  vi,  No.  1307.  ^a-^as— e^ 

Bihlhlieca  Grtnvilliana,  page  165, 
Bihiiotheca  Bro-wniana,  page  II,  No.  34. 
Sieveni'  American  Bihliografher,  page  83. 
Livres  Curieux,  page  16,  No.  115. 
Brunet,  Vol.  II,  col.  310. 
Ebert,  Dictionary,  No.  5313. 

Graesse,  Vol.  II,  page  177  (tor  the  erroneoui  ttatement  that  the 
work  contains  only  fourteen  leaves). 


119.    ANONrmouS— Within  an  engraved  border: 

Noue  de  le  Ifole  &  Terra  fer||ma  Nou- 
amente  trouate  ||  In  India  per  el  Capi  || 
taneo  de  larmata  de  la  Cefarea  ||  Maief- 
tate.  II 

Colophon  : 

C  Cautum  eft  a  principe  ne  quis  preter 
Caluum  intra  annum  ||  Imprimat  :  sub 
pena  ducatorum  centum.  || 

rerso  of  the  title-page : 

Andrea    caluo    ad    Paulo    uerrano  ||  & 

Abramo  Taflio/  || 

Mediolani  decimofexto  cale.      Decembris 
M.D.XXII.* 

***  4to»  title  one  leaf  4.  five  unnumbered  leaves,  the  verso  of  the 
last  of  which  is  blank. 

(British  Museum.) 

Brief  abstract  of  Cortes'  second  account  (No.  ii8). 

Direct  reference  :  Bibliotheca  Grtnvilliana,  page  i(t(t. 


Anglice:  News  of  the  Islands  and  Con-  no  one  except  Calvo  may  print  this  wirb- 

tineni  recently  discovered  in  India  by  the  in  a  year,  under  penalty  of  one  hundred 

captain  of  the  fleet  of  His  Imperial  Ma-  ducats.    Milan,  l6th  Ifalend.    December, 

jesty.     It  is  cautioned  by  the  Prince  that  ijia. 


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1  e  2  3 1  I  2 O.     COR  TES  (FERNANDO)—  Under  a  woodcut  represtnlir.g  tht 

Emperor  Charles  V  seated  on  the  throne,  and  surrounded  by  his  Court : 


Carta  lie  K(Umn  tm- 
bialta  a  ^n 


S>.  maicftatj  ticl  lEmperatior 
ttueftro  fcftot  pot  t\  (ffapltan 
general  II  tjelanucua  iSfpafta:  Uamatio  ,lf  eruantio 
cortes.  iSnla  qual  fa^e  re- 1|  lacio  tielag  tierrass  g 
prouineias  fiu  cueto  (jue  ijft  tiefcuijierto  nueua-|| 
mete  enel  l^ucata  Tiel  afio  tie.  xxx.  a  efta  parte :  b  i)a 
fometitio  ala  eoro  ||  na  real  Tje  fu.  3.  majeftatr.  iSn 
efpedal  fa^  relacion  tie  bna  gratiiffi-  jj  ma  puincia 
mug  rica  llamatia  (ffulua :  enla  ql  as  mug  graties 
eiutia-llties  b  tie  marauillofois  etiificios:  jj  tie  gratieis 
trato»  B  ritiue^as.  iEntre  ||  las  qles  ag  bna  ma« 
marauillofa  g  rica  q  totias  llamatia  ^Temixtita :  II  q 
eftapor  marauillofa  arte  etiitiicatia  fobre  bna  grantie 
laguna :  tiela  ||  til  ciutiati  g  proulcia  es  reij  bn  gras 
tiiffimo  fenor  llamatio  flfluteecu- 1|  ma :  tietie  le 
aeaefciero  al  capita  g  alos  iSfpafioless  efplitofas 
cofas  tie  II  ogr.  (JTucnta  largamente  tiel  gratiiffimo 
feftorio  tiel  tiicljo  iifluteecu  II  ma  g  tie  Sm  rito^f  g 
eerimoniasj :  g  tie  como  fe  firue.  || 

Colophon  : 

€  Ea  prefente  carta  tie  relacion  fue  impreffa  ens 
la  mug  noble  II  r  mug  leal  ciutiati  tie  Otaragopa: 
por  (©eorge  (toti  aicman.  II  a.  b.  tiias  tie  ISnero. 
i^fto  tie  iHil.ti.g.xxiii.* 


*  Anglici  :    This    Eoistolary   Relation     of  Saragossa,  by  George  Coci,  a  German, 
was  printed  in  the  very  noble  and  loyal  city     Jan.  5th,  1523.     The  rest  as  in  No.  118. 


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***  Folio,   twenty-eight  unnumbered  leaves,  including  the  title,     I  C2'l, 


-  .'         ^'    .  ,      »    ■■•-■"-■••6    w.^    iii.v,. 

Which  contains  on  the  verso  another  woodcut,  representing  the 
setting  out  of  Cortes,  followed  by  the  beginning  of  the  text. 

(B.) 


(Private  Library,  Providence.) 


Second  edition  of  A  (No.  ii8). 


Direct  reftrenceti  (  Bibliotheca  Heieriana,  Part  vii,  No.  1884. 
Bihliiiheca  Grenvilliana,  page  166. 
Bihliolheca  Browniana,  page   11,  No.  36. 
Stevens''  American  Bibliographer,  page  84. 
Ternai  X,  No,  27. 
Brunit,  Vol.  II,  col.  311. 


121.   CORTES  ( FERNANDO)-  Under  the  same  xeoodcut  as  in  No.  1 1 8. 

^  Carta  Uxuva  >f  u- 
\nm :  ^mbt(t^(l  pur  /^ rna  ii 

tjo  cortes  capitan  r  iufticia  maijor  trel  guratan  Has 
tnatio  la  nueua  cfpafia||trel  mar  occano:  al  mug 
alto  ij  potentimmo  cefar  x  lulctimmo  fenor  tia  || 
OTarlos  emprralror  fnnpcr  augufto  jj  reg  tre  efpafta 
nueftro  fenor:  trclasllcofas  fucetiHaS  x  mug  tiignas 
liE  atrmiracion  rnla  rouquifta  g  recupe- 1|  racion  tiela 
mug  grantie  r  marauillofa  ciutran  He  Cemixtitan : 
8  trelas  ||  otrasi  prouinrias  a  dla  futjetag  pr  St 
rcklaron.  iEnla  qual  dutratr  x  tii  llrijas  prouincias 
el  tiicijo  capitan  jj  cfpanoles  ronfiguieron  srantcs 
8  it  II  nalatras  bictorias  tripas  tre  pcrpctua  mcs 
moria.  am  mefmo  ijair  rela-llcion  como  Ija  tiefcu= 
tierto  rl  mar  tiel  5>ur :  x  otras  mucfjas  r  gratres 
pro-  II  uincias;  mug  ricas  tre  minas  tie  oro :  g  per= 
lass :  g  pleurals  preciofas :  x  abn  ||  tienen  notlcfa  que 
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I  C  2  3 .        Colophon  : 

=—  €  Ea  jifente  carta  5  relacio  fue  impteffa  Ha  mug 
noijle  X  muB  leal  clutrati  19  feuilla  por  ||  Jacobo  cto= 
betger  alema :  acaijofe  a.  xxx,  triast  tre  mar^o :  afto 
^  mill  r  quinietofii  r.  xxiij.  II* 

*  *  Folio  (signatures  a,  b,  c,  in  eights,  d  in  six)  ;  thirty  unnum- 
bered leaves,  including  the  title,  on  the  verso  of  which  the 
text  begins ;  forty-eight  lines  in  a  full  page. 

f  L-'.j  (Private  Libr.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

Third  account,   from   October  30th,   1520,  to  May 
15th,  1522. 

Direct  reference:  |   Meusel,  B-bliotheca  Ui-torica,  Vol.  in,  Part  i,  page  268. 
I    Panzer,  Mnvales  J  ipi^fr.,  Vol.  vii,  page  122,  No.  19. 
I    Bihiiothcta  Heberiana.Pin  vii,  No.  1884 

BibliolKua  Grenvil/iana,  page  166. 

Bibliotheca  Bioivniana,  page   12,  No.  35. 

Stevens'  American  Bibliographer,  page  84. 

Li-vres  Curieux,  page  27,  No.  127. 

Rich,  No.  5. 

Ternaux,  No.  26. 

Brunet,  Vol.  II,  col.  311. 


12  2.    MAXIMILIAN  OF  TRANSYLyANIA—Within   an   orna- 
mented border  containing  nude  figures  : 

DE  MOLVCcis  in||/«//j,  itemq ;  alijs  pluribus  miradis, 
qua  II  nouijftma  Cajiellanorum  nauigatio  Se-  \\  renijs.  Im- 
peratoris  Caroli  .  V  .  aufpicis  \\  Jufcepta,  nuper  inuenit  : 
Maximiliani  \\  Tranfyluani  ad  Reuerendijs.  Cardina-  \\  lem 
Saltzburgenfem  epijiola  leEtu  per- 1|  quam  iucunda.  \\ 


*  Anglic'e:  Third  Epistolary  Relation 
sent  by  Fernando  Cortes,  Captain  and 
Chief  Justice  of  Yucatan,  called  New 
Spain  of  the  Oceanic  Sea,  to  the  most 
high  and  mighty  Caesar  and  invincible 
Lord  Don  Charles,  Emperor  ever  august, 
and  King  of  Spain  our  Lord,  concerning 
the  things  which  have  happened  and  are 
worthy    of   admiration    in   the   conquest 


and  recovery  of  the  very  great  and  won- 
drous city  of  Temixtitan;  and  of  the  other 
provinces  subjected  to  it  which  had  re- 
volted. In  which  city  and  said  provinces 
the  said  captain  and  Spaniards  obtained 
great  and  signal  victories  worthy  of  per- 
petual remembrance.  There  is  also  an 
account  how  he  discovered  the  South  Sea, 
and  many  other  and  large  provinces,  very 


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Ferso  of  the  last  leaf: 

Datum  Vallijoleti  die  XXIIII  OEiobris  M.D.XXII. 
Colonia  in   adibus   Eucharii   Ceruicorni.      Anno   «/r-|| 
ginei  partus  .  M .  D  .  XXI IT .  menfe  \\  lanuario.* 

^*^  Sm.  8vo,  title  one  leaf-f  fifteen  unnumbered  leaves;  text  be- 
gins on  the  verso  of  the  title-page.  In  the  border,  under 
nude  figures,  •/dpire^  (/.  e.,  the  Graces). 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

Our  readers  are  doubtless  familiar  with  the  eventful 
life  of  Fernando  de  Magalhaes,  Magalhanes,  Maga- 
glianes  or  Magailanes,  usually  called  Magellan.  Born 
either  at  Porto',  Lisbon^  Villa  de  Sabrosa^  or  at  Villa 
de  Figuiero*,  of  an  aristocratic  family,  date  unknown, 
this  great  navigator,  when  yet  young,  joined  the  expe- 
dition of  Francisco  de  Almeida  to  Quiloa  in  1505",  and 
afterwards  that  of  Albuquerque  against  Malacca.  He 
then  fought  in  Africa,  where  he  received  a  wound  in  the 
knee,  which  rendered  him  lame  for  the  rest  of  his  life. 
His  knowledge  of  the  Moluccas  was  derived  from  a 
sojourn  of  five^  or  seven^  years  in  the  East  Indies. 

When  Magellan  returned  to  Lisbon,  he  gained  access 
to  the  archives  of  the  crown,  and  ascertained  that  the 
Moluccas  were  situated  within  the  hemisphere  allotted 


rich  in  gold  mines,  pearls  and  precious 
stones;  and  contains  also  a  notice  to  the 
effect  that  there  are  spices. 

The  present  Epistolary  Account  was 
printed  in  the  very  noble  and  loyal  city  of 
Seville,  by  Jacob  Cromberger,  a  German. 
Finished,  March  30th,  1523. 

*  yJngtki  :  An  epistle  of  pleasant  read- 
ing, by  Maximilian  of  Transylvania  to  the 
most  reverend  Cardinal  of  Salzburg,  con- 
cerning the  Molucca  Islands,  and  some 
other  wonderful  things,  which  have  re- 
cently been  discovered  during  the  latest 
voyage  of  the  Spaniards,  undertaken  under 
the  auspices  of  the  most  Serene  Emperor 
Ch,i,lesV. 

Cologne,  in  the  establishment  of  Eu- 
chariua  Cervicornus,  January,  A.  D.  1523. 


'  Argensola,  Conquiua  de  las  is/as  Ma- 
/ucas;  Madrid,  fol.,  1609,  lib.  I,  p.  6 ; 
jlnales  de  Aragon,  lib.  i,  cap.  13,  p.  133. 

^  A.  DE  San  Roman,  Hhtoria  gen.  de 
la  India  Orient.,  lib.  2,  cap.  25,  p.  341. 

'  Private  documents  furnished  M.  Denis, 
in  Charton,  l^oyageurs  ancient  et  modernes, 
Vol.  Ill,  p.  424. 

*  Nobiliario  da  Caza  do  Cazal,  MS.,  in 
Nowv.  Biogr.  Gincrale,  Vol.  32,  p.  672. 

°  Faria  y  SouzA,  Asia  Poriugueza, 
Vol.  I,  Part  I,  cip.  8 ;  M.  de  la  Puente, 
Compendia  de  ias  Hislorias  de  hs  Descubri- 
mienfosf  Madrid,  fol.,  1681, lib.  in,  p.  151. 

'  Peter  Martvr,  Opus  efist.,  epist. 
767. 

'  Gomara,  Hhtoria  de  las  Indias,  cap. 
91,  p.  83. 


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I  C23.  to  Spain  by  the  famous  Bull  of  Demarcation*.  Vain', 
s_9ss=.  or  perhaps  simply  conscious  of  his  superiority  (a  legiti- 
mate feeling,  which  superficial  observers  are  apt  to  mis- 
take for  vanity '>,  Magellan  resented  the  unjust  treat- 
ment which  he  had  received  at  the  hands  of  the  king, 
irj  consequence  of  complaints  urged  by  the  inhabitants 
of  Azamor  against  the  officers  in  command  at  the  time 
of  the  campaign  in  Africa'".  He  therefore  determined 
to  remove  to  Spain,  and,  in  company  with  the  two 
Faleiros  (Ruy"  and  Francisco)  and  Christovam  de 
Haro",  left  Portugal ;  and,  for  a  good  cause,  as  it 
seems",  openly  renounced  allegiance  to  his  native  coun- 
try. In  October,  15 17,  or  15 18'*,  he  offered  his  services 
to  Charles  V.  Informed,  perhaps,  by  de  Haro",  of  the 
existence  of  the  Southern  Straits,  or  having  derived  his 
information  from  a  supposed  map  of  Martin  Behaim'*, 
or,  more  probably,  sharing  the  opinion,  conjecture,  or 
hope,  entertained  by  all  navigators'^  at  the  time,  he  pro- 


'  See  supra,  p.  10,  note  70.  There  is 
a  quaint  French  translation,  abridged,  of 
this  Papal  Bull  in  Lib.  II  of  La  Popelli- 
NiERt,  Lei  trail  Mondes;  Paris,  8vo,  1582, 
map.  It  is  also  inserted  in  the  continua- 
tion of  Baronius'  AnnaUs  by  Bzovius ; 
Rome,  fol.,  1652,  Vol.  xix. 

'  Maffei,  Hhtoriarum  indicarum ;  Co- 
logne, fol.,  1589,  Lib.  vill. 

'"  Barros,  Deradas  da  Asia,  Decad.  11, 
lib.  II,  cap.  19;  Decad.  in,  lib.  5,  cap.  8; 
OsoRio,  The  History  of  the  Portuguese  dur- 
ing the  reign  of  Emanuel,  translated  by  J. 
Gibbs;  London,  8vo,  1752,  Book  ix. 

"  This  unfortunate  Ruy  Faleiro,  who 
perhaps  originated  the  project  and  supplied 
Magellan  with  four  methods  to  determine 
the  longitude,  which  were  suggested  to 
him  by  a  "  Demonio  familiar"  was  refused 
a  command,  notwithstanding  the  conven- 
tion of  Valladolid,  and  soon  afterwards 
became  insane.  It  was  his  brother  Fran- 
cisco who  wrote  the  rarissime  Tratado  de 
la  Esfera,  ascribed  to  Ruy  by  Humboldt 
[Cosmos,  Vol.  II,  p.  672,  note),  and  sup- 
posed by  Leon  Pinelo  {Epitome,  p.  143), 
and  Antonio  {Bih.  H.  Nova,  Vol.  i,  p. 
423),  to  have  been  printed  at  Seville,  in 


1535.  (See,  concerning  Ruy  Faleiro  or 
Falero,  Oviedo,  Hist.  gen.  de  las  Indias, 
Lib.  XX,  cap.  i  ;  Hekrera,  loc.  cit.,  Dec. 
II,  lib.  II,  cap.  19,  p.  52;  Argensola, 
Anales  de  Aragon,  lib.  I,  p.  740  j  Navar- 
RETE,  Disertacion,  p.  148,  and  Coleccion, 
—  Pruebas,  No.  XI,  p.  I.XXVII,  Vol.  iv.) 

"  See  supra,  p.  173,  note  3. 

"  Faria  V  SouzA,  Comentarios  a  la  Lu- 
siada  de  Camoes  i  Madrid,  fol.,  1639,  55th 
canto,  cited  by  Nav.-'.rrete,  in"  his  excellent 
introduction  to  the  documents  concerning 
Magellan,  in  his  Coleccion,  Vol.  IV. 

"  Herrera,  /oc.  cit. 

'°  See  supra,  p.  175. 

"  "  II  capitano  generale  che  sapeva  de 
dover  fare  la  sua  navigazlone  per  un  streto 
motto  ascoso,  coma  vite  ne  la  thesoriaria 
del  re  de  Portugal  in  una  carta  fata  per 
quello  excelentissimo  huomo  Martin  de 
Boemia,  mendo  due  navi,  &c."  Piga- 
FETTA  (Amoretti's  edit.  p.  36);  see  also 
Chauveton,  supra,  p.  38,  note  2 ;  Ramu- 
sio.  Vol.  I,  fol.,  354,  and  de  Murr,  Hist. 
Diplomat.,  where  all  assertions  concerning 
the  claims  of  Behaim  are  discussed, 

"  As  early  as  1 501,  Vespuccius  pro- 
posed  to    double    the   extremity  of   the 


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posed  to  the  Emperor  to  reach  the  Moluccas  by  a  new  and  I  C  2  '2 . 
shorter  route'^  and  informed  him  of  his  rights  to  those 
islands.  Notwithstaliding  the  remonstrances  of  Alvaro 
da  Costa,  the  Portuguese  Embassador,  and  threats  to 
murder  Magellan",  Charles  V  signed,  at  Valladolid, 
March  22d",  1518,  the  stipulation  whereby  Magellan 
was  at  last  enabled  to  sail,  on  the  morning  of  Monday, 
August  I  oth,  1 5 1 9,  from  San  Lucar  de  Barrameda.  The 
fleet  was  composed  of  the  Trinidad  (flag-ship),  the  San  An- 
tonio, the  Concepcion,  the  Santiago  and  the  famous  Victoria. 
Estavam  Gomez"  also  joined  the  expedition,  but  returned 
to  Seville,  May  6th,  1521,  without  having  witnessed 
the  accomplishment  of  this  great  undertaking.  The 
expedition  consisted,  in  all,  of  two  hundred  and  sixty-five 
individuals,  whose  names  have  been  preserved.  Among 
them  we  notice  a  native  of  Bristol,  "  Maestre  Andres 
Condestable."  The  fleet  sailed  by  the  Canaries  and 
Cape  de  Verde,  reaching,  December  13th,  1519,  what 
is  now  called  Rio  de  Janeiro.  After  great  delays,  and 
several  revolts,  all  much  more  authentic  and  bloody 
than  those  ascribed  to  the  crews  on  board  Columbus' 
vessel",  Magellan  doubled,  October  i8th,  1520,  the 
cape  of  Las  Firgines,  issuing  out  of  the  Strait,  on  the 


Southern  Hemisphere;  and  in  November, 
1514,  orders  were  given  to  Pedrarias  Davila 
and  Juan  Diaz  de  Solis  to  fit  out  an  expe- 
dition with  the  view  of  finding  an  opening : 
"  abertura  de  la  tierra."  See  Documents 
in  Navarrete,  Vol.  iii,  pp.  134  and  357J 
Lelewel,  Ghgr.  du  Moyen-Age,  Vol.  11, 
p.  164,  note  336;  Humboldt,  Examen 
Critique,  Vol.  i,  pp.  320  and  350,  Vol.  11, 
p.  19;  Cosmos,  Vol.  n,  p.  646,  note. 

"   Oviedo,  lac.  cit..  Lib.  xx,  cap.  1. 

"  Faria  y  Souza,  Europa  porlugucsa  ; 
Lisbon,  3  vols.,  8vo,  1678-80,  Vol.  11, 
Part  II,  cap.  i,  p.  543. 

"  Navarrete,  CoUccion,  Vol.  iv.  Doc. 
III. 

"  This  astute  Portuguese  navigator  was 
afterwards  sent  by  Charles  V.  in  search  of 
»  north-west  passage,  and  in  1524  fol- 
lowed our  coasts  from  Florida  to  Rhode 


Island,  and  perhaps  as  far  north  as  Cape 
Cod.  A  well-known  writer  on  the  history 
of  the  United  States,  whose  fawning  work 
it  is  fashionable  to  purchase,  but  impossible 
to  read  through,  is  of  opinion  that  there  is 
in  existence  a  printed  account  by  Gomez 
himself,  of  his  curious  voyage.  It  is  scarcely 
necessary  to  say  that  such  an  account  does 
not  exist.  (See,  concerning  Gomez,  Bar- 
BosA  Machado,  Bibliotheca  Lusiiana,  Vol. 
H,  p.  669  ;  Navarrete,  Coleccion,  Vol.  iv, 
Prueha  xiv;  and  especially  Diego  Ribero's 
map  in  K.oViVs  Altesten  General- Karten  von 
Amerika  ausgef.  in  d.  y.  1527-1529,  auf 
Befchl  K.  Karl's  V,  where,  under  the 
designation  of  tierras  de  Estavam  Gomez, 
his  route  coastwise  may  be  traced.  "Many 
codfish  and  no  gold,"  says  the  inscription.) 
'"  Maxim.  Transvlv,,  Epist.  in  Novut 
Orbis  of  1537,  p.  591. 


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I  ^23.  Pacific  side,  after  twenty-two  days*',  or  on  November 
gs9==----  27th,  and  commenced  sailing  on  that  noble  sea,  which 
he  himself  named  Oceano  Pacifico''*.  We  scarcely  need 
remind  our  readers  that  the  eastern  portion  of  the 
Pacific  had  been  already  navigated,  but  farther  north, 
as  early  as  15 13,  by  Alonso  Martin  de  Don  Benito. 

Taking  possession  of  several  islands,  where  he  com- 
mitted a  series  of  political  blunders,  Magellan  engaged 
in  a  war  with  the  natives  of  the  small  island  of  Matan 
(one  of  the  Philippines),  where  he  was  killed,  Saturday, 
April  27th,  1 52 1.  The  Victoria,  under  the  command 
of  MigueP'  or  Juan  Sebastian  Del  Cano,  was  the  only 
vessel  which,  of  those  that  had  crossed  the  Straits, 
returned  safely  to  Spain*^;  landing  at  Seville  Monday, 
September  8th,  1522,  with  a  crew  of  eighteen  men  all 
told,  but  entitled  to  the  honor  of  having  first  circum- 
navigated th.;    -orld. 

As  the  fact  that  the  Strait  bears  the  name  of  its  first 
explorer  might  lead  some  critics  to  infer  that  Magellan 
originated  this  appellation,  we  must  say  that  he  only 
called  it  Estrecho  Patagonico,  and  afterwards  Estrecho  de 
la  Victoria^''. 

The  account,  journal,  or  ephemerides  which,  accord- 
ing to  Antonio^^  and  Barbosa*',  was  written  by  Magellan, 
and  which  seems  to  have  been  in  existence  as  late  as 
1783,  are  lost.  Barros  has  preserved'"  the  instructions 
which  he  gave  to  his  several  captains  when  in  the 
channel  of  Todos  los  Santos,  November  21st,  1520 
(1521  ?)  We  possess  also  his  will  and  several  memo- 
rials, all  written  before  his  departure.  As  to  the  De- 
scripcion  de  los  reinos,  castas,  puertas  y  islas  que  hay  en  el 


''  "  26  Nouebris" — Maxim. Transylv., 
Epist.  in  Novus  Orhis  of  1537,  p.  591. 

"    PlGAFETTA,  !oC.  cit. 

"  Maxim.  Transylv.,  loc.  cit. 

'°  See  the  passage  in  the  curious  letter 
of  Fernando  Carli  :  "  che  appena  e  un 
anno  tornh  [the  letter  is  dated  August  4th, 
1524]  Fernando  Magaghiana,  quale  disco- 
perse  grande  paese  con  una  nave  mello 
delle  cinque  a  discoprire.     Donde  adduse 


garofani  molto  piu  eccelenti  delli  soliti;  e 
le  altre  sue  nave  in  5  anni  mai  nuova  ci  e 
trapelata.  Stimansi  perse." — Anhivo  Sto- 
rico  Iialiano;  Florence,  1842-1857,  Ap- 
pendix, Vol.  IX. 

"   PiGAFETTA,  loc.  cit. 

"  Bih!.  H.  Nova,  Vol.  11,  p.  379. 
"  Bibliotheca  Lusitana,  Vol.  11,  p.  31. 
'"  Uc  cit.,  Dec.  Ill,  lib.  5,  c.  9,  published 
in  Spanish  by  Navarirte,  /oc.  cit.,  45-49. 


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mar  de  la  India  oriental^  discovered  by  Navarrete  in  1793, 
it  is  not  considered  authentic.  The  account  written  . 
by  Peter  Martyr  in  1522";  the  Z)<?/  Descubrimiento  del 
Estrecho  de  Magellan^  of  Andres  de  San  Martin",  con- 
sulted by  Herrera;  Oviedo's  scp&r&te  Historia  del  Estre- 
cho" {Hist.  Gen.  Lib.  xx  ?),  and  the  narration  of  Leon 
Pancaldo  de  Saona,  the  pilot  of  the  Victoria^*,  are  also  lost. 
The  narrations  which  we  possess  are : 

1.  Pigafetta's  Primo  Viaggio  intorno  al  globo  terra- 
queo,  long  known  only  through  Fabre's  garbled  version 
in  French,  published  at  Paris  in  or  about  1 525  {infra),  and 
first  published  in  full  from  an  Italian  MS.  by  Amoretti". 

2.  Bautista's  Roteiro  da  Viagem  de  Fernam  de  Magal- 
haes.  This  Bautista  was  a  Genoese  pilot  who  accom- 
panied Magellan.  His  account,  the  original  of  which 
is  in  the  Imperial  Library  at  Paris,  was  published  for 
the  first  time  in  1831"'. 

3.  DuARTE  Barbosa's  Sommario  di  tvtti  il  regni,  citth 
e  populi  deir  Indie  orientali,  as  we  find  it  in  Ramusio  is 
only  a  description  of  the  countries  visited  by  Magellan. 
But  in  1 8 12  a  manuscript  was  found  in  Lisbon,  and 
published  the  year  following  by  the  Portuguese  Academy 
of  Sciences",  which,  under  the  title  of  Livro  emque  da 
relacho  do  que  viu  e  ouviu  no  oriente,  gives  the  original 
text  of  Barbosa,  and,  to  a  certain  extent,  an  account  of 
Magellan's  ''oyage.  Duarte  Barbosa  was  his  brother- 
in-law,  and  died  by  his  side  at  Matan. 

4.  Francisco  Albo's  Diario  6  derrotero  del  viage  de 
Magallanes  desde  el  cabo  de  San  Agustin  en  el  Brasil,  hasta 
el  regreso  a  Espana  de  la  nao  Victoria,  in  Navarrete'l 

5.  Antonio  Brito's  letter  to  the  King  of  Portugal, 
found  in  the  archives  of  the  Torre  de  Tombo  by 
Munoz,  and  also  published  by  Navarrete". 


"  opus,  tpist.,  Epist.  797,  and  Ramu- 
sio, Vol.  I,  p.  347,  introd. 

"  Antonio,  B.  H.  Nova,  Vol.  i,  p.  79. 

"  L.  PiNELo,  p.  92;  Antonio,  I,  p.  555. 

"  Mr,  Denis  cites  for  this  unknown 
account ;  Oldoino,  Athtnio  Liguttica. 


"  Milan,  4to,  1800,  maps. 
"  Noticias  para  a   historia  e  geograjia 
da!  napes  ullramarinasf  Lisbon,  410. 
"  Idem  opus. 

*'  Coleccion,  Vol.  iv,  pp.  209-247. 
"  loc.  cit.,  pp.  305-312. 


1523- 


230 


Bibliotheea  Americana, 


I  C23.  6.  The  present  account  by  Maximilian  of  Transyl- 
"*"'*  Charles  V's  secretary*",  written  in  the  form  of  an 
epistle  addressed  to  the  Abp.  of  Salzburg,  and  dated 
Valladolid,  October  24th,  1522.  Of  this,  we  describe, 
de  visUy  the  following  editions  : 

The  present  No.  122,  which  seems  to  be  the  princeps; 
the   Rome   edition   of  November,    1523    (infra);    and 
and  another  Roman  reprint,  dated  February,  1514  (in- 
fra).    We  vouch  for  no  other*'. 
•  Maximilian's  epistle  was  inserted  in  the  two  editions 

of  the  Novus  Orbis  dated  respectively  1537**  and 
1555*'.  There  is  an  Italian  translation  in  Ramusio**. 
Navarette  published  in  his  Coleccion*^  a  Spanish  version, 
apparently  copied  from  a  manuscript  in  the  Library  of 
the  Royal  Academy  of  History,  Madrid.  This,  in- 
stead of  being  dated  Oct.  24th,  bears  the  date  "  a  cinco 
de  Octubre;"  and  contains  a  short  introduction,  prob- 
ably by  the  translator,  from  which  we  extract  the  follow- 
ing curious  lines :  "  la  cual  [una  largo  relacion  en 
lengua  latina],  dirigio  al  cardinal  Salpurgense  obispo  de 
Cartagena." 

It  is  scarcely  necessary  to  remind  the  reader  that  the 
account  of  Magellan's  voyage,  as  given  by  Hulsius*^, 
is  only  an  extract  from  Ortelius'  Theatrum  Orbis  and 
Chauveton's  Discours. 


Direct  refertmti : 


Panzer,  Annalti  Typogr.,  Vol.  vi,  page  388,  No.  375. 

La  Valliere  Catalogue,  Vol.  v,  page  35. 

Bibliotheea  Heberiana,  Part  i,  No.  4451,  and  Part  11,  No.  3687. 

Bibliotheea  Grenvilliana,  page  454. 

Bibliotheea  Browniana,  page  12,  No.  38. 

Historical  Nuggets,  No.  1868. 

Ternaux,  No.  30.  « 

Brunet,  Vol.  ;ii,  col.  1550. 

Graesse,  Vol.  IV,  page  452. 


*•  "  Genero  di  Cristoforo  de  Haro," 
Amoretti,  p.  XXXVIII. 

•'  The  No.  142  of  Liiires  Curieux, 
"  Vallisoleti,  28  Oct.  1522  (et  pas  Co- 
lonix,  1523)."  must  be  viewed  only  in  the 
light  of  an  indication  directed  to  book- 
sellers, and  based  upon  the  date  in  the  text 
of  the  Cologne  edition.  As  to  the  Pinelli- 
Panzer-Libri   edition  dated    1533,   it   is 


identical  with  the  present  number,  with 
the  exception  of  an  x  inadvertently  added 
by  the  printer  to  the  colophon. 

*'  pp.  585-600. 

"  pp.  524-38- 

**  Raceolta,  Vol.  I,  pp.  347-3  5X. 

"  Vol.  IV,  pp.  249-285. 

**  Sammlung  von  Sechj  und  Zwanzig 
Sciiffahrlen;  P.  vi,  Nuremberg,  4to,  1603. 


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231 


I  23*     MAXIMILIAN  of' TRANSriyANIA— Within   a   highly     I  523. 
trnamented  border  :  ___^_^^_ 


Maximiliani  Tranfyluani  CaefarisHa  fe- 
cretis  Epiftola,  de  admirabili  ||  &  nouiflima 
Hifpanoru  in  Orien  ||  tern  nauigatione,  qua 
uariae,  &  nul  ||  li  prius  accelTae  Regiones  inu- 
etaellfunt,  cum  ipfis  etia  Moluccis  infuHlis 
beatiflimis,  optimo  Aroniatu||genere  refer- 
tis.  Inauditi  quoq.  in  ||  cola^  mores  expo- 
nuntur,  ac  mul  ||  ta  quae  Herodotus,  Plinms, 
Soli/||nus  atque  al""  tradiderunt,  fabulo||fa 
^^^  arguunt.  Contra  nonnulla  ||  ibide  I| 
uera,  uix  tamen  credibilia  ex  ||  plicant. 
quibufcum  hiftoriis  Infu  ||  laribus  ambitus 
defcribit  alterius  ||  Hemifphaerii,  qua  ad 
nos  tandem  |i  hifpani  redierunt  incolumes.  || 
ROMA 

Colophon  on  the  recto  of  leaf  fiftei nth  : 
POMAE  II  IN    AEDIBVS  .  F  .  ||  MINITII     CALVI  || 
ANNO  .  M.D.XXIII  II  MENSE    NOVEMBRI.  || 

*^*  Sm.  4to,  title  one  leaf  +  three  preliminary  leaves +^/,f^» 
unnumbered  leaves ;  text  in  Roman  characters.  (The  signa- 
ture Dii  is  wrongly  marked  E  2.) 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

In  this  edition,  the  date,  "Vallifoleti  die  XXIIII 
Octobris  M.D.XXII,"  is  omitted  altogether. 


Direct  riftrences: 


Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  vi,  No.  2331,  and  Part  vii,  No.  4123. 
Bibliotheca  Broioniana,  page  12,  No,  37. 
Ternaux,  No  29. 
Brunet,  Vol.  Ill,  col.  1549. 
Graesse,  Vol.  IV,  pp.  451-a. 


V. 


23a 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


' 


' 


I  C24.  124.      MAXIMILIAN  OF   TRANSTLI^ANIA-lFilbiH   a    highly 

„_  ornamented  border : 

Maximiliani  Tranfyluani  Cjcfaris  ||  a  fe- 
cretis  Epiftola,  de  admirabili  ||  &  nouiflima 
Hifpanoru  in  Orien  ||  tern  nauigatione,  qua 
uariae,  &  nul  II  li  prius  accefTae  Regiones  inu- 
etaellfunt,  cum  iplis  etia  Moluccis  infu||lis 
beatiflimis,  optimo  Aromatu  ||  genere  refer- 
tis.  Inauditi  quoq.  in||cola^  mores  expo- 
nuntur,  ac  mul  ||  ta  quae  Herodotus,  Plinius, 
Soli/||nus  atque  alii  tradiderunt,  fabulo||fa 
efTe  arguunt.  Contra  nonnulla  ||  ibide  || 
uera,  uix  tamen  credibilia  ex  |1  plicant. 
quibufcum  hiftoriis  Infu  ||  laribus  ambitus 
defcribit  alterius  ||  Hemifphaerii,  qua  ad 
nos  tandem  ||  hifpani  redierunt  incolumes.  |1 
ROMA 

Colophon  : 
ROMAE    IN    iEDIBVS  II  F.  MINITII  CALVI II  ANNO 
M.DXXIIII.  II  MENSE  ||  FEB.  || 

*^*  Sm.  4to,  title  one  leaf  +  three  preliminary  leaves  -^fourteen 
unnumbered  leaves ;  text  in  Roman  characters. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

The  present  is  a  literal  copy  of  the  above  No.  123, 
as  far  as  signature  B  ii,  which,  in  this  copy,  ends  with 
"  inuenerint,"  instead  of  "  qua."  The  signature  D  ii 
is  correctly  given. 

Direct  Tcftrtnct  s  Rein*  (of  Milan)  Catalogue,  Paris,  1834-40. 


ii  ■• 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  233 

125.    CO/J  TBS  (FERNANDO)-  Within  a  double  border : 

(Cortefii  tie  |lmia  maris  ©ccau'  l^g  ||  fpania  |lar= 
ratio  ^acratiffimo.  ac  Jnuictiffi- 1|  iik.  C-^rolo 
Romanoru  Imperatori  femper  Augullo, 
Hyfpa  II  niarii,  &  c  Regi  Anno  Domini. 
M.D.XX.  tranfmifTa  :  ||  In  qua  Continen- 
tur  Plurima  fcitu,  &  admiratione  |]  digna 
circa  egregias  earu  puintiaru  Vrbes,  In-  || 
colaru  mores,  pueroru  Sacrificia,  &  Reli- 
giofas  II  perfonas,  PotifTimucj  de  Celebri 
Ciuitate  ||  Temixtitan  Variifcp  illi9  mari- 
bilib9,  qu^  ||  legete  mirifice  deledabut.  ||  p 
Dodore  ||  Petru  faguorgnanu  \_sic\  Foro 
lulienfe  ||  Reuen.  D.  loan,  de  Reuelles  || 
Epifco.  Vienefis  Sacretariu  ||  ex  Hyfpano 
Idi  II  ornate  in  latiijnu  verfa||ANNO  Dni. 
M.D.XXIIII.  KL.  Martii :  ||  Cum  gratia, 
&  Priuilegio.  [j 

Colophon : 

C  Explicit  fecunda  Ferdinandi  Cortefii 
Narratio  per  Doc  ||  torem  Petrum  Sauor- 
gnanum  Foro  lulienfem  ex  Hy- 1|  fpano 
Idiomate  in  latinum  Conuerfa.  Im-  || 
prefla  in  Celebri  Ciuitate  Norimberga.  || 
Couentui  Imperiali  pr^fidente  Sere-  ||  nif- 
fimo    Ferdinando    Hyfpaniaru    Infate,    & 

30 


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134  Bibliotheca   Americana. 

1524.  Archiduce  Auftriae  ||  Sac :    Ro.  Imp:    Lo- 
cut.  II  Generali  II  Anno.  Dfii  M.D.XXIIII : 

Quar.  No.  Mar.  ||  Per  Fridericum  Peypus.|| 

Arthimefius.il* 

Recto  of  the  fifty-fifth  leaf: 

De  Rebus,  et  Infulis  nouiter  Repertis  || 
a  Serenifs.  Carolo  Imperatore  ||  Et  Variis 
earum  genti-  ||  um  moribus.  || 

•^*  Folio,  four  preliminary  leaves,  including  the  title,  then  text 
in  XLix  leaves,  followed  by  Peypus'  mark,  -\-  twelve  numbered 
leaves  for  the  De  Rebus  et  Insults.  Plan  of  Mexico,  on  a 
large  folded  leaf,  which  contains  an  inscription,  in  five  lines, 
below  the  scale,  not  to  be  found  in  the  facsimile  published 
in  the  American  Bibliographer.  Marginal  notes  in  black 
letter,  text  in  Roman.  (In  one  of  the  copies  which  we 
have  examined,  the  verSo  of  the  fourth  "preliminary  leaf  con- 
tains, within  a  medallion, *a  large  woodcut  portrait  of  Pope 
Clement  VII,  with  the  scriptural  citation :  "  Super  Aspi- 
dem'  et  basiliscum  ambulabis.") 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York,  Providence  and  Washington  city.) 


Diritt  rtftrincti  1 


Maittaire,  AnnaUs  Typogr.,  Vol.  11,  page  651. 

Panzer,  AnnaUs  Typogr.,  Vol.  vii,  page  466. 

McusiL,  Bibliotheca  Historica,  Vol.  in,  Part  I,  page  169. 

Ternaux,  No.  32  (describes  the  above  as  being  sine  anno  autloco). 

Brunet,  Vol.  II,  col.  312. 

Ebert,  Dictionary,  No.  5324.  ' 

Bibliolheca  TAolliana,  Vol.  vii,  page  105. 

Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  vi.  No.  241  j,  and  Part  ix,  No.  910. 

Bibliotheca  Grenvilliana,  page  166. 

Bibliotheca  Browniana,  page  13,  No.  42. 

Stevens'  American  Bibliographer,  page  86. 

Solar  Catalogue,  No.  2491,  with  portrait  of  Clement. 

Butsch  Catalogue,  page  23,  No.  344. 


*  Anglice:  The  famous  narration  of  Fer- 
nando Cortes,  concerning  New  Spain  of 
the  Oceanic  Sea,  forwarded  to  the  Most 
Saired  and  Invincible  Charles,  Emperor 
ever  august  of  the  Romans,  King  of  Spain, 
&c.,  A.  D.  1520,  containing  many  things 
worthy  of  being  learned  and  admired,  con- 


cerning the  remarkable  cities  of  those  pro- 
vinces, customs  of  the  inhabitants,  sacrifices 
of  children,  and  on  the  subject  of  religious 
persons,  especially  on  the  city  of  Temix- 
titan  and  its  various  wonders,  which  will 
delight  the  reader  in  a  wonderful  manner  j 
translated  from  the  Spanish  language  into 


Bibliotheca   Americana. 


^3S 


126.     CORTES  {FERNANDO)— Within  a  frame  and  heltw  a  mt-     I  5 24. 

dallion  containing  a  most  unseemly  portrait  of  Charles  V.  ^ss-Ba-Baa 

Certta  fixWxM.  Car-  n 

tefil  ^ac.  (ttacfar.  ct  (ttati).  IHaicfta.  ||  IN  NO- 
VA MARIS  OCEANI  HYSPANIA 
GENE-  II  ralis  praefedi  pclara  Narratio,  In 
qua  Celebris  Ciuitatis  Temix  ||  titan  ex- 
pugnatio,  aliarucp  Prouintiaru,  qu^  defe- 
cerant  recupe-  ||  ratio  continetur,  In  quaru 
expugnatione,  recuperationecj  Praefe||d:us, 
una  cum  Hyfpanis  Vidorias  ceterna  me- 
moria  dignas  con  ||  fequutus  eft,  pr^terea  In 
ea  Mare  del  Sur  Cortefium  detexifle  re-  || 
cefet,  quod  nos  Auftrale  Indicu  Pelagus 
putam9,  &  alias  innume  ||  ras  Prouintias 
Aurifodinis,  Vnionibus,  Variifcj  Gemma- 
rum  II  generibus  refertas,  Et  poftremo  illis 
innotuifTe  in  eis  quoc^  Aro-  ||  matac  \sic\ 
ontineri,  Per  Dodore  Petrum  Sauorgnanu 
Foroiulienfem  ||  Reuefi.  in  Chrifto  patris 
dili  lo.  de  Reuelles  Epifcopi  Vienenlis  || 
Secretarium  Ex  Hyfpano  ydiomate  In 
Latinum  Verfa.  II 


Latin,  by  Dr.  Peter  Saguorgnano  (tiV)  of  nando  Cortes,  translated  from  the  Spanish 

Forli,  Secretary  to  the  Reverend  D.  John  into   Latin   by   Dr.    Peter  Savorgnano   of 

dcRevelles,  Bishop  of  Vienna,  A.  D.  1524,  Forli.       Printed    in    the    famous    city   of 

March  1st.   With  permission  and  privilege.  Nuremberg,  while  the  most  Serene  Ferdi- 

Here  ends  the  Second  Relation  of  Fer-  nand,  Infant  of  Spain,  and  Archduke  of 


236  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1524.         Colophon: 

— ~=™^  Impreflum  In  Imperiali  ||  Ciuitate  Nor- 
imberga,  ||  Per  Difcretum,  &  proui  ||  dum 
Virum  Fcedericu  ||  Arthemefium  Ciuem  || 
ibidem,  Anno  Vir-  ||  ginci  partus  Mil  ||  le- 
fimoquingente  |1  fimo  vigefimo  ||  quarto.  1|* 

Recto  of  leaf  I: 

^  De  Rebus  et  Infulis  nouiter  Reper- 
tis  II  a  Serenifs.  Carolo  Imperatore,  Et 
Variis  earum  genti-  ||  um  moribus.  || 

(Inserted  in  the  place  ofthe  lost  First  Narration.) 


*^*  Folio,  four  preliminary  unnumbered  leaves, -f  fifty-one  num- 
I  bcred  leaves  +  one  leaf  of  errata.     Text    in  Roman,  with 

marginal  notes  in  Gothic.     Imperial  arms  on  reverse  of  the 
title. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York,  Providence  and  Waihington  city.) 

First  edition  of  Savorgnanus'  Latin  Version  of 
Cortes'  Second  and  Third  Letters. 

"  Mr.  Heber  had  written  the  following  note  in  his  Catalogue  : 
'  In  the  "  Novus  Orbis"  compiled  by  Grynieus  from  the  papers 
of  Huttichius,  and  published  for  the  fourth  time  at  Basil  by  Her- 
vagius,  in    1555,   Fol.,  these  second  and  third  letters  of  Cortes,  as 


Austria,  Lieutenant  General  of  the  Holy 
Roman  Empire,  was  president  of  the  Im- 
perial Council,  A.  D.  March  4th,  1524, 
By  Frederick  Peypus  Arthimesius. 

*  Anglici :  The  third  Naartion  of  Fer- 
nando Cortes,  of  His  Sacred  Imperial  and 
Catholic  Majesty  in  New  Spain  of  the 
Oceanic  sea;  containing  the  conquest  of 
the  celebrated  city  of  Temixtitan,  and  the 
recovery  of  other  provinces  which  had 
been  lost;  in  the  conquest  and  recovery  of 
which  the  Governor  and  Spaniards  gained 
victories  worthy  of  being  remembered ; 
besides  which  is  related  how  Cortei  dis- 


covered the  South  Sea,  which  we  consider 
the  Southern  Indian  Ocean,  and  innumer- 
able other  provinces  abounding  in  gold 
mines,  pearls  and  various  kinds  of  pre- 
cious stones,  and  whereby  it  was  made 
known  that  they  also  contain  spir?* 
Translated  from  the  Spanish  in'.o  Latin, 
by  Dr.  Peter  Savorgnano  of  f'orli.  Secre- 
tary to  the  Reverend  Father  in  Christ, 
Lord  John  de  Revelles,  Bishop  of  Vienna. 
Printed  in  the  Imperial  City  of  Nuremberg, 
by  the  discreet  and  provident  man  Fred- 
erick Arthemisius,  citizen  of  the  said  city, 
the  year  of  the  Virgin's  parturition  1 514. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


m 


trinsUtcd  by  Savorgnanus,  are  faithfully  inserted,  but  are  not  to  be 
found  in  the  preceding  editions.  The  dedication,  however,  to  Cle- 
ment VII.  prefixed  to  the  version  of  the  former  relation  (dated  from 
Nuremberg,  Id.  Feb.  1524)  is  omitted,  and  so  is  the  Carmen  ad 
Lectorem,  in  fourteen  Latin  elegiacs.  This  is  the  more  remarkable, 
as  the  corresponding  introduction  and  verses  at  the  commencement  of 
xhs  succeeding  TcUuon,  ixt  carefully  preserved.  In  this  copy  on  the 
verso  of  A  iv.  after  «  Argumentum  Libri,'  is  a  fine  woodcut  portrait 
of  Clement  VII.  not  in  the  Hcber  copy»"'         . 


1524. 


Dirict  nfirineti  i 


TlRNAUX,   No.    JJ. 

Orunit,  Vol.  II,  col.  3 IX. 
Bihiioiheca  Grenvilliana,  page  167. 
Bihiiolheca  Broivniana,  page  I  J,  No.  41. 
Bihliothtca  Barlotviana,  page  13. 
Slivtiti'  /Imtrican  Bibliographir,  page  87 


127.    APIANUS  (PETER)— Surmounting  a  globe : 

COSMOGRA 

themiitici  ftttili0fe  r0lkctttsi» 

Colophon  on  page  104  : 

H  IBxcufum  EanDfljutae  Cgpis  ac  formuHia  ||  29. 
JoanniiS  Sil^esffenturgetES :  impnififEt  H  i^etri  Hpiani. 
anno  <ffi)rifti  S)al-  II  tiatori«  omnium  ittiUcfimo  1 1| 
quingentcfimo  i  bicefimo- 1|  quarto  i  MtwU  Ja-  II  nu : 
W^tU  3a  II  turnt  tiomi- 1|  ciltum  ||  poffiDente.  || 


*^*  4to,  Title  one  leaf  +  five  preliminary  leaves  unnumbered  (in 
some  copies  these  are  inserted  at  the  end  of  the  work)  +  o"c 
hundred  and  three  numbered  pages.  On  the  verso  of  the 
title,  the  arms  of  the  Cardinal,  Abp.  of  Saltzburg;  on  page  z, 
a  globe  with  the  word  AMERI  on  an  island;  revolving  dia- 
grams on  pages  17,  22  and  63,  the  latter  containing  the  word 
AMERICA. 

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23  ^  6ibliotheca  Americana. 

I  C24-*        On  page  69,  the  fourth  chapter  begins  with  these  words : 

''="  America :  quae  nunc  <!luarta  parst  XtxxRt  tiici  || 
tut  I  at)  Emevico  Sftefpucio  eiufuS  inuhote  nomen 
fortita  eft.  il  lEt  non  immerito :  quoniam  mari  bntii- 
g>  elautritur  Jnfula  ap  ||  pellatur.* 

Peter  Bienevitz  or  Apianus  was  born  at  Leissnig  in 
Saxony,  in  1495'.     He  died  at  Ingolstadt,  where  he  held 
a  professorship  in  the  University  for  more  than  thirty 
years,  in  1551  (Jocher^),  or  in  1552  {Vossius^).     Accord- 
•  ing  to  Melchior  Adam*,  not  only  Apianus'  dedication 

of  the  present  work  to  Charles  V  was  rewarded  with 
the  order  of  Knighthood,  but  he  received  in  addition 
three  thousand  golden  crowns.  Teissier  says  of  him' : 
"  II  s'adonna  a  l' Imprimerie  [Astrologie  ?]  et  n'eut  jamais 
d'egal  dans  I'invention  des  instrumens  d'Astronomie." 
He  was  also  the  designer  of  the  earliest  map  which  con- 
tains the  name  of  "  America."  (See  supra,  page  183). 
M.  D'Avezac  remarks'",  concerning  the  woodcuts  in- 
serted in  the  Cosmographia  (Caps,  vii  and  viii),  that: 

"La  disposition  des  meridians  et  des  paralleles,  comptes  de  10  en 
10  degres,  est  representee  en  une  serie  de  lignes  droites  equidistantes 
pour  ceux-ci,  et  une  serie  de  demi-cercles  equidistants  pour  ceux-!a, 
les  uns  se  multipliant  jusqu'au  nombre  de  36  (ce  qui  fait  360  degres), 
et  les  autres  s'allongeant  a  proportion,  afin  de  remplir  dans  toute  sa 
largeur  la  figure  de  I'orbe  terrestre  entier,  developpe  en  ovale  dont  le 
plus  grand  diametre  coincide  avec  I'equateur  du  globe.  C'etait  I'es- 
quisse  rudimentaire  d'une  projection  nouvelle  qui.  d'abord  risquee 
dans  ses  proportions  exigues.  devait  engendrer  a  vingt  ans  d'intervalle, 
la  grande  et  remarquable  mappemonde  de  Sebastien  Cabot',  ou  comme 
dans  les  specimens  d'Apianus,  I'echelle  des  longitudes  est  expresse- 


■*  AngUci_!  America,  which  is  now 
called  the  fourth  part  of  the  world,  took 
its  name  from  Americus  Vespuccio,  who 
discovered  it ;  and  is  called  an  island  for 
the  reason  that  it  is  surrounded  by  water. 

'  Pantalion,  ProsopograpAia  f  Basle, 
fol.,  1566,  Part  III,  p.  149,  cited  by  Cl£- 
MINT,  Bibliothique  Curieuu,  Vol.  !,  p.  405, 
who  also  quotes  :,  Albinus  Meittniuht 
Land  und  Btrg-Chrtnica}    Dresden,  fol., 


1589,  p.  350;  Reusner,  Icontt  Viror.  lit. 
iliustr.  {  Strasburg,  8vo,  1590,  p.  17J. 
'  Atlgem.  Gelehrt.  Ltxic,  Vol.  I,  p.  465. 

*  De  Mathesi,  p.  148. 

*  yit<t  German.  Vhilos. ;  Frankfurt,  8to, 
1663,  p.  142,  cited  by  Clement. 

*  Elogts  del  Hommei  Savant,  Vol.  I,  p.  55. 
'  Coup  d'etil  hittorique  tur  la  Projection 

det    Cartel    de   Geographie  ;    Parit,    8to, 
1863,  pp.  SJ-$S. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


239 


mcnt  d'un  tiers  moindre  que  celle  des  latitudes,  de  peur  d'une  exten- 
sion demesuree  du  cadre  dans  le  sens  d'est  en  ouest :  mais  c'etait  la 
une  consideration  purement  accidentelle,  qui  ne  devait  entraver  au- 
cunement  le  retour  ulterieur  a  I'uniformite  d'echelle.  Facile  a  tracer 
ce  mode  de  projection  fit  fortune,  et  il  se  repandit  dans  toute  I'Europe 
i  la  faveur  surtout  des  publications  capitales  de  Sebastien  Munster  et 
d'Abraham  Ortelz." 

This  work  has  been  frequently  printed  and  translated. 
We  give,  infra,  editions  in  Latin  of  1529,  1533,  1539, 
1540,  1541,  1545*  ^SS'^'y  ii^  French  of  1544,  and 
in  Spanish  one  of  1548.  There  are  other  editions  in 
Italian  and  Dutch,  but  of  a  later  date.  The  "  Cosmo- 
graphie  ecrite  en  Alleman,"  mentioned  by  Teissier,  we 
have  never  seen.  It  is  worthy  of  remark  that  Clement 
selects  from  all  the  editions  of  Apianus'  Cosmographia 
that  of  Antwerp,  4to,  1584,  as  the  "plus  ample  &  la 
plus  considerable  de  toutes  les  editions." 

There  are  several,  editions  of  an  abridgment  of  this 
work,  made,  in  all  probability,  by  Apianus  himself,  and 
which  repeats  verbatim  entire  passages  from  the  second 
part  of  the  original  edition.  It  is  frequently  mistaken* 
for  Waltzmuller's  Cosmographia  Introductio  [supra  Nos. 
44-47).  We  have  before  us  the  editions  of  Ingolstadt, 
i2mo,  M.D.XXIX  (colophon  dated  M.D.XXXII). 
thirty-one  leaves ;  Ingolstadt,  lamo,  M.D.XXIX  (colo- 
phon dated  M.D.XXXII  I,  Mense  lanuario),  forty 
leaves;  Venice,  8vo,  MDXXXV,  thirty-one  leaves; 
Venice,  8vo,  MDXXXXI  [Mensis  lulij,  ex  colophon), 
twenty-four  leaves. 


1524. 


Direct  reftrtticei  i 


Panzer,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  vii,  page  134, 
Bibliotheca  Thottiana,  Vol.  vii,  page  219. 
Bibliotheca  Barloiviana,  page  12. 
Bibliotheca  Brevoortiana,  — . 
Aspinwall  Catalogue,  No.  5. 
Ebert,  No.  784. 
Brunei-,  Vol.  i,  col.  342 
Graesse,  Vol.  I,  page  1 59. 


'Republished   in   Jomard,  Monumentt        '  See  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  jv,  p.  ti^ 
de  la  Geographic.     See  our  appendix.  and  ourselves  (supra,  p.  62,  note  88). 


•4 


1^ 


1524. 


240  Bibtiotheca  Jmericana. 

128.    BBRGOMAS  {J AC.  PHIL.)— Above  a  large  woodcut  rep- 

,  resenting  St.  Michael  and  the  dragon : 

SVPPLEMENTVM||SVPPLEMENTI|| 
mt  le  crijronicte  trel  ©enetantio  patJte  ,lFta-||tc 
Sacobo  ^tillipo  licl  ortiine  l^etemitaiio  ||  Wwo 
auti)ore.  ® Igarijato  x  l^gftoriato.  ||  cum  la  aiuitta 
pet  iufiiino.  1524.II 

Colophon  : 

(E  FinifTe  Supplemento  de  le  Chroniche 
Vulgarizato  &  Hyftoriato  con  la  gion  |1  ta 
per  infino  del  anno  1524.  del  mefe  di 
Octobrio.  ImprefTo  in  Venetia||per  loane 
Francifcho  &  loanne  Antonio  Fratelli  di 
Rufconi.  II  Regnante  lo  Inclyto  Principe 
Andrer  Grid.  Nel  an- 1|  no  del  Signore. 
1524.  del  mefe  di  Nouebrio.|| 

*^*  Folio,  cccLXvi  numbered  leaves,  many  woodcuts. 

(British  Museum.) 


129. 


CORTES  {FERNANDO)— Within  a  broad  border: 


ILa  prcclara  iBLartatione  tri  jFertflnan  ||  do 
Cortefe  della  Nuoua  Hifpagna  del  Mare 
Oceano,  al  |1  Sacratiflimo,  &  Inuidiflimo 
Carlo  di  Romani  Imperatore  fem  ||  pre 
Augufto  Re  Dhifpagna  &  cio  che  fiegue, 
nellano  del  Si||gnore.  M.D.XX.  trafmefTa: 
Nella  quale  H  eotegono  mol  1|  te  cofe  degne 
di  fcienza,  8c  ammiratione,  circa  le  cittadi 
egregie  di  quelle  Prouincie  coftumi  dhab- 


Bibliotheca   Americana. 


241 


itatori,  fa  ||  crifici  di  Fanciulli,  8c  Religiofe  1524. 
perfone,  Et  mafli- 1|  mamente  della  celebre  = 
citta  Temixtitan,  &  va- 1|  rie  cofe  marauig- 
liofe  di  quella,  e  quali  dilet- 1|  teranno  mira- 
bilmete  il  lettore  per  il  Dot- 1|  tore  Pietro 
Sauorgnano  Foroiulienfe  ||  Del  Riuerendo 
MefTer  Giouani  de  ||  Reuelles  Vefcouo  di 
Vienna  Se-||cretario  dal  iddioma  Hifpagni|| 
uolo  in  lingua  latina  Con-||uerfa  Nel  Anno. 
M.D.XXIIII.  di  Primo  Mar||zo  :  Hora 
nelleftefToli  Millefimo  di  XVII.Agofto.  Voi|| 
Candidiflimi  lettori  leggerete  con  diletta- 
tione  &  piacere  ||  grandiflimo  la  prefata 
Narratione  di  Fernando  Corte  fe  dalla 
Facodia  latina  al  fpledore  della  lingua  vol- 
gare  p  MefTer  Nicolo  Liburnio  co  fidelta 
&  diligeza  tradotta  al  comodo,  &  fodisfat- 
tione  de  glhonefti  &  virtuofi  ingegni.  || 

(ftum  gratia  r  priutlegio.il 

Colophon  : 

(I  Stampata  in  Venetia  per  Bernardino 
de  Viano  de  Lexona  Vercellefe.  Ad  in- 
ftancia  de  Bapti- 1|  fta  de  Pederzani  Brixiani. 
Anno  domi-ljni.  M.D.XXIIII.  Adi.  XX. 
Agofto.^ 


* 


*  ^n^/rV<;  The  famous  Relation  of  Fer-     the  Oceanic  Sea,  transmitted  in  the  year 
nando  Cortes,  concerning   New   Spain   of     A.  D.  15 zo,  to  the  most  Sacred  and  In vin- 

31 


1524. 


242  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

\*  410,  seventy-three  numbered  leaves.     On  the  verso  of  the  last, 
a  printer's  mark  representing  an  elephant.     This  edition  con-  , 
tains  a  large  plan  of  the  city  of  Mexico,  with  descriptions  in 
Italian  instead  of  Latin,  as  in  the  Peypus  Cortes  of  1524  (No. 
'     125),  which  was  evidently  the  prototype  for  the  present. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence,  and 
N.  y.  Historical  Soc.  Libr.) 

*    This  Italian  version  of  the  second  account  differs 
materially  from  that  which  was  given  by  Ramusio'. 

Direct  references:  f  Panzer,  Annates  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  viii,  page  486,  No.  1248. 
Bibliotheca  Pinelliana,  Vol.  iv,  page  III. 
Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  vi,  No.  1002,  and  part  x,  No.  848. 
Bibliotheca  Brotvniana,  page  13,  No.  39. 
Ebert,  No.  5325. 
Brunet,  Vol.  ir,  col.  312. 

Reina,  Walckenaer,  Potier  and  Hibbert  Catalogues  (page  129,  No 
2264  of  the  latter). 


130.  IDEM  OPUS— Precisely  like  the  above  No.  128,  save  the 
colophon,  which  is  as  follows  : 

Stampata  in  Venetia  per  Zuan^  Antonio 
de  Nico-lllini  da  Sabio.  Ad  inftantia  de 
M.  Baptifta  ||  de  Pederzani  Brixiano.    An- 

'^O    A-/.     (British  Museum.) 


Direct  references:  (  Bibliotheca  Grenvilliana,  page  166. 
(  Livres  Curieux,  No.  131. 


cible  Charles,  Emperor  ever  august  of  the 
Romans,  King  of  Spain,  &c. ;  containing 
many  things  worthy  of  being  known  and 
admired,  concerning  the  remarkable  cities 
of  those  provinces,  customs  of  the  inhabit- 
ants, sacrifices  of  children,  and  religious 
persons,  and  especially  of  the  celebrated 
city  of  Tcmixtitan,  and  various  wonderful 
things  in  the  same,  which  will  delight  the 
reader  in  a  wonderful  manner;  translated 
from  the  Spanish  into  Latin  by  Dr.  Peter 
Savorgnano  of  Forli,  Secretary  to  the 
Rev.  Master  John  de  Revelles,  Bishop  of 
Vienna,  March,  1524:  Now,  August  17th, 
ye  most  candid  readers  will  peruse  with  the 


greatest  delight  and  pleasure  the  aforesaid 
narrative  of  Fernando  Cortes,  translated 
faithfully  and  with  diligence  from  the  elo- 
quent Latin  to  the  splendid  vulgar  tongue, 
by  Master  Thomas  Liburnio,  for  the  con- 
venience and  satisfaction  of  honest  and 
appreciative  minds.  With  grace  and  pri- 
vilege. 

Printed  at  Venice  by  Bernardin  de  Viano 
de  Lexona,  of  Vercelli ;  at  the  request  of 
Baptist  de  Pederzani  of  Brescia,  August 
20th,  A.  D.  1524. 

'  Raccolta,  Vol.  in,  pp.  225-304. 

'  There  were  several  de  Sabios  who 
exercised   the   art   of  printing  at  Venice. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  243 

I  3  I .    FRANCIS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

^  DE     ORBIS  II  SITV     AC     DESCRIPTIONE, 

AD  RE  II  uerendijs.  D.  archiepifcopum  Panormitattum,  \\ 
Francisjci,  Monachi  ordinis  Fr^cifcani,  epijlola  Jane  qu& 
luculenta.  In  qua  ||  Ptolemai,  deterorumq  ;  Jupe  ||  riorU 
geographorum  hal\\lucinatio  re/el/itur.  \\  aliaq  ;  praterea\\ 
de  recens  \\  inuen  \\  tis  \\  t  err  is,  mari,  injulis.  Deditio  papa 
loannis  Dejitu  \\  Paradijii,  ^  dimenftone  miliar  urn  ad  pro  || 
pdrtioni  graduum  cceli,  praclara  ||  ^  memoratu  digna  recen  \\ 
Jentur  \\ 

Colophon : 

EXCVDEBAT  MARTINVS  CAE-  ||  far,  expenfis  honefti  viri 
Rolandi  Bollaert,  com- 1|  morantis  Antuerpiae  iuxta  portam  Ca-||mere 
Cub  interfignio  maio- 11  ris  falconis  albi.  ||* 


1524. 


*^*  izmo,  title  one  leaf-f- fourteen  unnumbered  leaves;  on  the 
verso  of  the  last  a  printer's  mark,  with  the  motto :  SOLA 
FIDES  SVFFICIT.  On  the  verso  of  the  title-page,  a 
mappemund,  inscribed  :  Hoc  orbis  Hemispharium  cedit  regi 
Lusitatiia.  On  the  recto  of  the  following  leaf,  another  map- 
pemund or  hemisphere,  bearing  this  inscription  :  Hoc  orbis 
Hemispheerium  cedit  regi  Hispanite,  and  the  word  AMERICA 
on  the  southern  part  of  the  continent. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

We  have  been  wholly  unable  to  find  any  biographical 
details   concerning   the  author  of  this   curious   work. 


Stephanus,  in  partnership  with  his  brothers, 
printed  from  1524  to  1536.  Peter  de 
Nicolinis  de  Sabio,  from  1526  to  15361 
Sebastian  in  1534,  and  Nicolo  di  Nicolini 
in  1535  >  but  we  find  no  mention  in  Pan- 
zer of  a  John  or  of  an  Anthony  of  that 
name.  These  researches  were  necessary 
to  unravel  the  meaning  of  the  mysterious 
D  at  the  end  of  the  colophon. 

*  AngUcc :  A  very  exquisite  letter  from 
Francis,  a  monk  of  the  Franciscan  order, 
to  the  most  Reverend  Archbishop  of  Paler- 
mo,  touching  the  site  and  description  of 
the  globe.    Wherein  the  delusions  of  Ptol- 


emy and  of  other  geographers  are  dispelled. 
Also,  concerning  the  newly  discovered 
lands,  seas  and  islands.  Dedicated  to  Pope 
John  [?t],  touching  the  site  of  Para- 
dise   and    the    measurement   of  distances 


t  Julius  (ie  Medicis,  under  the  name  of  Clement 
Vll,  was  pope  from  1515  to  15J4,  while  his  two 
immediate  predecessors  were  Adrian  VI  and  Leo  X. 
The  latter  was  named  John  (de  Medicis),  but  to 
consider  him  as  the  pope  mentioned  hrreln.  would 
carry  the  date  of  the  work  to  1 51  J,  which  is  an 
impossibility,  as  it  mentions  Cortes  and  Magellan. 
Is  it  not  rather"  Presbyter  John"  who  is  intended, 
while  dtdltart  must  be  taken  in  the  sense  of  an 
assertion  t 


244 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


1524.    The  only  notice  we  could  discover  is  the  following, 

which  we  copy  from  Valerius  Andre,  Andreas,  Desse- 

lius  or  Taxander' : 


"  Fraiiciscus  Monachus,  &  familiie  nomine  &  professione,  Machli- 
niensis,  ord.  Minorum." 


Fabricius,  Saxius  and  Jocher  mention  several  monks 
of  the  name  of  Franciscus  belonging  to  the  Franciscan 
order,  but  the  references  are  not  sufficiently  definite  to 
authorize  us  to  ascribe  the  present  work  to  any  of  them. 
Those  of  our  readers  who  have  access  to  J.  F.  of  St. 
Anthony's  Supplement  to  Wadding's  Scriptores  ordinis 
Minorum^  may  be  more  successful.  The  archbishop 
mentioned  on  the  title-page  was  the  well-known  Jehan 
de  Carondelet',  born  at  Dole  in  1469,  the  friend  of 
Charles  V  and  of  Erasmus*,  and  who,  after  holding  the 
high  position  of  Primate  of  Sicily,  died  at  Malines  in 
1 544'.  Laire  considers*  this  Carondelet  as  the  author, 
while  he  was  only  the  recipient  of  the  epistle  in  its 
original  form'.  As  to  the  work  mentioned  by  this 
painstaking  but  unreliable^  bibliographer,  it  is  only  a 
later  edition  of  the  work  before  us,  mentioned  also  by 
Valerius  Andreas. 

The  only  reference  approaching  a  description  of  the 


according  to  the  proportion  of  the  celestial 
degrees,  remarkable  and  worthy  of  being 
examined. 

Printed  by  Martin  Lempereur,  at  the 
expense  of  the  Honorable  Roland  Bollaert, 
residing  at  Antwerp,  near  the  arched 
gate  [  ?  ],  at  the  sign  of  the  large  white 
falcon. 

'  Bibliotheca  Belgica,  4to,  1643,  p.  234. 

'  Bibliotheca  universa  franciu. ;  Mad- 
rid, fol.,  l75i-33- 

•  See  the  heading  of  the  epistle  on  the 
recto  of  the  first  leaf. 

•  Erasmus'  edition  of  St.  Hiliarius  (Z.u- 
cubrationes;  Basle,  fol.,  1 523)  is  dedicated 
to  Carondelet. 

•  FoppENS,  Bibl.  Belgica,  Vol.  11,  p.  605. 


*  "  Suivant  le  P.  Laire,  on  a  imprime  a 
Anvers  en  1565,  in-8°,  un  ouvrage  de  lui 
[Carondelet]  intitule  Je  orbis  situ.  Le 
P.  Laire  assure  avoir  vu  un  exemplaire  de 
cet  ouvrage  dans  la  Bibliotheque  du  Vati- 
can. Nous  ne  connaissons  aucun  autre 
bibliographe  qui  en  fasse  mention."  {Bio- 
graphic Universelle,  Vol.  VII,  p.  31.)  The 
edition  mentioned  by  Laire  is  lamo, 
printed  by  Withagius,  and  numbers  nine- 
teen leaves.  There  is  a  copy  of  it  in  a 
private  library  in  Providence.  See  Bib- 
liotheca Browniana,  p.  40,  No.  145. 

'  See  AuDiFFREUi,  Lettcre  tipografiche ; 
Rome,  8vo,  1778. 

'  Bibliotheca  Classica  s.  catalogut  offici- 
nalis; Francft.,  410.  161 1,  p.  760. 


Bibliotheca   Americana. 


H^ 


present  number,  is  a  short  mention  in  Draudius^  that  1 5  24. 
"  Catalogue  assez  mal  digere  des  foires  de  Francfort,"  -— s-s-s- 
as  Baillet'  calls  the  Bibliotheca  Classica. 


Dirtct  rtftrenct !  Siilhtieca  Barlowiana,  fige  lo. 

132.     jIRIAS  (PETER)— "  hcttere    di     Pietro   Arias    1 525. 
Capitano  generale,  della  conquista  del  paefe  del  Mar  =b— --— - 
Occeano    Scripte   alia    Maefta    Cefarea   dalla  Cipta   di 
Panama  delle  cofe  ultimamente  fcoperte  nel  Mar  Meri- 
diano  dedto  el  Mar  Sur.  MDXXV.  fig.  e.  b.  au  titre. 
i6mo.  s.  1.  1525.     (En  vers.) 

"  Entre  autres  il  s'agit  dans  cette  lettre  du  depart  de 
Pizarro  pour  la  decouverte  du  Perou  en  1525." 

(Asher's  Catalogue,  1865.) 

Pedro  Arias  de  Avila,  usually  called  Pedrarias,  was  the 
energetic,  yet  pusillanimous  and  malignant  governor  of 
Darien,  who  founded  Panama,  first  extended  the  Spanish 
rule  over  Nicaragua  and  Costa-Rica,  put  Balboa  to 
death,  and  brought  Pizarro  into  notice.  The  above 
poem  or  epistle  refers,  we  imagine,  to  the  filibustering 
expedition  of  Diego  de  Almagro,  Hernando  de  Luque 
and  Francisco  Pizarro,  which  sailed  from  Panama  in 
the  middle  of  November'  or  on  the  14th*  of  November, 
1524,  or  in  1525', 


i 


'  Jugtmtns  des  Savons,  Vol.  ir,  p.  14. 

Valerius  Andreas  {/oc.  cit.)  ascribes  to 
our  Franciscus  a  work  which  we  suppose, 
from  the  title,  to  have  some  bearing  on 
the  subject  before  us  : 

"  Regiones  quaqut  SeptentrionaUs  in  tabula 
compiciendas  dedit.  Antvtr.  apud  Sylves- 
trum  a  Parisiis." 

'  HtRRERA,  Decad.  in,  Libr.  vi,  cap. 
XIII,  p.  200. 


*  Xeres,  Conquista  del  Peru,  in  Barcia's 
Historiadores  primitivos.  Vol.  ni,  p.  179. 

•  C1E9A  DE  Leon,  Primera  parte  de  la 
chronica  del  Peru;  Seville,  fol.,  1553; 
Antwerp,  8vo,  1554. 

— Garcilasso  de  la  Vega,  la  His- 
toria  general  del  Peru  f  Lisbon,  2  vols., 
fol,,  first  vol.,  1 609  (colophon  dated  1 608 ) ; 
second  vol.,  1616  and  1617;  Madrid,  x 
vols.,  fol.,  1722-23  (best  edit.) 


I  ! 


^i 


246  Bibliothica   Americana. 

1^25.     133*     FRIES  (LAURENT)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 


ctrtlieii  dker  g^nrtliii  9Rarina||^ariit  mon  fefen  01119 1  i«a 
finer  in  ber  ivelt  fetimnb  tna  ein  ietliif  ||  Sunk  1  fi^ajftr 
nnb  Stat  gelegS  ifi.    ^ae  al@  in  be  trnftin  jefinbt  || 

Colophon  : 

^tixvitii  )fl  Straflinrg  tiiin  ||  ^o^anneg  ^rieningen 
bnb  II  boKenbet  bjf  bnfer  Sie- 1|  ben  frainen  abent  ber  || 
gebnrt.  ^m.  ^nr  II 1. 5. 2. 5.  H'' 

*^*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  ■\-  thirty-three   numbered   leaves  +  two 
large  maps,  one  of  which  gives  Cadamosto's  first  voyage. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Washington  city.) 

See  the  verso  of  the  last  leaf  for  the  chapter  : 

Son  9lmeriea  ein  tet)(  banonliie  befdiriben. 

We  have  mislaid  our  memorandum,  and  cannot  state 
our  authority  for  ascribing  the  above  to  the  Lorenz 
Fries,  whom  we  suppose  to  be  the  one  described  by 
Jocher'  in  these  words : 

"  Gebohren  zu  Mergentheim  in  Franken  1491,  war  wiirtzburgischer 
Rath  und  Archivarius,  applicirte  sich  sonderlich  auf  die  wiirtzbur- 
gischen  Geschichte  wurde  seiner  Geschiciclichkeit  und  Wohlreden- 
heit  halber  in  wichtigen  GesandtchafFten  an  die  Kayser  Carl  V  und 
Ferdinand  I  gebraucht,  war  ein  grosser  Befordercr  der  Gelehrten." 


*  yinglici  :  Explanation  of  the  map  of         Printed  at  Strasburg  by  John  Grieninger, 

the  World,  or  Naval  Chart,  wherein  one  and  finished  on  the  evening  of  the  birth  of 

may  see  where  he  is,  and  where  several  our  Dear  Virgin,  in  the  year  15x5. 
countries,  seas  and  cities  are  situated.     All  ^  Allgtmeines   Gtlthrt.  Ltxic,  Vol.   11, 

of  which  will  be  f?und  in  this  bf>ok.  p.  765. 


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134.     PIGAFETTA  (F.  A.)— Redo  of  the  first  leaf: 

fi  mx^n^  a  na-  ii  XZ 

\t^  IBfpaignoI^  edlljfleis  tie  moHucqueis.  treis  ineis 
qutUllont  ttouue  autiict  borage  1  ties  Mos^llliiceKegi 
De  leut  gouuecnement  r  mait-||iece  ti  uiureiabec 
plufieutis  au(trei9llct)ofejE(.|| 

4b  Cnm  |lrimle0t0  h 

([  <!^n  les  benir  a  i9att»  at  la  maifon  )ie||3tmon 
De  (t^\xm%  I  libraite  iure  tie  lu  ||  niuerfite  tie  i^atist  i 
oemourdten  la  ruell^ainct  Je1)antiel3eauluat0i 
a  lenfei-  II  gne  tiu  ^oleil  Bor.  || 

Recto  of  leaf  2  .- 

d  He  boMge  r  nauigation  aujc  bleis  tie  ||  iHol- 
lurqueitiefcrit  r  faict  tie  noble  ||  i)omme  ^nttoine 
pigopijetta  bin=  II  rftin  i  (ttijeualier  tie  Mi)Oties  i  pre= 
fentee  a  iii)Uippe  tie  btlHers  Ufle  atiam  ||  grant 
maiftre  tie  M1)otie!9.  commeee  II  letiict  bogage  Ian 
mil  cinq  cenis  tiix- 1|  neuf  et  tie  retour  Ittil.  ceccc.xxii. 
le  II  1)U9tirme  iout  tie  ^eptembre.  II 

End  of  the  text : 

LIBntiemain  1  Hnt1)oine  pigopt^tta  ||  alia  a  baltioli  i 
ou  eftoit  leperenr  II  attatles.  i5t  ne  lug  pres 
fenta  or  i  argent  i  ne  II  cfiofe  precieufe  tiigne  tiung  fi 
granti  fei-  II  gneur  i  mai^  ung  liure  efeript  tielamain  1 1| 
ou  eftaient  les  etofess  paffees  i  tie  iour  en  ||  iour  tie 
leur  borage.  lEt  tie  la  fe  partit  a  II  aller  en  iPor= 
tugal  au  ros  Joan  i  et  lug  tiift  II  less  et)ofe^  que 


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1525.  auoient  beuitftt  lieia  3Efpal II  gnolt  que  Hejt  ftensj. 

—  ^uist  pat  ffifpalgne  11  blent  en  jFtancc  1  et  prefenva 

et  telft  auctin  ||  Iron  ^t^  ctofest  te  lautre  |ljemi«= 
pl)ere  a  la  ||  mete  tru  JEtest  ci)teftlen  tog  lie  4f  face 
name  iLiftancolfii  I  maUame  la  tegente.  ^uls  iiintjl 
en  ILltalle  1  r  ptefenta  le  Uute  Ue  fa  fatlpe  ij  a  ^i)il= 
Ippes  He  bllliets  1  gtanli  lillalftte  ^t  II  M1)olie».  y 

([  art)  finit  lexttait  tiutiict  Uute  1 II  U'anflate  ije 
Jtalien  en  !i  if tanccifit.  || 


*^*  Small  8vo,  sine  anno  (but  not  much  earlier  ilian  1525,  as  Piga- 
fetta  was  not  made  a  knight  of  Rhodes  until  October,  1524) ; 
seventy-six  numbered  leaves,  +  four  unnumbered  leaves  con- 
taining, besides  the  table  of  contents,  short  vocabularies  of 
the  language  of  the  "  isle  de  Bresil,  More  de  Tadore,"  and  of 
the  giants  of  Patagonia.  Text  in  black  letter,  marginal  notes 
and  last  four  leaves  in  Roman  characters. 

(Private  Library,  Providence.) 

Francisco-Antonio,  or  Jerome'  Pigafetta,  or  Paga- 
pheta,  an  Italian  nobleman,  who  was  born  at  Vicenza 
towards  tiie  year  1491*.  He  belonged  to  the  suite  of 
the  embassador  (Francesco  Chiericato),  whom  Leo  X 
sent  in  1510  to  Charles  V',  then  at  Barcelona.  He  soon 
afterwards  became  the  companion  and  friend  of  Magel- 
lan, whom  he  accompanied  in  his  famous  voyage  around 
the  world  on  board  the  Victoria.  He  was  one  of  the 
sixteen  who  survived*  the  hardships  of  the  voyage. 
•(See  supra,  page  228.)  He  died  at  Vicenza  towards  the 
year  1534,  in  a  house  which  was  still  standing  in  1800, 
"  Rue  de  la  Lune\"  and  which  bore  the  well-known 

motto:     IL  NEST  .   ROSE  .   SANS  .  ESPINE. 


'  p.  Jovins,  Hitloria    sui   temporit    {ab         *  See  his  own   dedication  to  Villiers  de 

anno   1494   ad  ann.    1547);    Florence,  i  I'lsle-Adam,  in  Amoretti's  edition, 
vols.,  fol.,  1550-52;  lib.  xxxiv.  *  Piter  Martyr,  Ofus  epist.,  efist,  767 

'  Marzari,  Storia  di  Vicenza  ;  Venice,  and  770. 
4to,    1 591  ;    aW   anno,    1480    (cited    by         •  Amoretti's  valuable  introduction  to 

Amoretti,  introd.,  p.  xxxi).  the  French  translation,  p.  xxxv,  note. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


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The  bibliographical  history  of  his    account  of  that    1525. 

memorable  undertaking  seems  to  be  as  follows  :  

Whilst  at  sea,  Pigafetta  kept  a  diary,  a  copy  of  which 
he  afterwards  presented  to  Charles  V,  of  Spain,  at  Val- 
ladolid.  On  his  return  to  Italy,  by  means  of  the 
original  of  that  journal,  and  other  notes,  and  at  the 
request  of  Pope  Clement  VIP,  and  of  the  Great-Master 
Villiers  de  I'lsle  Adam,  Pigafetta  wrote  a  fuller  account 
of  the  expedition.  Of  this  he  made  a  few  copies,  which 
were  presented  to  several  high  personages,  one  of  whom 
was  Louise  de  Savoy,  mother  to  Francis  I  of  France. 
Louise  not  being  able  to  understand,  we  imagine,  the 
kind  of  patois  used  by  Pigafetta,  and  which  resembles 
a  mixture  of  Italian  or  Venitian  and  Spanish,  requested 
one  Jacques  Antoine  Fabre'^  to  translate  the  work  into 
French.  Instead  of  giving  a  literal  version,  Fabre  only 
published  a  kind  of  abridgment,  which  is  the  above 
No.  134.  It  should  be  stated,  however,  that  some  critics^ 
believe  that  the  work  was  originally  written  in  French: 
an  opinion  which  seems  to  be  based  upon  two  manu- 
scripts, which  are  still  in  existence  (perhaps  the  same 
described  twice).  Both  are  on  vellum,  illuminated,  and 
in  the  French  language. 

The  first  is  mentioned  in  the  La  Valliere  Catalogue' 
as  follows  : 

"  Navigation  &  discourement  de   la   Indie  fuperieure^ 
faicte  par  moi  Anthoine  Pigaphete  Fincentin,  Chevalier  de 
Rhodes  [contains  also  the  treatise  on  the  Sphere].    Folio, 
\02feuillets." 

The  other  manuscript  was  sold  at  one  of  the  Libri 
sales,  and  is  described'  in  these  words  : 

"  PIGAPHETE  {Anthoine) .     Navigation  et  descouure- 


'  Du  Verdier,  Bibliothiques  francohes, 
p.  133,  erroneously  says  :  "par  translateur 
incertain." 

'  Thomassy,  in  the  Paris  Bulletin  de 
la  Hociite  de  Giografhie  tor  September, 
1843.    Alcido,  on  the  other  hand,  states 


that  the  original  account,  "  a  Tarios  Prin- 
cipes,"  was  "  en  Italiano,  EspaAol  jr 
Portuguese." — Bibtioleca  Americana,  MS., 
Vii.  11,  p.  669. 

"  Part  I,  Vol.  Ill,  No.  4537- 
'  Catalogue,  for  i86z,  Xo.  1 1 39. 


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1525.    menl  de  la  Inde  superieure  et  ties  Malucque  [sic)  ou  nais- 

i^—sss!—  sent  les  cloux  de   Girofle^  faicte  pur  Anthoine  Pigaphete 

Vincentin  chevallier  de  Rhodes.     Commenceant  en  fan  Mil 

y"  et  fjifi  (1519).     Manuscrit  du  Xf^I'  sihle  sur  v'elin, 

petit  in-folio." 

This  description  is  followed  by  an  interesting  note, 
from  which  we  copy  the  following: 

"  Le  manuscrit  que  nous  decrivons  ici  (ontieni  cettt  relation  origi- 
nale  qu'on  nlppouiit  perdue.  Kile  est  en  tran^ais,  car  Pigatetta  avait  dii 
employer  cctte  langue  en  s'adressant  au  grand-maitre  de  Rhodes,  qui 
etait  tran9ais.  On  lit  en  cfFet,  au  bas  du  titre  cette  adresse,  •  An- 
thoyne  Pigaphete  Patricie  Vincentin  et  Chevallier  de  Rhodes,  a 
•  riilustrissime  ct  tres-excclicnt  Seigneur  Philippe  de  Villers  L'lleadam, 

indite  grand-maistre  de  Rhodes,  son  seigneur  osseruatissime.' 

"Cctte  adresse,  rcmplie  d'italianismes,  ainsi  que  tout  le  rcste  de 
I'ouvrage,  offre  une  preuve  de  plus  de  I'originalito  de  cette  redaction 
ecrite  en  fran^ais  par  un  italien. 

"  En  comparant  ce  manuscrit  avec  la  relation  publice  par  Amoretti, 
on  s'aperi^oit  que  cette  relation  n'est  qu'un  extrait  et  une  paraphrase, 
souvcnt  fort  defigurce,  du  texte  fran9ais.  Les  deux  relations  se  suivcnt 
de  prcs,  mais  dans  notre  manuscrit  il  y  a  plus  de  choses.  Elles  sont 
mieux  dites  et  les  noms  sont  ecrits  bicn  plus  exactemcnt  que  dans  la 
relation  publiee  par  Amoretti.  Cela  est  surtout  frappant  dans  les 
vocabulaires  des  langues  de  I'Oceanie,  etc.,  que  donne  Pigafetta  et 
que  Pabreviateur  italien  a  souvent  bouleverses." 

Be  that  as  it  may,  Fabre's  abridgment  was  translated 
into  Italian  by  some  unknown  translator,  and  published 
probably  at  Venice  in  1534  [infra),  and  republished  in 
1536  {infra).  Ramusio's  version'"  is  only  a  plagiarism 
from  the  latter,  and  not  a  direct  translation  from  Fabre. 

As  Fabre's  garbled  version  is  scarcely  intelligible,  and 
was  the  only  account  known  during  the  last  two  cen- 
turies, we  easily  understand  the  innuendoes  lavished  by 
Ramusio'",  Tiraboschi"  and  De  Pauw",  who  do  not 
spare  their  epithets  when  speaking  of  Pigafetta's  f^iaggio. 


••  Raccolta,  Vol.  l,  p.  346,  tq. 

"  Sloria  d.  Lett.  Italiana,  V.  VII,  p.  160. 


"  Rechtrchet  tur  lei  Amiricaint,  Vol.  I, 
p.  289. 


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251 


Judging  from  certain  manuscript  notes,  preserved  in  the  15^5* 
Ste.  Genevieve  Library,  their  opinion  is  not  without  aiHHBHH 
foundation." 

A  very  early  transcript  made,  as  is  supposed,  from 
one  of  Pigafetta's  original  copies,  if  not  fron  an  Italian 
translation  of  the  latter,  was  discovered  in  the  Ambro- 
sian  Library  at  the  beginning  of  the  present  century  by 
one  of  the  librarians,  the  learned  Carlo  Amoretti,  who 
put  the  text  into  good  Italian,  published  it  in  i8oo'*, 
and  soon  afterwards  in  French".  Pinkerton"'  gave  an 
English,  and  Sprengel'^  and  Kries*"  German  versions 
of  Amoretti's  original  publication. 

The  Novus  Orbis  of  1555"',  and  Eden",  give  only  a 
version  of  the  present  No.  134. 


Dirtct  rtftrtncti  i 


Antonio,  Biblhthtca  Hiifjn.  Nova,  Vol.  Ii,  page  376. 

Maittairi,  ^nitu/ei  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  II,  page  773,  nmt. 

Panzer,  Wnno/fj  Tyf>o^r.,  V'ol.  viil,  page  217, 

McusEL,  Bihiiollieca  llitlorka.  Vol.  Ill,  Pt.  11,  page  114. 

Dts  Brosses,  Njiiigalictii  aux  lerrei  /luslralet,  Vol.  i,  page  1 21. 

Bibliotheca  Braiuniana,  page    14,  No.  45. 

Ebkrt,  No.  1 68 1 4. 

Ternaux,  No.  31. 

Brunit,  Vol.  IV,  col.  650. 

Graessi,  Vol.  V,  page  289. 


>'  "  L'uii  cics  aslroiiomci  Ics  plus  savariti  ilu  dix- 
huilicmf  sicdc  crut  devoir  soumctirc  Ic  ricit  du 
vny;igcur  iulirii  a  uii  exameii  miiiutieuXf  et  il 
l>r(nive,  dans  des  observations  dcmeurcrs  matm- 
icritcs,  que  Pigaletta  confciidit  au  relour,  de  la 
I'a^oti  la  plus  ^iraitgc,  plusieurs  positions  dc  terrcs, 
aujourd'hui  bien  coiinues.  Voy.  Ruhtrihti  giag- 
rafhiifuii  sur  I'etal  ct  la  position  des  licux  ou  I'on 
pourra  observer  le  passage  de  Venus  avcc  plus 
d'avantage,  p.  )oi  parmi  les  MS.S.  de  la  Hiblioih. 
Ste.  Genevieve."  Ukm.s,  art.  Magtlhn^  Nouv. 
Biigr.  giniratt^  Vol.  X.XXII,  p.  6So,  note. 


Prima  yiaggiu  into)  no  al  Globo  Ttr- 
racquto  ossia  ragguaglio  della  Navigazione 
allt  Indie  Orienta/i  fer  la  "via  ifOcciJenle 
fatia  Jul  Cavaliere  Antonio  Pigafetta  Pa- 
trizio  yicentino,  Sulla  SquaJra  del  Capit. 
Miigaglianet  negli  anni  I  519-- 1 522  Ora 
fuhblicato  per  la  prima  volta.  Iratto  da  un 
Codice  MS.  della  Biblioteca  Ambrosiana  di 
Milano  e  corredato  di  note  Da  Carlo  Amo- 
retti Dotlore  del  Collegia  Ambrosiano.  Con 
un  Transunio  del  Trattato  di  Navigazione 
delh  ileiio  Autort. 


•r   In  Milano  MDCCC. 


'■%*  Large  410,  pp.  237  j  four  maps 
(iheie  are  twenty-one  in  the  original;  see 
Amoretti's  Introduction,  p.  xi.IIl). 

'»  Paris,  Svo,  Tan  IX  [of  the  French 
Republic,  ;'.  *.,  iSoi]. 

"  Collectiin  of  Voyages  i  London,  410, 
1819,  Vol.  I,  pp.  188-381. 

"  Beytragen,  Vol.  iv,  pp.  1-155.  (We 
are  unablt  to  state  whether  it  is  in  the  first 
Sfries,  published  in  conjunction  with  J.  R. 
KiiRSTER,  his  father-in  law,  Leipzig,  14 
Vols.,  8vo,  1781-90,  or  in  the  second 
scries,  published  by  Sprenoel  alone,  Halle, 
13  vols.,  8v<i,  1790-94.) 

'"  Beschreihung  der  von  Magellan  unter- 
nommenen  eriien  /(else  urn  die  tPelt  f  Gotha, 
8vo,  1 80 1,  3  maps. 

"  P.iges  524-538. 

'°  History  of  Travayle;  London,  410, 
1577,  fol.  430. 


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13^.     CORTES  {FERNANDO)— mthin  a  border,  and  under  the 
,  double-headed  eagle  coat-of-arms  : 

Ea  quarta  rclacion  q  jFernatio  cortrs  goucrll 
natJor  g  capitan  general  pnr  fu  majeftati  enlall 
nueua  iSfpana  Ul  mar  oreano  emi)io  al  mujj  ||  alto 
r  muj)  potentimmo  inuicfimiiio  fenor  II  tion  iarlog 
emperatror  femper  augufto  sllrei)  :»e  iSfpana  nueftro 
fefiior:  enla  qual  eftan  ||  otras  cartas  0  relaciones 
que  los  rapitanes IllJctiro  Ire  aluaratro  r  ©iego 
SoTio))  ettttia  ||  ron  al  tJicijo  capitati  jFernartio  M 
cortes.  II 

Colophon : 

jFue  impressa  la  prefente  carta  Ije  relacionll 
enla  imperial  rhitiatr  tie  ColeJjo  por  (Caspar  tie 
auila.llHcaijose  a  bcimtctiias  trcl  mes  tie(Detui)re.|| 
afio  tiel  nafrimiento  tie  nueftvo  falua-IIUor  Jefu 
ci)rifto  tre  mil  r  quinieu  ||  tos  r  begnte  g  cineo  || 
anos^t.ll^ll 

*^*  Folio,  twenty-one  unnumbered    leaves,   including   the   title, 
on  the  verso  of  which  the  text  begins.     Signatures  a  in  six,  b 
and  c  in  eights,  including  the  blank  at  the  end. 
{  D. )  (Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

This  first  edition  of  the  Fourth  Narration  relates  from 
May  15th,  1522,  to  October  15th,  1524.  The  last 
sixteen  pages  contain  Alvarado's  and  Godoy's  reports 
to  Cortes. 

Birect  references!  f  Panzer,  Annalei  Typcgr.,  V^ol.  x,  page  2g,  No.  6.  b. 
BiHiollieca  Hehtriana,  Part  vii,  No.  1884. 
Bibli-^lheca  GrtriTilliana,  page  166. 
B'diliotheca  Biotvniana,  page   14,  No.  44. 
Sie-vens'  j^merican  Bibliographer,  page  85. 
Ternaux,  No.  34. 
Brunet,  Vol.  II,  col.  311. 


*  Anglice !  The  fourth  relation  which     Generr.  tor  His  Majesty  in  New  Spain  of 
Fernanda  Cortes,  Governor  and  Captain-     the   Oceanic   Sea,  sent  to  the  very  high 


ri 


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130.    "  CLAVDii    PTOLEMAEi  Gcographicac  ennara-    1525* 

tionis    Libri    odlo     Bilibaldo    Pirckeymero    interprete.  — 

Annotationes  Joannis  de  Regiomonte  in  errores  com- 
miflbs  a  Jacobo  Angelo  in  tranflatione  fua.  In  fine  : 
Argent  or  agi  {sic)  Johannes  Grieningerus,  communions  Jo- 
hannis  Koberger  impenfis  excudebat  Anno  a  Chrifti  Nativi- 
tate.  M.DXXV.  Tertio  Kal'  Apriles.  fol.'"  (82  gez.  u. 
14  ungez.  BU.  m.  50  Tabulae  geographicae  in  Holzchn.') 
"  Containing  a  map  of  part  of  America,  dated  1522'." 


I 


137,     rARTHEMA-DI AS-- Above  a  large  vignette: 

Jtiiierario  tie  Hutiouicoiliic  iJtlartijcma  liolognefe 
ttcHo  iEsijtto,  nrUa  S>u  ||  ria,  ncUa  Gratia  trcfma, 
r  jFelicc,neUa  lletfia  rllncUa  Jtttiia,r  ndla  35ti)i> 
opia.  Ea  fetic,  el  biuere,  r  coftumi  ijellc  prefate 
^rouincie.  C  iSt  al  prcfcute  ||  agioiitoui  alcunc 
Jfole  ttouamente  rittouate. 

Colophon  : 

C  ImprefTo  in  Venetia  Nellano  della 
In  II  carnatione  del  noftro  Signore  lefu  || 
Chrifto  del.  M.D.XXVI.  Adi.  XVI.  Aprile. 
Regnando  Lo  Inclito  ||  Principe  An/drea 
Griti  II  ^. 

*^*  Sm.  8vo;   title  one  leaf  (printed  in  red  and  black)  -|-  one  hun- 
dred and  one  unnumbered  leaves,  including  the  index. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Brooklyn.) 


1526. 


and  mighty  King  of  Spain  our  Lord  ; 
in  which  are  other  letters  and  relations 
which  Captains  Peter  de  Alvarado  and 
Richard  Godoy  sent  to  the  said  Cap- 
tain Fernando  Cortes.  The  present  Epis- 
tolary Relation  was  printed  in  the  Im- 
perial City  of  Toledo  by  Caspar  de  Avila. 
Finished  October  20th,  A.  D.  1525. 


'  Panzer,  Annates  Typogr.,  Vol.  vi,  p. 
107,  No.  698. 

'  HoFrMAN^;  Lexicon,  Vol.  iii,  p.  319. 

'  Aspinwall  Catalogue,  No.  6.  (Three 
thousand  out  of  three  thousand  five  hun- 
dred volumes,  which  composed  this  collec- 
tion, were  destroyed  by  fire  in  New  York, 
Sept.  iSth,  1864.) 


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1520.  138.     CORTES  (FERNANDO)— Within  a  narrow  border,  and  be- 
J—  lojff  a  large  escutcheon  of  Spain,  filling  one  half  of  the  page  : 

Ea  parta  relacia  que  jFernatro  corteg  go  II  ucr= 
naUor  g  capita  general  por  fumageftatrllenla  nueua 
iSfpaiia  Uelmar  oceano  Mo  al  ||  mug  alto  r  mug 
potentiffimo  inuictiffimo  ||  Mor  tron  ittarlos  em= 
peratrot  femper  agufto  5  reg  ^fpanailmo  fenor, 
enla  qual  eftan  otras  cartas  g  relacioneis  que-|| 
log  capitancis  peTiro  tre  aluaralio  e  Btego  gotiog 
emtia  ||  ron  al  tiicijo  capitan  jfernartro  cortes.  || 

Colophon : 

jFue  imprenffa  la  prefente  carta  trere||lacia  Irelas 
JntJiaia :  enla  metropoUtana  ||  ciutrati  tiz  tlalencia 
por  (Seor  ||  ge  coftilla  Ecatose  a  xii.  ||  tiiass  fil  tncs 
Ue  Ju  II  lio  afto  iie  ||  mil.  tr.xxbj.  ^  aftos.t 


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Folio,  twenty-six  unnumbered  leaves,  including  the  title, 
on  the  verso  of  which  the  text  begins ;  double  columns ; 
b  in  eights. 

(Providence  Private  Library.     Only  copy  known.) 


Second  edition  of  D  (No.  135). 


11: 


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Dirtct  reftrencet :  f  Bibliotheca  Browniana,  page  14,  No.  47. 
<  Stevens'  American  Bibliographer,  page  85. 
(  Br 


Srunit,  Vol.  II,  col.  312. 


*  We  find  in  Graesse  (Vol.  Iii,  p.  93) 
on  the  authority  ot'one  of  the  Butsch  cata- 
logues, "  Glareanus,  Hen.  Loritus — De 
peographia  liber  i.  Basil.  1526.  in  4°." 
This  edition  ot'  1526  is  not  mentioned  in 
any  other  work,  nor  have  we  yet  succeeded 
in  finding  it  in  any  collection.  The  edition 
of  1527  {infra)  is  considered  the  first; 
K.LOSS  calls  (Catalogue  No.  1727)  that  of 


1 528  {infra)  "  Ed.  ii,"  while  the  Athenai 
Rauricae  (p.  251)  says  of  a  Franckfort  edi- 
tion of  1533  "ab  ipso  auctore  tertio  recog- 
nitus." 

f  Anglice  :  The  present  Epistolary  Re- 
lation about  the  Indies  was  printed  in 
the  metropolitan  city  of  Valencia  by 
George  Costilla,  and  finished  July  nth. 
1526.     The  rest  as  in  D. 


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139.     oyiEDO  (G.  F.  DE)— Under   the    Imperial    coat-of-arms     IC26. 

with  the  double-headed  eagle,  and  within  a  border :  _ 


OlCir^o  l»r  Id  natural  l)i) 
i0t0rta  W  la0  ^nt>iad. 
c  C^n  |)rmledt0  b<r  la 
3.  C  C  |H. 

f/W^  /wu  //V7^j  of  the  verso  of  the  title-page: 

S^Umario  Uela  natural  g  general  ||  iftoria  irclag 
Jntriasi.    que    efcriuio  (©6falo  jTemaiief  lie 
©uiell  .... 

Colophon : 

C  m  pfente  tratatio  in  ||  titulatro  ©uieTro  tit  la 
natural  ijijftoria  ||  B  las  intJias  fe  imprimio  a  coftas 
tiel  aulltor  OTofalo  jFemauej  Xtt  ©uietro  al's  trell 
JKalUes.  ^ox  intiuftria  ire  maeftre  iie||ma  tie 
petras :  r  fe  aeato  en  la  ciiitiaH  tie  ||  Coletio  a.  xb. 
tiias  Hel  tnes  tie  ll^elirero.  Iltie.  a.SJ.rxbj.  afiosj. 

^*^  Folio,   fifty-two  numbered  leaves  +  two  unnumbered    leaves 
for  part  of  the  index  ;  five  woodcuts. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York,  Providence,  Washington,  and 
Harvard  Coll.  Libr.) 

Gonzalo  Fernandez  de  Oviedo  y  Valdes  was  born 
at  Madrid,  probably  in  August,  1478',  of  an  aristocratic 
family,  and  at  the  age  of  thirteen  received  ihe  appoint- 

'  The  words  which  we  here  underscore  the  original  MS.  of  Oviedo's  Balallas  y 
"  aunquc  he  setenta  annos  [in  1 548  J,  e  !os  S^uinjuagenas,  preserved  in  the  Libr.  of  the 
comfli  en  el  met  de  agoite,"  are  effaced  in     Real  Acad,  de  la  Historia,  in  Madrid. 


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I  C26.  merit  of  wozo  de  cdmara^  (a  kind  of  page),  to  Prince 
John'.  He  soon  afterwards  witnessed  at  Granada,  as 
one  of  the  Court,  the  reception  extended  to  Columbus 
by  Ferdinand  and  Isabella  on  his  return  in  1493  from 
the  newly  rediscovered  worlds  After  taking  a  part  in 
the  Italian  campaigns',  he  married,  in  1502,  Margarita 
de  Vergara,  "  una  de  las  mas  hermosas  mugeres  que  ovo 
en  su  tiempo  en  el  reino  de  Toledo'." 

In  1 512  he  was  deputed  to  act  as  secretary  to  Gon- 
zalvo  de  Cordova ;  but  he  soon  afterwards  determined 
to  repair  to  the  Indies,  for  the  purpose  of  retrieving  his 
fortune^,  or  for  a  very  different  reason,  if  we  are  to 
believe  the  statement  made  by  the  unreliable  De  Pauw', 
on  the  authority  of  the  trustworthy  Fallopius.  He 
joined  the  expedition  of  Pedrarias  Davila,  not  in  the 
capacity  of  "  Inspecteur  gt  leral  du  Commercel"  or  of 
"  Directeur  des  mines  de  Saint-Domingue^,"  but  as  a 
supervisor  of  gold-smeltings'°;  and  sailed  to  the  new 
World  for  the  first  time,  from  San  Lucar  de  B.,  April 
11th,  1514".  He  filled  abroad  several  high  positions, 
such  as  Governor  of  the  Province  of  Carthagena,  and 
First  Alderman  {Adelante  Regidor)  of  Darien,  in  con- 
junction, as  it  seems,  with  his  office  of  supervisor  {f^ee- 
dor),  which  he  resigned  only  in  I532'S  when  he  was 
appointed  Chief  Chronicler  of  the  Indies  {Cronista  gen- 
eral de  Indias).  Oviedo  resided  on  this  continent  up- 
wards of  thirty-four  years',  and  crossed  the  Atlantic 
not  less  than  twelve  times,  chiefly  on  missions  to  lay 
the  grievances  of  the  colonies,  or  his  own,  before  the 
Spanish   Court.      He   returned   to   Spain    for  the   last 


fi) 


'  De  Frankenau,  i/M/.  Hispan.,  p.  174. 

*  Baena,  Hijos  de  Madrid f    Madrid,  4 
v(j1s.,  4to,  1789-91.  Vol.  II,  p.  354, 

*  Oviedo,  Historia  Gen.  y  Nat.  de  In- 
i/mi,  lib;  1 1,  cap.  VII,  p.  29  (Madrid  reprint). 

"  liluinquagenas,  in   de   los  Rios'  intro- 
duction p.  x.X,  note. 

*  "  ganoso  de  reponer  su  malparada  ha- 
cienda," DE  LOS  Rios,  lac.  cit. 


'  Rtcli.  iur  les  Amiricains,  Vol.  I,  p.  21. 

"  Mdreri,  Vol.   VI,  p.  97  of  letter  O. 

"  Teknaux,  Bihliotheque  Amiricaiiie, 
N  ..  35. 

"•  "  Veedor  de  las  Fundaciones  de  Oro." 
Ov:ed(),  Ioc.  cit..  Vol.  Ill,  p.  4, 

"  De  los  Rios,  Ioc.  cit.,  p.  xxii. 

"  Letter  of  Oviedo,  apud  01  los  Rids, 
Ioc.  cit.,  p.  Lvm,  note. 


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time  in  June,  1556,  and  died  in  the  summer  of  ICC7,     I  C26. 

at  Valladolid.  ^ 

Navarrete",  Prescotf*  and  Mr.  Ticknor"  have  given 
an  estimate  of  Oviedo's  works  and  character.  The  fol- 
lowing, from  Las  Casas,  is  not  without  originality  : 
"  Puesto  que  a  la  historia  de  Oviedo  llevana  en  la 
frente  escrito  como  su  autor  habia  sido  conquistador, 
robador  y  matador  de  los  Indios,  y  haber  echado  en  las 
niinas  gentes  dellos,  en  las  cuales  perecieron  ;  y  enemigo 
cruel  dellos  como  se  dira  y  el  mismo  la  confiera,  a!  me- 
nos  entre  los  prudentes  y  cristianos  enervos  poco  credito 
y  auctoridad  en  historia  tuviera'^." 

Oviedo  was  a  prolific  writer,  but  the  first  of  his  works 
which  interests  us  is  the  present  No.  139.  It  is  not 
a  "Summary  of  the  Spanish  Conquests  in  the  New 
World'',"  or  the  first  edition  of  the  Historia  General y 
Natural  de  las  Indias,  published  in  1535  (see  infra)  ^  but 
a  totally  different  work,  which  may  have  served  as  a 
model  for  the  useful  compilations  of  Acosta,  Nierem- 
berg  and  Francisco  Hernandez.  We  have  the  original 
edition  before  us,  but  beg  leave  to  insert  the  following 
analysis,  which  we  copy  from  the  extremely  valuable 
introduction  added  by  SeRor  D.  J.  Amador  de  los 
Rios  to  the  late  reprint  of  Oviedo's  chief  work'^: 

"  Este  repertorio,  dirigido  principalmente  a  dar  a  conocer  al  Em- 
perador  las  cosas  de  America,  se  halla  distribuido  en  ochenta  y  seis 
capitulos,  en  los  cuales,  despues  de  tratar  de  la  navegacion  de  Espana 
a  las  Antillas  y  de  los  naturales  de  estas  islas,  asi  como  de  sus  cos- 
tumbres  y  manjares,  pasa  Oviedo  a  describir  los  indios  de  la  Tierra- 
Firme,  bosquejando  tambien  sus  ritos,  costumbres  y  ceremonias,  y 
exponiendo  las  peregrinas  noticias  que  habia  recogido  sobre  los  ani- 


"  CoUccion,  Vol  i,  introd.  p.  i.xxvr. 
"  Hist,  of  Ferdinand  and  Isabella,  Vol. 
1,  p.  112. 

'"  Hist,  of  Spanish  Literature,  Vol.  ir, 

P-  34- 

"  "Oviedo  should  have  written  at  the 
head  of  his  history  :  This  book  was  written 
by  a  conqueror,  robber  and  murderer  of  the 


Indians,  whole  populations  of  whom  he 
consigned  to  the  mines,  where  they  per- 
ished," &c. 

— Gen.  Hist,  de  las  Tndias,  MS.  cap. 
xxill. 

"  Historia  General  y  Natural  de  las 
Indias.  Publicala  la  Real  Academia  de 
la  Historia,  cotejada  con  el  codice  original  i 


23 


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Bibliotheca  Americana. 


I  ir2u<  males,  aves  e  insectos,  arboles,  plantas  y  yerbas  de  tan  distantes 
^_^__^__  regioncs.  Terminada  esta  parte,  que  tanto  interes  ofrecia  entonces  a 
las  ciencias  zoologica  y  botanica,  menciona  Oviedo  las  minas  de  oro 
de  la  Tierra-Firme,  y  mostrandose  entendido  en  el  laboreo  de  ellas, 
pondera  sus  riquezas,  describiendo,  por  ultimo,  la  pesqueria  no  menos 
envidiable  de  las  perlas,  que  tanto  abundaban  en  aquellos  mares.  El 
Sumario  de  la  Natural  "Historia  acaba  mostrando  el  camino  de  la  mar 
del  Sur,  y  descubriendo  al  Cesar  la  facilidad  de  acudir  por  el  estrecho 
de  Magallanes  al  comercio  y  contratacion  de  las  Malucas." 

This  work  has  been  republished  by  Barcia'*"  Ramu- 
sio  gave  an  Italian  version'',  and  there  is  a  kind  of  Sum- 
mary in  Purchas".  We  have  been  unable  to  find  the 
translation  into  Latin  by  Chauveton,  mentioned  by 
Seiior  de  los  Rios.  We  think  it  erroneous,  and  prob- 
ably a  misapprehension  of  the  Latin  Benzoni.  The 
"editio  princeps"  discovered  in  the  Leipsic  University, 
and  mentioned  by  Humboldt",  is  only  the  edition  of 
1547  (see  infra). 

The  copy  before  us,  like  all  those  of  Oviedo's  works 
printed  in  his  lifetime,  which  we  have  seen,  bears  on  the 
title-page  the  autograph  of  the  author. 

Historians  are  apt  to  overlook  incidents,  which, 
although  unnecessary  to  enable  the  reader  to  obtain  a 
full  view  of  the  field  which  they  intend  to  depict,  acquire 
nevertheless  a  certain  importance  when  we  wish  to 
obtain  an  insight  into  motives  and  personal  characteris- 
tics. This  is  the  reason  why  correspondances,  private 
memoirs,  diaries,  are  so  eagerly  sought  by  those  who 
are  anxious  to  know  men  as  well  as  events.  There  are 
two  precious  collections  of  the  kind,  composed  by 
Oviedo,  but  which  never  were  printed.     The  first  is  : 

Batallas  y  ^inquagenas^  escriptas  por  el  capitan  Gon^alo 
Fernandez  de  Oviedo^  criado  del  prin(ipe  don  Johan,  hijo 
de  los  Reyes  Catholicos,  y  coronista  mayor  de  las  Indias,  del 
Emperador  Carlos  V  (iffo)"' 

Madrid,   4   vnl^  ,    fol.,    1851-55.       Page  "  Pi/grimts,  Part  11,  Lib.  v,  p.  970,  sj. 

r         XXSViil(i.  f        .xxvitl.)  "  ExamcH    Critique,  Vol.   111,   p.    283, 

"  Histtriadorc!  primilivos,  Vol.  I,  70  pp.  note. 

"  Raccolta,  Vol.  Ill,  fol.  44-74.  "  De  los  Rios,  /«.  cit.,  p.  .xciii. 


Bibliotheca   Americana.  259 

It  is  a  work  which  purports  to  transmit  to  posterity    IC26. 

the  heroic  deeds  of  his  contemporaries.  _,_ss_99= 

The  other  bears  the  following  title : 

Las  ^inquagenas  de  los  generosos  e  illustres  'e  no  menos 
famosos  reyes,  prin^ipes,  duques,  marqueses  y  condes  e  cabal- 
leros  e  persona'  notables  de  Espana  :  que  escribio  el  capitan 
Fernandez  de  Oviedo  y  V aides,  Alcayde  de  Sus  Magestades 
de  la  fortale^a  de  la  cibdad  e  puerto  de  Sancto  Domingo  de 
la  Isla  Espanola,  coronista  de  las  Indias,  islas  e  Tierra- 
Firme  del  Mar  O^eano,  vepno  e  regidor  desta  cibdad,  'e 
natural  de  la  muy  noble  e  leal  villa  de  Madrid.  Fu'e  esta 
obra  desde  las  Indias  enviada  e  presentada  al  Serenissimo 
Principe  D.  Felipe,  nuestro  Senor^^  \j-SSS~^SS^'\' 

This  aims  at  "  memorar  los  famosos  varones  de  nues- 
tra  Espana,  tanto  en  armas  como  en  letras  y  virtudes." 

We  know  these  two  works  solely  from  the  excellent 
analysis  given  by  Clemencin^*,  and  which  is  the  fullest, 
if  not  the  only  reliable  one.  We  trust  that  the  Real 
Academia  de  la  Historia,  which  has  already  done  so 
much  for  Oviedo,  will  yet  publish  these  interesting  dia- 
logues. 


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Direct  refcrenctt  i 


Leon  Pinilo,  Epitome,  page  127. 

Meusel,  Bibliotheca  Historica,  Vol.  X,  Part  11,  page  316. 

Panzer,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  X,  page  19,  No.  76. 

Rich,  No.  6. 

TiRNAUx,  No.  35. 

Ebert.  No.  15603. 

Brunet,  Vol.  IV,  col.  299. 

Raetzel  Catalogue,  No.  916 

Butsch  Catalogue,  page  26,  No.  394. 

Bibliotheca  Biotuniana,  page   14,  No.  46. 


"  Ternaux,  introd,  to  Oviedo's  His- 

toire  du  Nicaragua,  in  Recueil,  1840. 

"  Mem.  de  la  Acad,  de  H'.itoria  f  Mad- 
rid, Vol.  VI,  Illust.  10. 

There  must  be  a  copy  of  the  MS. 
Quinjuagenas  in  Boston,  as  Mr.  Ticknor 
acknowledges   his   obligation    to    Prescott 


for  the  loan  of  it ;  but  when  last  in  Bos- 
ton we  vainly  endeavored  to  find  the  MS., 
either  in  that  city  or  in  the  Harvard  Coll. 
Libr.,  to  which  Prescott  bequeathed  the 
works  which  he  consulted  for  his  Hiitory  of 
Ferdinand  and  Isabella.  See  a  curious  note 
in  Dk  los  Riob'  introduction,  p.  xcit. 


1     I 


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1527.  140.     LA  SALLE  (ANT.  DE)-1L^   ^;i\^'t^t   ^iSVi  \\  UtU 

-  lemft  Jmprimee  II  a  i^atiss  iLaquelle  fait  ||  mention 

tre  tou»  less  pagst  )iu  montei  et  tiu  pai)j3  tir  II  la  brlU 
ntille.  Euec  la  figure  pour  allec  aumont  II  tie  la 
tiicte  fitille.  IBt  aufft  la  figure  tie  la  met  r  tie  ||  la 
terreiauec  plufieur»  i)elle»  remonftrances. 

IBt  fe  bentient  a  l^wcx^  par  ili)ilippe  He  ^oir  II 
Melieur  iure  en  luniberfite  tie  Paris  1  tiemourantJ  en 
la  grSt  rue  ^ainct  Jacques  a  Ufeigne  tie  la  l^o^e  II 
blanche  eouronnee. 

("  a  la  fin  du  60*  f. :  Cy  finis t  ce  present  Hare  nouueUement  jmprimt 
in  la  Rue  Sainct  iacques,  a  lenseigne  de  la  Rose  blanche  eouronnee  et  fut 
acbeue  le  xiij  tour  de  mars  mil  cinq  centz  xxvij." — Brunet.) 


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*^*  410,  Goth,  a  2  colonnes  fig.  en  bois  ["  pet.  in-fol.  goth.  dc 
Ix  ff.  chiiFr.  et  2  fF.,  pour  la  table  d's  chapitres  et  la  marque 
de  I'imprimeur,  litre  rouge  et  noir.  On  trouve  dans  I'intc- 
rieur  (ff.  15  et  27)  ou  a  la  fin,  deux  cartes  gravees  en  bois,  et 
pliees,  I'une  du  mont  de  la  Sibylle  et  I'autre  representant  la 
mappemonde." — Brunet'.] 

(Ste.  Genevieve  Libr.,  Paris'.) 

"  La  Salade  est  un  ouvrage  des  plus  curieux  en  dehors  de  la  partie 
geographique,  mais  le  chapitre  consacre  a  la  Geographie  est  bien  sur- 
prenant  en  lui-meme  ;  il  signale  a  deux  reprises  diverses  le  Greenland. 
II  y  a  mieux,  lorsque  il  etablit  certaines  generalites  sur  ces  terres  du 
Nord,  il  semble  qu'un  bruit  vague  lui  apporte  certaines  efBuves  faisant 
pressentir  la  demi-civilisation  des  terres  americaines." 

(M.  Ferdinand  Denis.) 

The  chapter  alluded  to  by  M.  Denis,  contains  (verso 
of  leaf  xxviii),  the  following  passage  : 

i^ortoeglje  eft  une  grantie  region  affife  tieffouts 
tie  pol  Entarctique.    Eulcuns  aftrologues  ont  bne 


*  There   is   an  edition,  with  privilege     Brunet,  Vol.   in,  col.   854,   and   Solar 
dated   1 511   (i.  t.   15x1  new  st)le).     See     Catalogue,  p.  404,  No.  1473. 


l\ 


Bibliotheca  /fmericana.  l6i 

partie  at  ctUt  ilegion  tnife  \)ox»  tim  cUmatt  acaufe  1527. 
UOEt  ne0  aprcs  et  (ongues  ftotliureis  qui  g  font. — ^^"^ 
ISn  if  tilt  Hegion  font  Uiuetfes  mersi.  Ea  eft  la 
mer  longellec  que  on  Diet  IHare  eong^Ilatum.  JI  s  a 
u\if  ifle  nommee  ifiantiou  font  lt»  pagiEt  nommeis 
(BronneUont  et  unimaret  [ ?]  on  ^  S^^^t  quantite 
He  oucis  qui  fot  tons  tlas. 

Antoine  de  La  Sale,  one  of  the  wittiest  of  French 
writers,  lived  between  the  years  1398  and  1461.  The 
present  work,  which  was  composed  for  his  pupil  John 
of  Anjou,  Duke  of  Calabria,  seems  to  have  been  written 
between  1438  and  1447',  and  places  its  facetious  author  * 
side  by  side  with  Adam  of  Bremen'*,  Ordericus  Vitallis', 
Torfi^  Rafn^  and  Karl  Wilhelm^ 


^\ 


Direct  references : 


{■ 


La  Valliere  Catalogue,  No.  4573. 
BivNtT,  Vol.  III.  col.  853. 
GiAiui,  Vol.  IV,  page  1 11. 


1 4. 1.  FRIES  (LAURENT)—"  Underwcifung  vnd  vflle- 
gunge  der  Cartha  Marina  oder  die  mercarten  darin 
man  fehen  mag,  wa  einer  in  d  welt  fey,  und  wa  ein 
ytlich  Land,  Waffer  und  Stet  ligen,  Strafib.  Grieninger 
(1527.  in-fol.  Av.  fig.  en  bois)." 

(Graesse'.) 


*  Adbrt,  Bulletin  Ju  Boujuiniue,  for 
Jan.  1859,  p.  5. 

'  Hislori^e  ecclesiaiticit  ecclei.  Hamburg. 
et  Bremensis.  vicinorumjue  locor.  leftent., 
ah  anno  788,  ad  1076,  lib.  IV;  Copen- 
hagen, 4to,  1579;  Leyden,  410,  1595; 
Helmstaedt,  410,  4670. 

*  Hiuoriie  ecclesiaiticit  libri  tredecim ; 
Paris,  5  vols..  8vo,  1840-45. 

*  Grcenlandia  yltitijua  ;  Copenhagen, 
Svo,  1706;  and   Hiitcria  Vinlaitdia  ami- 


fua,  seu  partis  America  Septtntrionalis  j 
Copenhagen,  8vo,  1705, 

'  Antijvitates  Americana  siue  scriptorei 
itplentrionales  rerum  ante-Cotumbianarum 
in  America  i  Copenhagen,  4to,  1837. 

*  Island,  Hvitramannaland,  Gronland 
und  yinland  oder  der  Normiinner  Leben 
auf  Island  und  dcren  Fahrlen  nach  Amerik, 
schon  uber  500  y.  vor  Columbus  {  Heidel- 
berg, 8vo,  1842. 

'    Trisor,  Vol.  II,  p.  635. 


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i62  Bibliotheca    Americana. 

I  C27.  142.    LORITZ  OR   GLjinEANU&—lVitbin  a  wide  border.- 

D.  HEN||rici  glareani||poetae  lavreaH 

TI    DE    GE0GRA||PHIA    LIBER  ||  VNVS.  ||        ^ 
^   BASILEAE,    ANN0||M.D.XXVII.1| 
Colophon : 
BASILEAE,       ANNO   ||    M.D.XXVII.       EXCVDEBAT 

JOANNES    FA  11  HER    EMMEVS    IVLIACENSIS.  ||* 


ill' 


*^*  Sm.  4to  ;  title  one  leaf  +  thirty-four  numbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

"  II  n'y  a  rien  de  plus  interessant  pour  I'histoire  des  grandes 
decouvertes  geographiques  des  15*  et  16*  siecles,  que  des  uivrc  les 
recits  des  cosmographes  contemporains  qui  nous  font  connaitre  la 
maniere  dont  la  connaissance  de  ces  decouvertes  s'est  repandue  parmi 
les  peuples  europeens.  On  salt  qu'il  fallut  assez  longtemps  pour 
populariser  la  connaissance  du  Nouveau  Continent,  et  meme  Henri 
Loritus  Glareanus,  I'un  des  plus  celebres  cosmographes  du  moyen  age, 
quoique  la  premiere  edition  de  sa  geographic  dont  nous  venons  de 
donner  le  tltre,  ait  paru  plus  de  trente  ans  apres  sa  decouverte,  ne 
fait  qu'une  mention  passagere  de  I'Amerique,  ce  qui  prouve  le  peu 
de  connaissance  qu'il  en  a  eu.  Dans  le  dernier  chapitre  [Recto  of 
leaf  35],  en  parlant  des  regions  non  decrites  par  Ptolemee,  il  dit  entr'- 
autres :  '  Porro  ad  occidentem  terra  eft,  quam  Americam  uocant, 
longitudine  octoginta  ferme  graduum.  Du<e  infuls  Spagnolla  et 
Il'abella  :  qux  quide  regiones  lecundum  littora  ab  Hifpanis  luftratx 
funt,  Columbo  Genuenfi,  et  Americo  Vefputio  eius  navigationis  duci- 
bus.  Sunt  qui  putent  tempore  Cjefaris  Augufti  earn  terram  fuifle 
notam,  atque  ;  Marone,  lib.  6.  [759-7]  Aene.  de  ea  haec  protulifle  car- 
mina: 

"•  lacet  extra  fydera  tellus. 

Extra  anni  folifque  uias,  ubi  coelifer  Atlas 
Axem  humero  torquet,  ftellis  ardentibus  aptum. 

" '  Hoc  de  Aethiopia  Maurorum  Seruius  intellexit.  Landinus  aute  nul- 
1am  Aethiopiam  extra  zodiacum  iacere  contendit.  Itaque  ipfe  exponit 
extra,  id  eft,  pene  extra.  Porro  Donatus  folem  pro  die,  annum  pro 
nocte  pofitum  ait.     Nos  rem  incertam  indicio  lectoris  relinquimus'.'  " 

(Tromil'.) 


*  AnglUi :  One  book  on  geography  by  '  "  Farther    towards    the    west,    lies    a 

Henry   Glareanus,    poet   laureate.     Basle,     country   called    America,    the    length    of 
executed  by  John  Faber,  1517.  which  is  about  eighty  degrees.     There  are 


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Although  Henry  Loritz  of  Claris  when  a  young  man    I  527. 

held  the  chair  of  Mathematics  in  the  University  "^ 
Basle,  and  wrote  two  works  on  strictly  scientific  subjects 
(the  above  and  his  De  Ponderibiis  et  Mensuris\  not  to 
speak  of  the  Comment,  in  Arithmet.  et  Music.  Boethii*)^ 
he  scarcely  deserves  the  name  of  "  celebre  cosmographe." 
Born  in  1488',  he  was  better  known  as  a  poet  who  sang 
his  verses,  as  a  musician  who  played  on  several  instru- 
ments and  wrote  a  great  deal  on  the  subject  of  music, 
as  one  of  the  greatest  literary  critics  of  his  day,  as  a 
reformer,  as  the  friend  of  Erasmus,  but  especially  as  the 
precursor  of  Beaufort  and  Niebuh/'in  those  investiga- 
tions which  have  shown  the  unreliable  character  of  the 
Latin  historians,  at  least  as  regards  the  origin  and  early 
history  of  Rome.  He  held  for  several  years  the  pro- 
fessorship of  Belles-Lettres  in  the  college  of  France 
then,  and  ever  since  so  famous ;  and  died  at  Friburg 
in  1563.  "  Vossius  dit  que  c'etait  un  homme  univer- 
sellement  savant."^ 


Dirtct  references : 


Panzer,  Anrtalet  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  vi,  page  261. 

Bihiiolheca  Tholtiana,  Vol.  v,  page  119. 

Bihiiotheca  Barlotviana,  page  12. 

D'AvizAC,  Projections  Gcograpkiijues,  page  68. 

Libri  Catalogue  for   1861,  No.  324,  (describes  a  cop>   omiaining 

Loritz'  own  annotations  and  autograph). 
Brunet,  Vol.  11,  col.  1624.. 
Graessz,  Vol.  Ill,  page  93. 


two  islands,  Spagnolla  and  Isabella.  Those 
countries  have  been  visited  along  the  coasts 
bv  the  Spaniards,  Columbo  of  Genoa  and 
Anierico  Vesputio  being  the  leaders  of  the 
navigation.  There  are  people  who  believe 
that  in  the  times  of  C.-esar  Augustus  that 
country  was  known,  and  that  Virgil  in  the 
Vlth  book,  verses  795-97  of  the  /Eneid, 
wrote  the  following  lines  concerning  the 
same:  'Their  land  lies  without  the  signs 
[of  the  Zodiac],  beyond  the  Sun's  annual 
course,  where  Atlas,  supporting  heaven  on 
his  shoulders,  turns  the  axle  studded  with 
flaming  stars."  Servius  understood  this 
of  the   Morish   Ethiopia;    but    Lar.dinui 


declares  that  there  is  no  Ethiopia  Ifing 
beyond  the  Zodiac.  Therefore  he  himself 
explains  'beyond,'  as  meaning  'almost  be- 
yond.' Besides,  Donatus  says  that  'Sun' 
stands  for  'day,'  and  'yesr'  for  'night.' 
We  leave  this  uncertain  matter  to  the 
judgment  of  the  reader." 

■  Biblioiiijue  Amiricaitie,  p.  3,  No.  3. 

'  Basle,  fol.,  1550. 

*  Basle,  4to,  1570. 

'  Athenae  Rauricae;   Basle,  Sto,  1778, 
p.  247,  jy. 

•  MicHiELtT,  Histoire  Romaime,  Vol.  I, 
p.  2. 

'  af.BAiLLtT,  yugcmentSfV.  ",  p.  303. 


II  I 


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264  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1528.      143.     LoaiTZ  OR   GLARB^NUS-fVitbin  a  widt  border: 

HENRICI||c;lareani,  poET-ii  lav||reati 
DE  geo(;ra-||  phia   liber   vnvs,  ab  ipso  av- 

THORE  II  JAM     RECOGNITVS.  ||  BASILEAE.  || 

Veno  of  iignaturt  A  2  ; 

Bafiles  ex  Collegio  no-  ||  ftro.  Anno  a 
natali  Chrifti,||  M.D.XXVII. 

Colophon  : 
BASILEAE   .   ANNO  ||  M  .  D  .  XXVIII  .  ||    EXCVDE- 
BAT    lOANNES    FA-||BER    EMMEVS    IVLIACENSIS.  || 

*^*  Sm.  410,  thirty-two  numbered  leaves.  In  the  copy  before  us, 
folios  31  and  32  are  printed  on  one  side  only,  and  these  blank 
pages  are  those  which  should  contain  the  passages  mentioned 
in  the  edition  of  1527  (supra  No.  142). 

(Boston  Athen.  Library.) 

Dirtct  rtftrencti :  I    Hanzir,  Annalts  Typogr.,  Vol.  vi,  page  »66. 
J.   Navarrete,  Ce/eccion,  page  cxxvi. 
I   Kloss  Catalogue,  page  lij,  No.  17*7, 
Hiitorical  Nuggeli.  No.  334. 

144..     COPPO  DA  ISOLA  (PETER)— Above  ii  woodcut  represent- 
ing the  Sun,  Moon  and  Earth : 

PORTOLANO. 

Colophon : 

Stampata  in  Venetia   per  Augufti/ 1|  no 
di  Bindoni.  1528.  Adi.  14.  de  Marzo.|| 

*^*  Extremely  small  4to  (2.I  by  3!  inches),  signatures  A  to  F  in 
fours,  making  twenty-four  leaves,  the  verso  of  the  last  of  which 
is  blank,  whilst  the  recto  contains  a  printer's  monogram,  repre- 
senting a  cross  and  an  R,  with  the  words  :  Cum  gratia.  Pre- 
ceding the  title,  there  is  an  oval  map  of  the  world  filling 
two  pages,  upon  which  appear  Cuba,  lamaiqua,  Spa^nuolla, 
modo  nouo.  See.     On  the  reverse  of  the  title  another  map. 

(British  Museum.) 


I 


Bibliotheca  /Imericana. 


265 


The  passage  concerning  Columbus,  first  made  known    I  C28. 
by  Morelli',  is  on  the  verso  of  F.  j,  and  as  follows: 

Chriftopholo  colubo  zcouefe  ncl.  1492.II 
troiio  nauegado  uerfo  poncnte  mo/  || 
ifole  &  cofe  noue.  ma  prima  fe  troue  lc|| 
ifole  gorgone  hcfperide  iunonia  la  pio  || 
uiofia  la  caurera  la  planaria  la  neuofia 
ca  11  naria  alincotro  dela  barbaria  da  pol- 
ar II  go  1  mar  foiio  ifole  uetura  colubo 
brajlzil  caurera  ouo  porto  fanto  m^dcra 
&  II  certe  ifole  dite  dcferte  &  altre  dite 
falua  11  dege.  Lanceloto  columbo.  dapoi 
oltra  II  affai  p  poncte  el  dito  chrillopholo 
tro  11  uo  lifola  fpagnola  iamaique  cuba  le 
ifo  II  le  de  icanibali.  la  terra  paria  ouer 
mon  11  do  nouo  &  molte  altre  ifole.  la 
fpagno  II  la  e  de  longeza  de  m.  800.  larga. 
m.  330.  II  la  cuba  difta  de  la  fpagnola. 
mia.  70.  nel  H  puar  che  fece  el  colubo 
in  uedar  fe  cu-  1|  ba  era  ifola  ouer.  terra 
ferma  el  uete  pu  |1  raflai  ifole.  &  pofe  nome 
nauigando  alajlriuerade  cuba  femp.  1300. 
m.  in  ql  noui  |1  gar  a  piu  de.  700.  ifole. 
hauedone  pafl'a-  ||  te  piu  de.  3000.  dapoi 
el  colobo  li  fpa/ 1|  gnoli  nauigari  nauegado 

'  Ltttera  raristima,  p.  63. 

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1528.  oltra  el  cano  ||  bona  fperaza  perueueno 
neluidia  a  co-||locut  8c  andorono  piu  oltra 
fine  nelc  ||  extreme  parte  de  lindia.  || 

Direct  rrfeiences!  f  MoRr.LLi,  Operette,  Vol.  i,  page  309. 
\  Bibliotheca  Grenvil/iana,  — . 
(  Nolet  on  Columbus,  page  56. 


!f 


I4.5*     BORDONE  (BENEDIcry-Within  a  wide,  ornamented  border : 

LIBRO  DI  BENE-llDETTo  bordone  || 
Nel  qual  fi  ragiona  de  tutte  I'lfole  del 
mon-||do  con  li  lor  nomi  antichi  &  mod- 
erni,||hiftorie,  fauole,  &  modi  del  loro  ui|| 
uere,  &  in  qua'l  parte  del  mail  re  ftanno, 
&  in  qual  pa|lrallelo  &  clima||giacciono.||* 
•4  II  CON  iL  BREVE  DI  PAPA||Leone.  Et  gra- 
tia &  priuilegio  dellal|llluftriirima  Signoria 
com'llin  quelli  appare.|||^  M.D.XXVIII. 

Colophon  : 

€  ImprefTe  in  Venegia  per  Nicolo  d'Arif- 
totile,  detto  Zoppino,  nel  mefe  di  Giu||gno, 
del.  M.D.xxviii.  con  priuilegio  di  Leone 
papa,  &  del  Senato  di||quefta  citta',  che 
niuno  per  anni  diece  pofTa  quefte  ifole 
imprimere,  oHimprefTe  uendere,  ne  loro 
luoghi  fotto  pofti,  fotto  le  pene  che  in  || 
efli  priuilegii  fi  contengono,  fe  no  colore, 

*  An^lici:  The  book  of  Benedict  Bor-  modern  names,  histories,  fables  and  mode 
done,  which  treats  of  all  the  islands  of  the  of  life,  in  what  part  of  the  Ocean  they  are 
world,   together    with    their   ancient    and     situated,  what  parallel  and  climate. 


'ifwl" 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  26 j 

a  quali   dal   com  ||  pofitor   loro   efprefla  ||    1528. 
mete  fara'  ordinate  che  le  ftam  ||  pino  ouer  == 
uendano.y  IjJ  || 

*^*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  (text  begins  on  the  verso),  +  eight  unnuni- 
bered  leaves,  containing  three  double  maps  -f-  seventy-three 
numbered  leaves.  The  map  before  the  first  folio  represents 
a  hemisphere,  in  which  on  the  N.W.  portion  we  read  terra 
del  laboratore.  Just  above  the  line  of  the  equator  are  the 
worAs  ponete  modo  nouo,  and  beneath  the  equatorial  line  there 
is  a  rude  tracing  of  a  continent  extending  into  the  Atlantic, 
and  as  far  as  the  tropic  of  Capricorn.  On  the  verso  of  fol. 
VI  there  is  a  small  map,  where  on  the  N.  E.  part  we  have 
mountains  and  pictures  of  houses,  and  beneath  Terra  de  lauo- 
ratore.  S.  E.  we  have  three  islands,  asmaide,  l/rasil  (on  the 
same  parallel — brasil  being  most  easterly),  opposite  the  third 
island,  beneath  these  two,  is  written  astores.  S.  W.  occur  in 
the  saTie  type  the  words  :  stretto\\pte  modo  nouo\\.  On  the 
recto  of  fol.  x  is  the  representation  of  a  large  city,  under 
which  is  printed  :  "La  gran  citta  di  Temistitan,"  and  the  text 
underneath  begins  :  "  Terra  di  sancto  Croce  ouer  mondo  nouo, 
fu  la  prima  di  tutte  queste  isole,  che  trouata  fusse,  &c."  On 
the  verso  of  fol.  xi  is  a  small  map,  showing  on  the  N.W. 
iamaique,  on  the  N.  E,  (opposite  spagnoLi),  on  the  medium  line 
on  the  W.,  chanchite,  on  the  centre  of  this  line,  curtana,  on 
the  F..,  mariatambal.  In  the  extreme  S.  E.  of  the  map  is 
printed />(jr/V».  t)n  the  verso  of  fol.  xii  is  an  island  marked 
jpagnola,  and  N.  E.  is  the  representation  of  a  city,  under  which 
is  printed  Isabella,  On  the  recto  of  folio  xiii,  is  the  map  ot  ^ 
another  island,  with  a  lofty  mountain  in  the  N.,  under  which 
is  written  Jamaiqua.  On  the  verso  of  the  same  fol.  wc  have 
another  island,  subscribed  within  the  interior  of  the  is. and, 
Cuba.  What  ought  to  have  been  numbered  xiv  is  numbered 
xviii.  On  this  map  we  have  laid  down  on  the  N.  W., 
S.  Maria  antica,  and  beneath  santa  ■\- .  Due  N.,  S.  Maria 
rotonda.  N.  E.,  an  island  moferato.  On  the  equatorial  parallel, 
on  the  W.,  martino  ;  on  the  meridian  an  island,  bughima ; 
and  S.  E.,  the  island  domtnica.  Due  S.  is  laid  down  an  island 
without  a  name.  On  the  verso  of  xvi  ii  (/.  e.  of  the  fol.  which 
should  have  been  numbered  xiv)  arc  two  maps,  the  one  at 
the  top  of  the  page  shows  an  island  designated  guadalupc ; 
underneath  other  islands  are  laid  down,  among  others  part  of 
one  marked  domtnica.  The  bottom  map  is  marked  matittina. 
The  account  of  these  various  islands  finishes  on  the  recto  of 
fol.  XV.  All  these  maps  are  on  the  same  scale,  or  rather  the 
same  size,  viz.:  Si  by  3  inches. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Pruvidence.) 


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Bibliotheca  Americana. 


1528.  Benedetto  Bordone  was  born  at  Padua',  but  lived  at 
=  Venlce^  where  he  cultivated  Astrology,  Geography 
Greek  literature  and  miniature  painting  as  a  profession' 
i^ontanini'  and  Tiraboschi*  assert  that  he  was  the  father 
of  the  vain-glorious  Julius-Caesar  Scaliger.  Zeno,  on  the 
other  hand,  in  a  lengthy  but  interesting  note',  denies 
the  assertion.  As  to  Scaliger,  it  is  well  known  that  he 
claimed  to  be  a  descendant  of  the  princely  house  of  della 
Scala.     The  date  of  Bordone's  death  is  unknown. 

Concerning  the  work  before  us,  which  is  a  description 
of  all  the  islands  then  known,  with  a  sketch  of  the  man- 
ners  and  history  of  their  inhabitants,  Lelewell  says' : ' 

"Cet  ouvrage  etait  acheve  en  1521  :  Mo  uescouo  di  Racoscia  scrive 
a  Leone  summo  pontifice  hauer  veduto  (fol.  lxxiii— edit,  of  iziA  ' 
Le  papeLeon  X.privilcgiant   le   5  Juin   152,   I'editeur,  mourut  le 
I     decembre  de  meme  annee.     ^iordone  en  1526.  s'addressait  au  senat 
de  Venice  pour  preserver  son  o,wrage  de  la  contrefacon.     Bordone 
mourut  en  153,   [.']  ......     O.,  y  compte  105  figures  insulaires 

y  compris  les  p'ans  de  Venise  et  c^e   Temistetan  ....         enfin 

r universale   ou  la  mappemonde  de  Ptolemee,  avec  tous  les  comple- 
ments de  1  anne  1 521,  complements  qu'on  voit  dans  la  carte  portu- 
^V'u   i\'l°''  '^'"'  ""'  '''  ^y'^^"°    '5'i   [supra.  No.  68],  sur  le 
globedeSchoner,  1520  ....  La  perturbation  d'idees  geographiques 

de  cette  epoque  se  dccele  d'une  maniere  singulierc  dani  I'isolario  de 
U.  Bordone  1521,  1534.     On  y  voit  une  mappemonde,  calquee  sur 
a  carte  portugaise,  seulcment   Bordone  ou  son  modele  y  introduisit 
la  longueur  ptolemeenne  de  la  mediterranee." 

Lenglet  Du  Fresnoy'^  and  M.  Renouard^  do  not  seem 
to  have  appreciated  Bordone's  Isolario. 


Direct  referencti  , 


Panzer,  ^nna/ts  Typogr.,  Vol.  viii,  page  ijoo. 
Havm,  Bihiioteca  Iialiana,  Vol.  iv,  page  103 
Clement,  BMiothique  Curieuse,  Vol.  v,  page  02.  » 
Brunet,  Vol.  I,  col.  I  1 12  r  o    /   , 

Graesse,  Vol.  I.  page  495. 
Bibliotheca  Broiuniana,  page  15,  No.  48. 


'  Zeno,  in   Fontanini,  Bihiioteca  dell' 
eloq.  Ilal.,  p.  268,  note. 

'  Mazzuchelli,  Gliurittori  d" Italia,  — . 

'  .'if  cii.,  p.  267. 

•  Storia  d.  Lett.  Ital.,  Vol.  Til,  p.  798. 


•  Gcogr.  du  Moyen-y1ge,\o\.  II,  pp.  1,4 
and  162. 

'  Mtthode  pour   itudier    la    Giographie 
Vol.  I,  Part  I,  p.  419  ' 

'  AnnaUi  del  Aide,  Vol.  I,  p.  14a. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  269 

I4-O.     MONTALBODDO-DU  REDOUER—''^  Sen(\iyt    Ic    nOU-      I  529* 

ueau  monde  et  nauigations,  faiftes  par  Emeric  de  Vef- 
puce,  Florentin,  des  pays  et  illes  nouuellement  trouuez 
auparauant  a  nous  incongneuz  :  tant  en  lEthiope  que 
Arrabie  Calichut  et  aultres  plufieurs  regions  eftranges, 
tranflate  de  ytalien  en  langue  francoyfe,  par  Mathurin 
du  Redouer,  licencie  es  loix.  On  les  vend  a  Paris  en  la 
rue  Neufue  Nojlre  Dame,  a  lenjeigne  Sain£l  Jehan  Baptijle, 
p^r  Denis  lanot  {fans  date),  pet.  in-4,  goth." 

(Nodier'.) 

*^*  Four  preliminary  leaves  +  Ixxxiij  numbered  leaves,  accord- 
ing to  Brunei'. 

Denys   Janot    printed    at    Paris    between    the    years 
1529  and  1545'. 


Direct  references!   T  '  Catalogue  for   1844,  page    177,  No.    1 107,  and   Description  rai- 
sonnee,  page  448,  No.  1107. 
'  Manuel,  Vol.  v,  col.  11 60. 
Livres  Curieux,  p.tge  26,  No.  121. 
Bulletin  du  Bibliophile,  tor  1840,  page  342,  No.  370. 


14.7.      LORITZ  OR  GLAREANU&— Within  a  wide  border: 

HENRICIilGLAREANI  POETAE  LAV- ||  REATI 
DE  GEOGRA-II  PHIA  LIBER  VNVS,  ||  AB  IPSO  AV- 
TORE  II  RECOGNITVS.  ||  APVD  FRIBVRGVM  BRIS- 
GAVDIAE.y 


*  Marques    Typographijues.   p.   14,   No.  loguc   (Part    11,    Vol    11,   p.   425),  and  in 

26.     (We   inserted   the    above   under  the  Panzer  (Annalts,   Vol     viii,  p.    68,   No. 

date  0^1529  on  this  authority ;  but  since,  1214)    the  imprint  ot  Uenys  Janot  on  a 

we  have  found  in  the  La  Yalliere  Cata-  work  printed  in  1520. 


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APVD  FRIBVRGVM  BISGOICVM  ||  ANNO.  M.  D. 
XXX.  II  EXCVDEBAT  lOANNES  FA-  j|  BER  EMMEVS 
IVLIACENSIS.  II 

%♦  4to,   thirty-five   numbered   leaves  -f-  one   blank   leaf  with   a 
woodcut  on  the  verso. 

{Private  Library,  Paris.) 

,      Dirut  references:  (  Panzeii,  yinnaUi  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  ix,  page  464. 
X  Hntorical  Nuggtii,  No.  1 246. 


• 


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148.  APiANUs-G.  FRISIUS-"  Cofmographlcus  Liber 
Petri  Apiani  Mathematici,  ftudiofe  corredtus,  ac  ab 
erroribys  vindicatus  per  Gemmam  Phryfium.  Veneunt 
Antuerpiae  in  aedibus  Rolandi  Bollaert.  Et  a  la  Jin. 
Excufum  Antuerpiae  impenfis  Rolandi  Bollaert,  Typis 
Joannis  Graphei,  Anno  a  Chrifto  nato  1529.  menfe 
Febr.,  in  410.  Feuilles  56." 

(Cumint'.)  • 

We  can  find  no  edition  of  Apianus  of  an  earlier  date 
with  the  valuable  additions  of  Gemma  Frisius.  Tro- 
mel  erroneously  considers*  the  edition  of  1539  as  the 
first  given  by  the  latter. 

"  Gemma  Frisius  s'appelloit  Reinerus  [Regnier].  II  naquit  a 
Docum  [in  1508']  d'une  famiile  honnete.  Ce  fut  un  Medecin  pro- 
fond  en  la  theorie  de  son  art,  &  heureux  en  la  pratique.  Mais  il 
excella  surtout  dans  les  Mathematiques.  II  fut  extremement  aime 
&  estime  par  I'Empereur  Charles-Quint,  &  memes  suivant  I'avis  de  ce 
Prince,  qui  etait  S9avant  en  Astronomic  &  en  Geometric  il  corrigea 
une  faute  qu'il  avait  faitc  en  sa  Mappemonde,  laquelle  il  dedia  ensuite 
a  cet  Empereur.     II  mourut  a  Louvain  [in  1558*  or  in  1555*]  de  la 


>  Biblhthijue  Curitute,  Vol.  I,  p.  405,         »  Foppens,   Bibliotheca  Be/gica,  Vol.  I, 
note.  p.  J  J  I. 

»  Bililiotiefue  Amiricaine,  p.  6,  No.  11.         *  Fsiherus,  Theatrum,  p.  1139.         • 


1: 


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peste  [or  of  a  stone  in  the  bladder*],  suivant  Melchior  Adam,  SufFride 
Petri,  &  Hierome  Ghilini." 

(Tiissier'.) 

To  which  we  may  add  with  Freherus*  that  his  "  Sta- 
tura  fuit  parva,  membris  graciiibus  &  facie  pallida." 
As  to  his  annotations  to  Apianus'  Cosmographia,  Lele- 
well'  says  that  they  consist  in  having: 

"  introduit  les  notions  geographiques  et  une  table  abondante  de 
longitudes  et  latitudes  geographiques  de  Ptolemee,  pour  servir  a  dresser 
les  cartes,  dont  il  fit  en  1540  lui-meme  I'experience  a  Louvain'."    . 

Gemma  Frisius  was  the  pupil  of  Apianus,  and  teacher 
of  the  celebrated  cosmographer  Juan  de  Rojas. 


149.     APIANUS  {PETER)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf : 

^COSMO-||graphiae  introdvctio  :  cvm|| 

quibufdam  Geometritg  ac  Afironontia  prin-  ||  dpiji  fd  eum  rem  necef- 
farijs.  II 

A  large  armillary  sphere,  below  which ; 

ExcvsvM   ingoldstadii.IIm.d.xxix.II 

Colophon  on  the  verso  of  the  last  printed  leaf: 

Ingoljiadij,  Anno  M.D.XXXI. 

*^*  i2nio,  title  one  leaf-j-  thirty-one  leaves,  numbered  in  Arabic 
numerals  from  i-i6,  after  which  the  enumeration  ceases. 
The  whole  is  printed  in  italics  with  contractions,  and  contains 
several  geographical  diagrams ;  with  a  blank  leaf. 

(British  Museum.) 


'  Lelewell,     Giogr.    du    Moytn-Age,  ''  La  Eloges  des  Hommes  Scavans,\u\.\. 

Vol.  11,  p.  176.     "Mort  le  25  Mai  1555,  p.  96. 

avant  la  publication  de  son  livre  \_De  jittro-  "  "  Charta.  sive  Mappa  mundi  (ut  vulguj 

labio'\." — D'AvEZAC,  Projections  Giogr.  p.  vocat)  id  est  Orbis  totius  Descripiio,  Carolo 

JO,  note.  V.    dicata.      Lovanii,    1540."      KopftNs, 

*  De  Thou,  Hist,  mei  temporis,  lib.  xvi.  loc.  at.,  p.  331. 


1529. 


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I  C2Q.        On  the  verso  of  leaf  c 6  reference  is  made  to  America  in  these  words: 

!!—      "  Non  solum  aiit  pr, edict  it  tres  partes  ||  niic  sunt  lauus  lustrate,  ucrum 

y  alia   quarta  pars  /7^  ||  (continued   on   recto   of  leaf  23)    America 
Vesputio  sagacis  ingenii  uiro,  inueta  est.     ^a  ]|  ab  ipso  America  eius 


inuentore   Amerigen  quasi  Ame- 
uolunt,"  &c. 


rici   terram  Jiue   America  appellari 


M.  D'Avezac's  copy  bears  a  manuscript  marginal 
note,  dated  "  1532  V  Nonas  Octobris"  viz.: 

"  En  pane  is  terra  describit  Apiarfi  omne 
Mu/tis  qua  Magnus  vincere  no  po  [tuit]." 

Tiie  work  before  us  is  evidently  an  abridgment  of 
the  larger  Cosmographia  of  Apianus  [No.  127],  as  entire 
passages  in  chapters  xxv-xxviii,  are  literally  copied  from 
the  latter.      (See  supra,  page  239.) 

I  ^O.     IDEM  0i»C/5— The  only  differences  are  in  the  following 

colophon  on  the  recto  of  the  last  leaf: 

Excufum  logoljladij  [j/V]  ||  An.  M.D.XXXIII.  Ij  Mense  lanuario. 

And  in  the  pagination,  which  is  as  follows:  Title  one  leaf  +  leaves 
numbered  fro  n  2-16+  five  unnumb.  11.  marked  c,  cij,  r  3,  c  ^,  eg, 
4-  three  11.  unnumbered  and  without  signatures  -|-  five  unnumb.  11. 
marked  d,  d  z,  d  },  d^,  d  ^,-\-  three  unnumb.  11  without  sig. -}-  five 
11.  marked  <•,  ^z,  ^  3,  f  4,  ^  5  +  there  11.  without  sig.,  verso  of  the 
last  of  which  is  blank. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

Dirtct  referencei :  C  Panzir,  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  vii,  page  128,  No.  X2. 

i  Kloss  Catalogue,  page  20,  No.  256. 
(  Bibliothtca  Barlowiana,  page  13. 


' 


1^30.  *5I'     ^^^^-s  (i)— "  Underweifung    und    vfllegunge 

==?^!=  der  Cartha  Marina  oder  die  mercarten,  darin  man  fehen 

mag,  wa  einer  in  d'welt  fy  und  wa  ein  ytlich  land,  wafler 

und  ftet  ligen.     (Zu   Anfang :   Voii  dem  riiien  land  auch 

amarica  genant.)     Mit  3  Hzfchn.     Fol.  Strajhurg^   530. 

21    Bll."        (Butsch  Catalogue*.) 


'  Page  24,  No.  359  J  Brunit,  Vol.  11,  col.  1399 


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1^2.     CLEMENT  yil  &  CHARLES  l^— First  line:  I  C3O. 

CAROLVS    Qulutug  tiiulna  fauente  mz^  —  — 
mentla  Momanorii  Jmpetatot  fcmper  Euguftus  ac 
(Kermanie .  I^ifpaniattt  btriufq,  ^irilic .  (Serufa? 
lem .  Ungarie,  ISalmatie,  ittroacie .  Jnfularfl  iUuU 
lard .  jFomnatatflcp .  ac  iioui  ©rbiss  Jntriarfl  .... 

Ninety-Jirst  line  : 

Batum  i3ononie  fut)  ^nno  a  j^atiuitate  tm 
lEUlenmopingenteftmotrtgefimo  ....    . 

\*  One  vellum  sheet,  containing  ninety-two  printed  lines  and  ■ 
few  words  in  manuscript. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

The  present  is  a  document  emanating  from  Charles 
V,  dated  Bologna,  March  23d,  1530,  and  reciting  two 
Papal  Bulls  from  Clement  VII'.  The  first  of  these  is 
addressed  to  Charles  V,  as  sovereign  of  New  Spain,  and 
alludes  to  the  new  islands  discovered  under  his  auspices, 
in  addition  to  Hispaniola,  and  such  as  were  subdued 
and  Christianized  by  Ferdinand. 

Beincepsi  (luotp  confitiimuia  [says  he],  tt  (luoati  in 
Ijumanis  ticsetis  [?]  Uartatais  nationefiJ  ati  retfl 
omnia  opificf  tt  cdlritote  ticu  cognofccUum  nfi  folfl 
etiictis  atrmonitiottii)uf(iu{ .  fcti  et  armig  et  birii)U« 
(fi  opus  (uctit)  bt  eatum  animc  celeftis  regni  fiant 
partidpefis  copulfurfl .  omnidp  ftutiio  effecturu.* 

This  document  is  not  interesting  merely  from  the 
fact  that  it  gives  to  Charles  V  authority  to  furnish 
ecclesiastical  dignitaries,  thus  conceding  the  long-contro- 

'  We  failed  to  find  those  two  Bulls  in  nations  to  come  to  the  knowledge  of  God, 

the  Luxemb.  edition  of  Cherubini's  Bui-  the  maker  and  founder  of  all  things,  not 

larium  Magnum  Romanum.  only  by  edicts  and  admonitions,  but  also  by  , 

*  Anglic? :   Whereuijon    we    trust    that  /one  and  arms,  if  needful,  in   order   that 

ij  long  as  you  are  on  earth  you  will  com-  their  soul    may  partake   ot  the   heavenly 

pel  and  with  all  zeal  cause  the  barbarous  kingdom. 

3S 


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I  530*    verted  right  about  investitures,  at  least  as  regarded  the 

- -1  New   World,   hut  also   from   the  circumstance  that  it 

boldly  enounces  the  doctrine  which  a  few  years  later 
became  the  subject-matter  of  those  bitter  controversies, 
now  personified  in  the  eyes  of  the  historian  by  Bartho- 
lomew de  Las  Casas  on  the  one  side,  and  Juan  Gines  de 
Sepulveda  on  the  other.  It  is  worthy  of  notice  that 
Sepulveda  lived  at  or  near  Rome  during  the  entire  pon- 
tifical life  of  Clement  VII  (152J-1534);  and  we  are 
inclined  to  believe  that  the  too-famous  Democrates  secun- 
dus,  seu  De  Justis  belli  causis  (a  MS.  copy  of  which  exists 
in  a  private  library.  Providence,  R.  I.)  quotes  as  an 
authority  this  Bull  of  the  ambitious  Julius  de  Medicis, 

153*     ENCISO  (At.  DE)—Uniier  a  large  sphere,  held  by  a  band: 

trata  ^e  totiag  las  partilras  r  prouinrt  ||  ajs  Hd 
tnunlio :  en  cfpccial  Urlagt  intriag.  ||  r  trata  larga^ 
mente  titX  arte  Uel  marear||  juntamente  eon  (a  egfera 
en  romance :  ||  eonel  regimifto  Uel  fol  g  Hel  norte : 
ago  II  ranueuamentc  emeniatra  tie  aIguno«  ||  defers 
tog  q  tenia  enla  imprefHo  paffalia.|| 

Signs  of  the  zodiac  on  the  verso. 

End  of  Colophon : 

.  .  .  jFue  impreffa  enla  notUimilmar  mug  leal 
eitJiiati  Ue  ^euiUa  por  JuS  rrom-Htjerger:  en  el 
aflo  irela  enrarnacion  tie  nue-||ftro  fefior  Jefu 
etr-Ito  tie  mil  r  quini-||ento0 .  r .  xxx, 

***  Folio,  title  one  leaf-J-  fifty-seven  numbered  leaves, 

(Private  Library,  New  Vork.) 


Dirtct  rt/triHcti:  f  Panier,  Annaltt  Tyfogr..  Vol.  ix,  page  475. 
-   Bibliotktca  Htitriatia,  Part  II,  No.  2163. 
.  Raetzel  Catalogue,  No.  911. 


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I  C4..     MjIRTYR     PETERy-lVitbin  a    border   represtnting    tbt     1^30. 
/aiors  of  Hercules :  »— ' 


DE    ORBENO 

no  |)drt  |1larti)m  ab 
Jinglrrta  |lt()>t0l(in<rn 

torn  ie- 

€  ittum  ptiuiUgio  Jmperiall 

OTompluti  oputi  lEicta 

(le  19  ISguia  Enno 

Within  the  border,  the  words :  diOKoXa  raXd,  Sujiine,  iff  abjiine. 

Colophon  : 

EXCVSVM  COMPLVTI   IN   AEDIBVS  ||  Michaelis   de 
Eguia.     Anno  Virginei  ;j  partus  VI.D.XXX.  i|  Menfe  Decebri. 

*  *  Title  one  leaf  +  one  leaf  for  Preface  +  leaves  numbered  iij- 
cxij,  +  three  unnumbered  leaves  for  Vocabula  Barbara. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

First  complete  edition  of  the  eight  Decades.     It  is  in 


I) 


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1530.  some  respects'  more  correct  than  Hakluyt's*,  which  is 
—__«=«.  usually  considered  the  best.  The  copy  before  us  contains 
at  the  end  a  map  in  woodcut :  "  tipus  orbis  uniuersalis 
....  ghedruct  t'atwerpen  by  M.  peter  de  Wale  i  de 
guldi  hant"  which  is  not  without  interest  when  we 
read  the  note  added  to  the  Heber  copy',  and  referring 
to  "the  curious  map  of  Apianus,  cut  in  wood  at  Ant- 
w^*"?*  ^530-"     See  j«/>ra,  page  122. 


Dirict  Tiftrtnctt , 


Pinelo-Barcia,  Vol.  II,  col.  579. 

Meusel,  Bibliotheca  Hislorica,  Vol.  in.  Part  i,  paee  171. 

Ternaux,  No.  36.  >  r  6      /I 

Brunet,  Vol.  I,  col.  193. 

Graesse,  Vol.  I,  page  130. 

Bibliotheca  Broivniana,  page  15,  No.  49. 


155.   SAPiDo  (SULPicio)-'' Epitome  Hist.    ^    Cron. 
Mundi. 

**  Lyons  —  1530." 

"In  un  certo  libretto  [the  above]  si  trova  sotto  I'anno  1492: 
•  Insulae  quaedam  in  Oceano,  antiqiiioribus  ignotae  hoc  acvo  veluti 
novum  Orbi  ab  Americo  Vesputio  primum  &  deinde  a  Christoforo 
Columbo  luatrantur.'" 

(Bandini*.) 


156.  "Gemma  Phrysivs  de  Principiis  Aftron- 
omiae  &  Cofniographiae ;  de  ufu  Globi ;  de  Orbis  divi- 
fione  ac  Infulis  :  Joan  .  Grapheus  typis  excudebat.  4to 
Antverp  1530. 

''Men/e  Odobr.  Vaneunt  cum  Globis  Lovanii  apud 
Gregorium  Zaflenum,  &  Antverpiae  apud  Gregorium 
Bontium/«^  Scuto  Baftlienft." 

(Maittawe') 


Cf.  the  passage  on  verso  of  leaf  Ixxviij. 
See  Bulletin  Sociiti  dt  Geogr.,  for  September 
and  October,  1858,  p.  171. 
•  Paris,  8vo,  1587. 


•  Bibliotheca   Heheriatia,   Part   Vi,   No 

•  Vita  di  A.  Vespucci,  p.  LX.xiii. 

•  Annalet  Typogr.,  Vol.  11,  P.  11,  p.  737. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  I'jf 

'57*     Pf^'^PONIUSMELA—fVithin  an  ornamented  border:  '53^* 

^   POMPONII  II  MELAE     DE     ORBIS     SITV  " 

LiBRi  litres,  accuratiflime  cmi'vlati  vna'  cum 
Commentaljrijs  loachimi  Vadiani  Heluetii 
caftigatiori- 1|  bus,  &  ||  multis  in  locis  auc- 
toribus  fadis :  id  quod  cadidus  leclor  obi- 
ter, &||  in  tranfcurfu  facile  de-||prehendet|| 

ADIECTA  J'unt  prteterea    loca   aliquot   ex    VADIANI    cimentarijs^ 
f  jam-  II  matim  repetita,   £if  obiter  explicata :  in  quibus  ajlimandis  len- 

fendifqz  donijlJi-\\fno  uiro  loanni  CAMERTI  ordinis  Minorum  Theo- 
logo,  cum  loacbimo  \\  VADIANO  non  admodum  conuenit.  \-  RVRSVM, 
Epijhla  Vadiani,  ab  eo  pene  adulefcente  ad  Rudolphum  Jgri  '  (olam 
iuniorem  fcripta,  non  indigna  leBu,  nee  inutilis  ad  ea  capiendo,  qua 
alt-  II  ubi  in  Commentarijs  fuis  lib  are  magis,  quam  longius  expUcart 
ttoluit.  II 

T[  LVTETIAE    PARISIORVM, 

ANNO  M.D.XXX. 

'Akii(j)ij,  fiByiaog  ov  (I>oI3etj  Tovg  xpoipov^. 
Colophon  : 

LVTETIAE     PARISIORVM,      MENSE 

IVNIO    ANNO,    A    CHRISTO 

NATO    M.D.XXX. 

*  *  Folio;  title  one  leaf  +  thirteen  unnumbered  leaves, -|- one 
hundred  and  ninety-six  +  one  unnumbered  leaf  for  a  title,  + 
twenty-seven  unnumbered  leaves,  +  one  leaf,  recto  of  which 
is  blank,  while  the  verso  contains  a  printer's  mark,  viz. :  a 
tree,  a  bird  flying,  and  the  motto:  vnicvm  .  arbvstvm  no» 

ALIT  DVOS  ERITHACOS.       No  map. 

(Pri%ate  Library-,  New  York.) 

See  the  epistle  to  Agricola,  signature  Y. 


Dirid  rtftrtncet: 


'  Maittaire,  Annalei  Typogr.,  Vol.  il,  Part  ii,  pi.-e  73U. 
Bibliotheca  Thottiana,  Vol.  vil,  page  103. 
Panzer,  Annalti  Tyfogr..  Vol.  viii,  page  141. 
Bibliotheca  Barlowiana,  page  15. 


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278  •  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

153°**     '5^'     '"*'^'*  {LAURENT,-RecH  of  the  first  Itaf: 

?)9ibertticlfttttg  1  tiitb 

hfif  Infill  till  i^  II  ^^^  ^^^^^^^^  '))Ux\m  ober  bit 
*^!I**'B****B'"  OTfr||coHei!^orlii  man  |cl)cn 
man  >  n>a  (iner  in  b'  tocU  ft)  i  iinb  ma  tin  titlidi  ||  (anb  i 
maffrr  tinb  ffrt  \\%i\m  in  be  U  djlin  anoejogt  bft  in 
b'  diartf  ^ufi^cn.  || 

Then  woodtut  representing  men  with  dogs'  heads,  dividing  human 
flesh. 

Colophon  ; 

®fbrnift  jtt  Straflinrd   bon  ||  3o^anne«  ®rieninuer 
bnb  II  tioaenbe  bff  3ont  DOrgf  ||  abent  ?)m.  ^or  .  . 

mm,  XXX.  II 

*^*  Folio  ;    title  one   leaf  +  twenty-one  unnumbered   leaves,  no 
maps.     (See  notice  on  first  column  of  last  leaf.) 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

Dirttl  rtfertnct :  Graiisi,  Vol.  ii,  page  635. 

159.  "  Marineo  (Lucio)— Obra  Compuefta  de 
las  Cofas  Memorables  e  Claros  Varones  de  Efpafia, 
Alcala,  1530.     Folio." 

(Bibliotheca  Heieriana'.) 


'  Part  I,  No.  4680.  While  on  tlie  subject  of  American  Lin- 

•  We  find  in  Bakcia-Pinxlo  (col.  711)  guistica,  can  the  reader  inform  us  who  i> 

what  seems  to  us  an  eminently  apocryphal  that  '•  Vvadingo,"  whom  Barcia  quotes  so 

book,  at  least  under  the  date  of  1 5  30,  via. :  often  with  regard  to  the  Central  American 

"F.  Antonio  Di  CiPiDA,  Dominicc,./tfr«  languat;cs  ?     See   Titu/o   win,  Vol.  11    p 

de  las  Lenguas  de  Chiapa,  Loques,   Cel-  719,  .y.     He   is  altogether  u'nknown' to 

dales,!  Chinatlecai,  imp.  Mexico  .  1530."  Eguiara  and  BiRisfAiN. 


IgUlgglglj^^ 


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uerfia  eruditiflimi  ||  in  ccleberrima  5c  in  omni  literal  u  ||  gciiere 
maxime  florenti  Aca  ||  deniia  Complutenfi  in||Acdibus  iMichae|| 
lis  de  Eguia  ||  Anno  a  ||  Chrifto  ||  nato.  ||  M.D.XXX. 


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^53^'        ^^''   readers    are    aware    that    Peter    Martyr   was   a 
-—-. courtier.     He  acknowledges   himself  that  he  took  ex- 
treme pleasure  in   the  society  of  the  great',  and  was  on 
intimate  terms  with  the  i      st  influential  men  of  his  day 
and  country.     His  correspondence  with  these  has  been 
preserved,  and  covers  a  period  of  not  less  than  thirty- 
seven  years.     The  first  letter  bears  the  date  of  January 
I,  1488,  when  he  came  originally  to  Spain,   while  the 
last  is  dated  May,  1525,  the  year  preceding  his  death. 
These  816  or  813   letters    form  a  curious    medley  of 
accounts,    opinions    and    descriptions,    not   altogether 
free  from  twaddle,  but  which  initiate  us  into  the  secret 
workings  of  the  Spanish  government  at  the  beginning 
of  the   sixteenth   century,   and    the   inner    life  of  the 
principal    personages    of  the    time.      The   insanity   of 
(^ueen  Joanna',  the  cupidity  of  the  Flemish  courtiers', 
Luther's  Reformation'*,  the  expulsion  of  the  Jews',  the 
atrocious   deeds   of  the   Inquisition'',    the   conquest   of 
Granada',  the  attempt  on   the  life  of  Ferdinand^   the 
battle  of  Pavia',  &c.,  are  all  described  with  zest  and  a 
certain  couleur  locale  which  is  not  without   charm.      But 
the  letters  which   interest   us  most  are   the   following: 
txxx.  May,  1493,  to  Jo.  Borromeo;  cxxxm,  Septem- 
ber, 1493,  to  Count  Tendilla;   cxxxiv,  same  date,  to 
AstANio   Sforza;   cxxxv,  October,   1493,  to  the  Abp, 
of  (iallicia  (?)  ;   cxxxviii,  November,  1493,  to  Sforza; 
CXI.,    February,   1494,  to  the  Abp.  of  Granada;   cxlii, 
November,    1494,  to  Jo.  Borromeo;  cxlvi  and  clii, 
Decemlier  and  January,  1494,  to  Pomponius  L.*;tius; 
ci.xiv,    August,     1495,    to     Bernarijin    Caravajal  ; 
cLxviii,  October,  1496,  to  the  same. 

These  are  among  the  epistles   to   which    Humboldt 
calls    the  attention'"  of  the   reader  in    his    interesting 


'  "  Felicia  h.i'C  (blaiidimenta  natura-) 
deliciosi  prirdicaiit,  tnagnurum  me  viro- 
rum  sola  commercia  beant."  £f>iit.  xcv. 

'  Epist.  cccxvi,  tj. 

*  Upiht.  UCMll,  sj. 

*  Episl.  ucLXxxix,  If. 

*  Epitt.  V,  VI,  If. 


'  Epist.  cccxxxiii,  tj. 

'  Epist.  xcii. 

"  Epist.  txxv,  cf.  Ortu'  Tratadu, 
supra.  No.  10,  p.  32, 

•  Epist.  Dcccxtii. 

'°  Examen  Criiifuf,  Vol.  ii,  Appendix, 
pp.  Z79-i94- 


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a8i 


account  of  Peter  Martyr's  Opus  Epistolaruniy  in  these    1^30. 
words :  ,=__!_--. 

"Je  tcrminerai  cette  note  en  citant  les  lettres  dc  1493  qui  ont  rap- 
port a  Christophe  Colomb  (Archithtilasso,  Novi  Orbii  repertori)  : 
elles  se  trouvent  pag.  72,  73,  74,  75,  76,  77,  81,  84,  85,  88,  89,  90, 
02,93,96,  loi,  102,  1 16,  de  I'cdition  d'Amsterdam",  1670.  Com- 
parez  dans  I'edition  d'Alcala  de  Henares,  1530  [present  No.  159], 
pag.  71,  81,  84,  89,  92,  95,  1 16,  etc.") 

Meusel  also  mentions :  "  Quae  ad  res  Americanas 
fpectant,  maxime  funt  fequentes :  [Nos.]  130,  133,  142, 
144,  146,  152,  156,  158,  164,  168,  202,  532,  545'  549. 
fci,  560,  562."  We  refer  in  the  body  of  this  work  to 
the  other  epistles  which  refer  to  Mexico,  Grijalva,  Cor- 
tes, &c.  These  letters  were  carelessly  written,  and  the 
testimony  of  Juan  de  Vergara'*,  who  asserts  having  seen 
Peter  Martyr  dispatch  a  couple  of  epistles  while  his 
servants  were  laying  the  table  for  dinner,  is  sufficient  to 
account  for  the  inaccuracies  and  contradictions  which 
they  contain.     Hallam  says  of  these  epistles  : 

"  They  are  full  of  interesting  facts,  and  would  be  still  more  valuable 
than  they  are  could  we  put  our  trust  in  their  genuineness  as  strictly 
contemporary  documents.  La  Monnoye  (if  I  remember  right", 
certainly  some  one)  long  since  charged  the  author  with  imposture,  on 
the  ground  that  the  letters,  into  which  he  wove  the  history  of  his 
times,  are  so  full  of  anachronisms  as  to  render  it  evident  that  they 
were  fabricated  afterwards."" 


"  OPUS||EPISTOLARUM]|P£r;j/  Leonakd,    Typographum    Regium,  ||  cla 

MARTYRIS  II  ANGLERIl    MEDIO-  be  l\x. 

L/1NENSIS,  II  Hrotonotarii     Apostolici,  \*  Folio,  «i  3  Inters. 

Prioris  Archiepiscopatus  Granatensis,    at-  "  Sec  his  letter  to  F.  de  Ocaippo  apud 

que   a  II  Consiliis   Rerum    Indicarum    His-  yuiNTANiLi.A   v    Mendoza,   yln/ietypo  Je 

patiicis,   tanta    cura    excusum,    ut  |]  prater  yirtudfs;    Palermo,  1655,  ijuotcd  by  An- 

styli   venustatt-m  i)uoqui'   fungi   possit   vice  toNio, /*(/>/. //"/><"i.  A'ox'rf,  Vol.  11,  p.  371, 

Luniinisjl  Historia-supcrioruni  teniporuni.jl  and    Prescott,    Ferdinand  and    Isabella, 


Cui  acceneruni  \\  EPlSTOLi*".  ||  FERDI- 
N/iNDI  da  i't/Z.G.^R  II  Coitanei  Lat- 
inip  paritrr  atque  Hispanic*  cum  Trac- 
tatu  Hispaiicu  de  ||  Viris  Castella  Illus- 
trihus. 

Editio  Post)  ema. 

•;  AmsTELon^Mi,  Typis  Elzevirianis.  || 
Veneunt  ||  PARiSlIS,  ||  Apud  Freoericum 


36 


Vol,  u,  p.  76,  "ole. 

"  U  it  not  Vas.«us  in  Chronico  Hispani^t, 
rap.  IV,  as  quoted  by  Vossius,  Oe  Hiilor. 
Lalin.,  Lib.  111.  p.  671  ? 

'*  Literature  0/  Europe,  Vol.  I,  cap.  IV, 
J   81.     Hallam   cites   in   support   ot   hii 
assertion  the  t'oltowing  anachronisms : 
"in  the  year  14K9  he  wiilei  to  a  friciiil  1  In 


1 


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1530.  Mr.  Prescott  cites  in  favor  of  Peter  Martyr's  veracity, 
Galindez  de  Carvajal",  Alvaro  Gomez"*  and  Juan  de 
Vergara,  all  of  whom  were  his  contemporaries.  Mr. 
Helps  adds  the  name  of  Las  Casas'^.  Antonio'"' 
Flechier'^,  Niceron",  speak  highly  of  our  author,  while 
Mufioz",  although  soliciting  the  indulgence  of  the  pub- 
lic for  "el  candor  con  que  [Martyr]  lo  confiesa  todo, 
por  su  niugun  afan  en  publicar  sus'borrones,"  says  that 
"debe  procederse  con  gran  cautela." 

Antonio  states'^  that  when  F.  Barberini  was  his  brother 
Urbain  V Ill's  nuncio  to  Spain  (1630),  the  present 
edition  of  Peter  Martyr's  epistles  had  already  became 
so  rare,  that  he  was  obliged  to  pay  a  very  high  price  for 
a  manuscript  copy,  in  lieu  of  a  printed  original.  Niceron 
adds'"  that  "cette  premiere  edition  etant  extrememcnt 
rare,  M.  le  premier  President  de  Lamoignon  donna 
I'exemplaire  qu'il  avait  dans  sa  Bibliotheque,  a  Charles 
Patin,  qui  en  fit  faire  une  nouvelle  en  Holiande"  plus 
belle  &  plus  correcte."  Prescott  points  out  some  errors 
in  this  reprint. 


pcculiarfm  re  nnstr.r  tempesiatis  morbum,  qui  ap- 
prllaliniic  His()aiia  Duharum  ilicitnr,  ab  luhs  m^r- 
bus  (lalliius,  meilirorum  KIcphaiiliam  alii,  alii 
jlilcr  appcllaiil,  iocijissc  pr.ecipili-m,  libcro  a.l  me 
scribis  pclc.  l-fiil.  ^S.  Now  if  »c  should  even 
believe  (hat  this  disease  was  known  some  years 
before  the  discovery  of  America  and  the  siege  of 
Naples  !  it  j/uMu  was  known],  is  it  probable"  that 
it  could  have  obtained  the  name  of  morbus  c;allicus 
before  the  latter  .nra  ?  In  Kcbruarv,  m  I,  he  com- 
municates the  absolution  of  the  X'cnetians  by  Julius 
II,  whirh  took  place  in  Tebraary,  1510.  ///if. 
4?l.  Ill  a  letter  dated  at  Brussels,  )l  Aug.,  I?lo 
(  I- pill,  fi^')  y  he  mentions  the  bnrnini;  of  the  canon 
law  at  Wittenberg  bv  Luther,  which  is  well  known 
to  have  happened  in  the  eiisniiiK  year." 

Wf  should  adJ,  .if'tcr  Humboldt,  that 
in  an  E(ii>tle  d.ited  Deicmber  19,  1493, 
Pett^r  Martyr  refers  to  events  which  tduk 
place  at  HispanioU,  the  news  "t"  which 
were  first  brtiuc'ht  to  Spain,  March  16, 
1494  In  £/>/i;.  1 68.  dated  October.  1496, 
we  find  an  account  of'  events  which  hap- 
pened in  1498.  The  Epistles  181,  185. 
dated  Sept.  and  Nov.  1497,  meniiiin  the 
arrival  of  Vasco  da  Gama  at  Calichut  by 
the  Cape  ot'Guod  Hope,  although  the  Utter 


was  not  doubled  until  November  zo,  1497. 
Mr.  PRtscoTT  says  in  reply  that  "alter  all 
the  errors,  iuch  as  they  jr  ,  in  Peter  iMar- 
tyr's  Lpiules,  m.iy  probably  chiefly  be 
charged  on  the  publisher."  Loc.  cii.,  p. 
77,  mte.  .MuSoz  is  more  .  inphatic  :  Esioy 
ptrsuaMJo  a  que  estos  errores  son  del  co- 
lector  de  los  papcles,  sucltos  do  Martir." 
Histor.  dtl  Nutio  MunJo,  p.  \\y , 

'*  Analf!,  MS.,  frolo^ro. 

"  De  Rebus  Geuis  [Franciici  ::imimi]  j 
Alcal.i,  t'ol.,  1569. 

"  "  De  los  cualcs  cerca  Jestas  frimerai 
coiai  a  niriguno  se  Jebe  Jar  mas  fee  jue  a 
Pedro  Mariir  [lelerring.  however,  only  to 
the  Dec  dos(,  j;..  Heli'S,  The  Spanish  ,<i»- 
qurst  in  Americi.  Vol.  1,  p.  107. 

""  Bib/,  llisp.  Nova.  Vol.  it,  p.  373. 

"  Histoire  Ju  Cardinal  Ximenes.  Vol.  i, 
p.  7,  cited  by  CHAurrtpii,  Didionnairi, 
Vol    111.  p.  49,  art.  Martyr. 

""  Mtmoires,  Vol.  .\x.\iii,  p.  210. 

"  Hitlor.  del  Nuevo-Mundo,  p.  xill. 


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283 


Direct  rtftrtnctt: 


Maittaiki,  Annalei  Typogr.,  Vol.  11,  Part  II,  page  743.  1  C  '20» 

Panzer,  Annalet  Typogr.,  Vol.  vi,  page  445. 

1\1eusel,  Biblioiheca  Historica,  Vol.  Ill,  Pt.  I,  page  271,  sj.  ^m^^s-^i^m 

Aroelatus  &  Saxius,  Biblioth.  Script.  Mediol.,  col.  1941. 

Sciii.o2ER,  Briefnvecliul  m.  hiitor.  Inhalti,  Pt.  11,  page  207,  sq. 

Bihliothtca  Heberiana,  Part  vi.  No.  2414,  and  Part  VII,  No.  3944. 

Biblioiheca  Browniana,  page  15,  No.  50. 

Brunet,  Vol.  I,  col.  294. 

Ebert,  No.  I  3319. 

Graeisi,  Vol.  I,  page  130. 


161.  MAFFEi  OF  yoLTERRA—"  Commentariorum  ur- 
banorum  Libri  XXXVIII.     Bafil.  1530.  f." 

(Meusil'.) 

162.  RESENDE  (A.  A.  DE)--Recto  of  the  fir  it  leaf: 

EPITOME    RERVM   GESTARVM  |1   1531. 

in  India  a  Lufitanis,  anno  fuperiori,  iuxta  -'^"  '" 
exem-llplum  epiftolae,  quam  Nonius  Cug- 
na,  dux  Indian  Umax,  dcfignatus,  ad  regem 
niifit,  ex  vrbe  Ca-  ||  nanorio,  IlII.  Idus 
Odobris.  Anno.  H  m.d.xxx.  H  Audtore  An- 
gelo  Andrea  Refendio  Lufitano.  || 

Louanii  apud  Scruatium  Zailenum,  An- 
no II  M.D.xxxi.  Menfe  lulio.  Ad  li-  H  gnu 
Regni  coelorum.  H 

\*  4to,  title  one  leaf  +  fifteen  unnumbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  Providence.) 


'  BibH.t/i.  HIstsr.,  Vol.  I,  Part  I.  p.ige 
281  ;  aiii  rAB«Kius,  Bib/.  Lut.  MiJ.  Vi)l. 
VI,  p.i(;c  14Z.  wh>al!()  mentions:  "  Com- 
mentarti  reium  urba'^itrum,  lib.  .XXWill, 
cum  Oeconomicii  Xen"('hontis.  Paiis, 
apud  Jod. — Badium  I  526,"  and  a  life  of 
Alexander  VI  by  the  sanie  author  (/^ii,r 


Sivti  IF,  Innoceniii  Flff,  A;fx:2w{er  ri 
£3"  I'ii  III;  Venct,  151S,  U>\.).  which 
may  contain  addiiicnal  details  concern- 
ing the  lir^t  vny-ige  of  Columbus  and 
tlic  Emba  bies  of  UbeJience  intrusted  to 
Bcrnardin  dc  Carvajal  and  Francisco  de 
Almeida. 


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V 


'  53  '•        ^^  found  this  work  in  a  library  devoted  exclusively 
to  America,  but,  as  far  as  we  can  recollect,  failed  to  dis- 
cover anything  relating  to  the  subject  before  us.     The 
title,  as  well  as  Meusel's  notice',  indicates  that  the  work 
belongs  to  the  Bibliotheca  Asiatica.     There  were  three 
Portuguese   Resendes,  who  were  contemporaries,  viz.  : 
Andrew  Falcam  de  Resende,  a  Portuguese  poet,  who 
died  in   1598;    Garcia  de  Resende,  the  historian  and 
poet,  who  died  in  1554,  and  whose  Chronica  we  notice, 
tn/ra,  after  quoting  it   in  reference  to  the  disposition 
evinced  by  the  noblemen  of  the  court  of  John  II  to 
murder  Columbus  when  he  landed  at  Rastello  {supra, 
page  6)  ;  and  the  present  Angelo  Andrea  de  Resende,' 
born  in    1498,  a  prolific  writer  and  a  great  antiquarian, 
who  died,  universally  respected,  in  1573.     The  reader 
might  consult  with  advantage  the  works  of  I.  da  Sylva*, 
Barbosa  y   Machado,   and  de   Figaniere',  to  ascertain 
whether  among  the  numerous  plaquettes  published  by 
A.  A.  de  Resende,  some,  now  extremely  rare,  do  not 
refer  to  America  or  at  least  to  Brazil. 

Dirict  re/ertnces:  I  Bibliotheca  GrenvUiana,  page  60 1. 

\  BibliotAtca  Browniana,  page  16,  No.  51. 


^S?>^'  163.    MARiNEo  [L.)-'' O^u^    dc    Rebus    Hifpanis 

memorabilibus,  Compluti,  Mich,  de  Eguia,  1532,  folio." 

{Bibliotheca  Heberiana* .) 

164.    BORDONE  (,B.)-'' \{qW\o,    Vinegia,    Zoppino, 

1532,  folio."       (Graesse*.) 


^miiotheca  mtorica,   Vol.   v,   Pt.   ,,  W„,  Vol.  ,x,  p.  44»i  U.yrAO,  Analecta, 

s'n'    •        ■     II, ■  P-  57-     Under  the  date   of  icio,  we  de- 

a..nZ':r'°P  ^f'yfT^"?  """'"  '""•'•  '■"  '""■"'  '"  -isin^l  S  of  th. 

apflicaveis  a  Portugal  e  do  Braiil.  work 

ulmlrf* -o^"'"''"     '''""S"'''  '  *  Vol.   ',  p.   495-     The    Tri.cr  i.  the 

*7Jn'  No'  ,6,8   .„.  P               .  T>  ^"'^  "'  ""'-^  «"'*  ^hich  mention, 

fart  II,  No.  3618,  and  Panzer,  An-  this  edition. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  285 

l6c.    PTOLEMr—Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

graphicae  II  Cum   Eandaui  anno||tationibus 
eggrellgie  illuftratae.ll 

The  above  title,  in  the  copy  before  us,  is  only  a  fac-simile,  but 
it  seems  to  have  been  copied  from  the  original. 

Recto  of  the  next  page,  printed  : 

ARGENTORATi  II  apud   Pctrum  Opilionem. 
M.D.XXXII. 


1532. 


*  *  Folio  ;  title  one  leaf  -f-  ex  numbered  leaves,  followed  by 
eight  maps,  covering  each  two  leaves,  +  two  unnumbered 
leaves.  The  last  map  bears  no  title ;  but,  west  of  Iceland, 
there  is  represented  a  large  continent  "  Inde  continuatur  littori 
terrjE  Baccallaos,  356-60,"  which  contains  the  following 
inscriptions:  terra  bacallaos,  vlteriora  incognita  gron- 

LANDIA,    HVETSARGH    PROMONT. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

See  verso  of  the   ninety-second  leaf  for  interesting 
matter  touching  Cabot  and  Cuba. 

Diricl  rtfirtnct :  Bihliothtca  Hiberiana,  Part  V,  No.  5388  ( ? ) 


166.    LORiTZ  OR  gl^rEjINUS—"  de  Geographia  liber. 
Franc.  153a  fol.  ab  ipfo  audlore  tertio  recognitus." 

(Athtnte  Rauric^'.) 

Evidently  an  error,  as  we  give  (Nos.  14a,  143,  147) 
editions  dated  1527,  1528  and  1530. 


'^4 


if 

11 


'  Sivt  Catalogut  Profttiorum  Academ.  Baiilicniis,  p.  251, 


286  Bibliotheca  Jmericana. 

I532*     ^^7*    ''■  M^^TYR  &  F.  CORTESr- Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

^      ^  EXTRAIT  OV  RECVEIL   DES  || 

IJJes  nouuellemet  trouuees  en  la  grand  mer 
Oce-  II  ane  ou  temps  du  roy  Defpaigne  Fernad 
&  Eliza  II  beth  fa  femme^  faiSi  premierenmit 
en  latin  par  \\  Pierre  Martyr  de  Millan,  &> 
depuis  tranJJate  en  \\  lafiguaige  francoys,  || 
Item  trois  Narrations :  dont  la  premiere  eft 
de\\  Cuba,  &'  commence  ou  fueillet  i.32.||L^ 
feconde,  qui  eji  de  la  mer  Oceane,  commence  \\ 
ou  fueillet  155.  jjL^  tierce,  qui  eJi  de  la 
prinfe  de  Tenufiitan,  com\\mence  ou  fueillet 
192.11 

%  On  les  vend  a  Paris  rue  fainSi  lehan 
de  Beau-  ||  uais,  chez  Simon  de   Colines  au 
foleil  dor,  jj 
^  ,  ,  (turn  priuilrgio. 

Colophon  t 

Imprifne  a  Paris  par  Simon  de  Colines 
libraire  iure  de  \\  luniuerfte  de  Paris,  Lan 
de  grace  Mil  cinq  ces  trente-deux,  le  dou- 
ziefme  iour  de  lanuier,  \\ 

*»*  4to.  title  one  leaf  +  seven  unnumbered  leaves  +  two  hundred 
and  seven  numbered  leaves. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

The  present  is  evidently  a  translation  into  French 
of  our  No.  126.  The  first  part,  which  is  a  version 
ot  Peter  Martyr's  abridgment  of  the  fourth  Decade, 
made  for  Clement  VII   {supra,  page  187,  No.  no),  is 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


287 


dedicated  to  the  Duke  d'Angouleme.  On  leaf  132 
there  is  3  new  dedication  to  "  Marguerite  de  Flandres 
tante  de  Lempereur ;"  and  from  leaf  155  to  the  end  we 
find  the  Epitotne  de  les  Seconde  et  Tierce  Narrationes  de 
la  mar  Oceane  de  Ferdinant  Cortese,  translatee  de  latin  en 
francoys. 

Direct  refertncei:  (  Maittaire,  ylnnalet  Tyfitgr.,  Vol.  ii,  Part  II,  page  77*. 
Panzer,  jinnalet  Tyfogr.  Vol.  viii,  page  153. 
NicERoN,  Mcmoirei,  Vol.  x.Mll,  page  112. 
TtRNAux,  No.  37. 
Brunit,  Vol.  I,  col.  193. 

Iliuor.  Typogr.  alj.  Parisitnj.,  Part  II,  page  9. 
Bihiioiheca  Hehcriana,  Part  X,  No.  2189. 
Bibliolhtca  Grenvilliana,  p.ige  17. 
Bihliotheca  Broivniana,  pjge  16,  No.  52. 
Hibbert  Catalogue,  No.  5205,  and  Raetzel's,  No.  1 1 59. 


1532. 


168.  CORTES  (FERN/INDO)— Within  a  border,  composed  of 
twenty-five  escutcheons  of  Spanish  provinces  and  towns. 

l?t»  DE  INSVLIS  NV||PER  inventis  fer- 
DiNANDi  coRTEsii  ||  ad  Carolum  V.  Rom. 
Imperatorem  Narrationes,  cum  alio  |1  quo- 
dam  Petri  Martyris  ad  Clementem  VII. 
Pon  II  tificem  Maximum  confimilis  argu- 
menti||libello.|l^  His  acceflerunt  Epiftolas 
duae.  de  feliciflimo  apud  IndosHEuangelij 
incremento,  quas  Tuperioribus  hifce  diebus 
qui- II dam  fratres  Mino.  ab  India  in  Hif- 
paniam  tranfmiilerunt.H^  Item  Epitome 
de  inuentis  nuper  Indiae  populis  idolatris|| 
ad  fidem  Chrifti,  atcp  adeo  ad  Ecclefiam 
Catholicam  conuer-Htendis,  Autore  P.  P. 
F.  Nicolao  Herborn,  regularis  obferuantise, 


■V- 


I 


288  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1 53 2*  ordinis  Minorum  Generali   CommifTario  || 

'■™''''™  Cifmontano.ll 

%  Venduntur,  in  pingui  Gallina.||  Anno 
M.D.XXXII.II 

Then,  portrait  of  the  Emperor. 
Colophon  OH  ret  to  of  the  last  leaf: 

^  ColoniaE  ex  officina  Melchioris  Noue- 
fiani,  Anno  MUDXXXII.  Decimo  Ka- 
lendas  menfis  Septembris.|| 

Verso  of  the  last  leaf,  after  a  printer's  mark,  with  the  inscription : 

IN    PINOVI   GALLINA  : 

f  Colonise,  Impenfis  honefti  ciuis  Ar-|| 
noldi  BircKman.  Anno  Domini  ||  M.  D. 
XXXII.  MenfellSeptembri.il* 

•^j*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  three  preliminary  unnumbered  leaves 
+  eight  unnumbered  leaves  for  De  Insults  +  thirty  leaves  for 
the  Second  Narration  -|-  thirty-three  for  the  Third  Narration 
•4-  seven  unnumbered  leaves. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  Yurk  and  Providence.) 


'< 


This  translation  of  the  Second  and  Third  Narrations 
of  Cortes  contains,  besides  Peter  Martvr's  De  Insults, 


*  Jitigliii :  The  Narrations  oi  Fernando 
Cortes  to  Charles  V,  Emper.ir  of  Germany, 
coiicerninn:  the  islands  Utcly  disiovcred, 
with  a  certain  other  tract  oj  Peter  Martyr, 
to  Pope  Clement  VH.cn  a  similar  subject. 
To  these  are  a.lJed  two  letters  referring  to 
the  most  fiirtunate  increase  of  the  Gospel 
among  the  Indians,  which  certain  friars  of 
the  Minorite  order  transmitted  formerly 
from  India  to  Spain.  AUo  an  Epitome 
concerning  the  conversion  of  the  idolatrous 
people  of  India,  lately  discovered,  to  the 


Christian  faith,  and  to  the  Catholic  Church, 
by  the  Rev.  Father  Nicholas  Herbom, 
General  Cismonlanc  Commissary  ot  the 
order  of  the  Minorirej  of"  the  regular 
observance. 

Sold  at  the  Fat  Htm,  i  53J. 

Cologne,  from  the  office  ot  Melchi<ir 
Novesianus,  1 5  31.  tenth  Kalend  -  i  Sep- 
tember. 

Cologne,  printed  by  the  honest  citizen 
Arnold  Bircknian,  A.  D.  IJJX,  month  oi 
September. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  189 

a  letter  from  Friar  Martin  de  Valencia',  dated  June    1532' 
1 2th,  1 53 1,  at  the  convent  of  Thalmanaco  in  Yucatan,  ■ 

and  other  letters  sent  from  Mexico  by  Zumarraga,  the 
first  bishop  of  that  city,  which  will  be  found  in  the 
Novus  Orbis  of  1555*. 


Diretl  reftrimttll 


PANiri,  jtnnalei  Tyfegr.,  Vol.  TI,  page  413. 

MtL-sii.,  Btkti-.iktta  Hulorica,  Vol.  Ill,  Part  I,  page  269. 

TciNAi-x,  No.  39. 

Bihliiiktca  CrtHvilHana,  pige  1 67. 
Bihiitiktea  Heitriar.a,  Pjrt  I,  No.  1037. 
Bii.'iilieca  Briivniana,  |uge  17,  No.  55, 
Bihlhiktea  Bjr-'o^viaia,  page  8. 
SlevtnC  jtmtricaa  BiblUgrafhtr,  page  87. 


!l| 


169.    "  Martyrio   &c    y   tres   cartas   de   Mexico, 
4to. 

We  find  this  short  notice  in  Rich's  Supplement  under 
the  date  of  1532,  but  are  unable  to  add  anything  to  it. 
Niceron  states',  we  do  not  know  on  what  authority, 
when  speaking  of  the  Decades  and  especially  of  Hak- 
luyt's  edition:  "  II  y  a  eu  d'autres  editions  faites  pre- 
cedemment  en  Espagne,  dont  j'ignore  les  dates."  This 
may  be  one  of  those  early  Spanish  editions,  but  we  very 
much  doubt  its  existence  anywhere  and  at  any  time. 
Were  it  not  for  the  fact  that  the  above  title  is  in  Spanish, 
we  should  think  that  Rich  meant  to  refer  to  the  Cologne 
edition  of  Savorgnano's  Cortes  [infra),  which  contains 
the  De  Insults  of  Peter  Martyr,  and  several  letters  from 
Mexico. 


'  "(V«t«»ci*,  M»«T«»)— Utiigiiao  dd  ofdeii 
dc  San  Francisto:  Sifi&m  la  'ilU  it  Don  Jiian, 
dc  Ca>'.ilU  la  Vicja,  fue  una  it  kx  primcrui  Kcli- 
gicnoi  ^ue  pasarori  a  la  Nucva  E«paAa  el  afio  de 
1 114,  con  celo  apoftoJico  de  la  coovenjon  dc  lo« 
Yiidios,  y  de  \m  i\-aK  mas  ftnio  cofieron  ;  era  de  laii 
coniumaja  virf  ud  -lue  marib  en  opinion  de  ^ant.dad 
en  el  Pueblo  de  Tlamanako,  dilute  par  Iradicion 
dicen  que  ha  obrado  D:o«  muchos  milaproi  por  su 
intercesion  \  y  tt  mantabo  ta  caerpo  enlero  treinla 
afioi  detpuei  de  »u  muerre,  con  vcneracioti  de 
tqaeUst  Natuialc*,  haua  que  cod  cI  diKuru  del 


liempo  le  ha  ocultado  su  fepultura,  apesar  de  la 
diligcnL-ias  que  hati  hechc*  los  Rcligiosos  de  su  ordeii 
para  eiicnritrarla:  cscribio; 
Cjrrat   sobre  diterentes  cosas  de  los  Yndios : 

IJIlfol. 

HI   Lutero   de    las    almas   de    Kulcetan  [lit]  y 
Nucva  Espaiia  :  i;ji,  fol." 

(.AlcKDO,  Biil.  Am.  MS.) 

*  PP-  536-677- 

*  Mimoiret  pour  icrvir  a  rhiitoire  del 
hommtt  illuiirei,  Vol.  XXIll,  p.  ZIZ. 


37 


290  Bibliotheca  yimericana. 

^532*     170.    ZIEGLER  {J.)-Recto  of  the  fint  leaf: 
~  QVAE  II  INTVSCON  llTINENTVR.il  SYRIA,    ad 

Ptolomaici  operis  rationem,  Prajtcrca  Stra- 
bojlne,  Plinio,  &  Antonio  audoribus  lo- 
cuplctata.  II  PALESTiNA,  iifdem  aiidoribus. 
Praeterca  Hi-||ftoria  facra,  &  lofepho,  & 
diiio  Hieronymo  locupletata.  ||  arabia  Pe- 
traea,  fiuc,  Itinera  liliorum  Ifrael  per  de-|| 
fertum,  iifdem  audoribus.  ||  aegyppvs,  iif- 
dem auctoribus.  Prsterea  loannejl  Leone 
arabe  grammatico,  lecundum  receotiorum 
locorum  fitu,||illufl:rata.||scHONDiA,  tradita 
ab  audoribus,  qui  in  ciuso-||  peris  prologo 
memorantur.il  HOLMiAE,  ciuitatis  regi^,  fue- 
ticE,  deplorabilis  exci-  |I  dij  Chriftiernum 
DaticE  cimbricae  regem,  hiftoria.  ||  region- 
VM  iuperiorum,  fmgulse  tabulae  Geogra|| 
phica;.  II 

ARGENTORATi  \apud  Pctfum  Opilionem.|| 
M.  D.  XXXII. 


*^*  Folio,  one  hundred  and  ten  numbered  leaves  -|-  eighteen  un- 
numbered leaves,  occupied  with  maps  and  incastigtionem, 

(British  Muieum.) 

"  min.  charta  et  typis  niti  dissimis'." 

Jarries  Ziegler  or  Ciglerus*  was  a  Bavarian  theologian, 
born  in  1480,  who  cultivated  mathematics  and  cosmog- 


'  MiusEt,  Bibh  Hittor.,  Vol.  I,  Part  ii,  p.  95.         '  ScHtrrM,  Sutcia  Lit.,  p.  a/j. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


lg\ 


raphy  with  success,  and  died  in   1549.     We  suppose    1^32. 

that  the  above  is  the  book  referred  to  by  Mr.  Biddle',    ,11 l, 

under  the  title  of  "  Ziegler's  work  on  the  Northern 
Regions  (Argent,  ed.  of  15.32.  fol.  92.  b.)"  in  reference 
to  Cabot's  voyage.  It  is  the  only  work  of  Ziegler  which 
was  printed  at  Strasburg  in  1532,  and  although  the 
words  "  Liber  de  re^ionibus  septenlrionalibus"  do  not 
appear  on  the  title,  we  know  that  there  is  a  part  of  the 
work  devoted  to  the  northern  regions  (under  the  quaint 
name  of  Sc/tondia,  which  Ziegler  uses  for  Groenland,  Ice- 
hind,  &c.),  and  which  was  published  under  Biddie's  title 
latinized,  but  only  in  1542  {supra}. 

In  the  chapter  on  Sc/iondia,  under  the  head  of  Groen- 
/andia,  on  the  reverse  of  leaf  xcii,  the  author  says: 

"  Pctrus  Martyr  mcdiolancnfis  in  hifpanicis  nauigatioibus 
fcribit,  Antoninium  qucndam  Cabotum  folucntcm  a  Britannia, 
nauigaUb  continue  ucrfus  Icptcntrioncm,  quoad  incident  in 
crultas  glatialcs  incni'c  lulio,  indc  ergo  conui-rlum  rcmigafFc 
continue  fccundum  littus  lefc  incuruans  aultrum  ucrlus,  donee 
ueniret  ab  fitum  contra  Hifpaniam  fupra  Cubam  inlulam  Cani- 
balum,"  &c. 

Moreri*  mentions  a  work  of  Ziegler  which  may  have 
some  bearing  on  the  subject :  De  Rebus  Indicis  liber; 
unless  it  is  the  chapter  de  Moluccis  insulis,  added  to  the 
edition  of  1542. 


Direct  rtftrtnctt 


:  (  Fheytac,  ^na, 
•j  Mkusel,  Bihiii 
(  Panzek,  jinna 


Fheytac,  ^naUela  Liti,,  page  1 1 14. 

liothrta  lliiiorica,  VdI.  I,  Pjrt  II,  p»ge  9;. 
nna/ci   Tyfogr.,  Vol.  VI,  page  111,  No.  I  zl. 


17  1.    nUTTICU  OR  GRYNMUS— Recto  of  the  fini  leaf: 

NOVVS  ORBIS  REGIOii 

NVM      AC     INSVLARVM      VKTERIBVS      INCOGMTA- 

RVM,||una  cum  tabula  cofmographica,  & 

•  Memoir  of  Setunian  Cubul,  p.  31  *  Ui^ii'.nr.aire  (igth  eJit.  ,  p    I  iS. 


.^  ^ 


292  Bibliotheea  yfmerieana. 

1532.  aliquot  alijs  confimilisHargiimenti  libellis, 
quorum  omnium  catalogusUfcqucnti  patc- 
bit  pagina.  ||  His  acceint  copiofus  rerum 
memorabilium  index.  || 

iv  rpiddtf}  eJfit. 
Then  printer's  mark  and  : 

Fat.i  uiam  inucnicnt. 

Basileae    apvd    Io.    Hervagivm,   Mense 
Martio,  Anno  m.d.xxxii.* 

%*  Title    one    leaf  4- twenty-three    unnumbered    leaves -f  pagei 
numbered  584.     Woodcuts  on  pages  30  and  129. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

"  Ed.  collectionis  prima',"  and  certainly  an  invaluable 
collection,  which  reflects  credit  upon  John  Huttich,  who 
alone  compiled  it.  Simon  Gryn.x'us  onlv  wrote  the  pref- 
ace, yet  it  bears  the  latter's  name,  and  having  been 
printed  by  Hervagius,  Meusel'  calls  the  present  work 
Co//ec lio  Huttichio-(jrytheo-Herva^iano. 

John  Huttich  was  born  at  Mentz  towards  1480,  and 
died  in  1544,  at  Strasburg,  where  he  held  one  of  the 
canonships  in  the  Cathedral  of  that  city'.  "  Er  war  ein 
grosser  Freund  der  Alterthiinier,"  says  Jocher*. 

As  to  Simon  Grynxus,  he  was  an  inveterate  talker', 
one  of  the  early  Reformers,  the  personal  friend  of  Luther, 
Calvin  and  Melancthon,  and  the  fortunate  discoverer 
of  the  last  five  books  of  Livy,  hitherto  lost,  and  after- 


*  ^"5!'''  ••  A  new  glube  of  regions  and 
islands  unl<nown  to  the  ancients,  togetlier 
wi'.h  a  co5m.,gra|-hicai  table,  and  some 
other  treatises  containing  sin-.ilar  things ; 
the  catalogue  ot"  which  uill  appear  on  the 
following  page.  An  index  of  memorable 
things  has  been  added. 

"  1  am  obvious." 

"  Destiny  will  work  iti  way  out." 


Basle,  at  John  Hervagius",  March,  1531. 

'  Kloss  Catalogue,  No.  2887. 

'  Bih/iciitij  Uiiiitua,  Vol.  Ill,  Pt.  I, 
p.  III. 

'  Johannes,  Scripiortt  Hitior.  Mogun- 
lin..  ,  Vol.  Ill,  p.  321. 

♦  ^U^emeinet  Gtlthrt.  Lexic,  Vol.  11, 
col.  1771. 

•  HuiT,  Je  clar.  intirf,,  Vol.  I,  p.  166. 


f ' 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


493 


wards  published  by  I'>asmus.     Not  less  than  seven  of 
his  descendants,  all  bearing  the  name  of  Grynaeus,  have  < 
acquired  great  reputation   as  scholars  and  theologians. 
He  died  in  1541". 

Baillet  says  of  the  printer^: 

••  Erasmc  estimait  fort  flirtuigius,  ie  disait  que  nous  avons  obliga- 
tion  a  Aide  dc  nous  avoir  donne  le  premier  le  Prince  dcs  Orateuri 
[PosKrior  S(alig(ran.  page  ^\\,  mais  que  nou5  sommes  bcaucoup  plus 
redcvables  a  Hervagius  de  I'avoir  mil  en  un  ciat  beaucoup  plus  accom- 

Fili,  k  de  n'avoir  cpargne  aucunc  depense  ni  aucun  soin  pour  lui  donner 
a  perfection." 

The  chapters  which  are  of  importance  to  the  student 
of  American  history  are  : 

The  first  three  voyages  of  Columbus,  pp.  1 1  ;-i  18. 

Vinccntc  Yancz  Pinzon's  voyage,  pp.  122-130. 

The  duplicate  of  Vcspuccius'  third  voyage,  pp.  130-142. 

The  four  voyages  of  Vespuccius,  copied  from  Gruninger's  edition 

(  No.  60),  pp.  184-187. 
The  extract  of  the  fourth  Decade  of  Peter  Martyr,  pp.  570-584. 

Mr.  Grenville  says': 

"The  Title-Page  announces  a  Map,  with  a  description  of  the  Map 
by  Munster',  but  no  map  has,  as  far  as  I  can  learn,  ever  been  seen  in 
this  edition.  Neither  do  Camus,  Meusclius,  Maittaire,  Panzer,  or 
any  of  the  Bibliographical  books  appear  to  have  noticed  in  this  and 
in  the  subsequent  editions  the  constant  deficiency  of  the  map." 

We  have  been  more  fortunate,  for  not  only  do  we 
know  of  a  number  of  catalogues'"  which  advertise  the 
Novus  Orbis  of  Basle,  i  532,  "  with  a  map,"  but  we  have 
seen  several  copies  of  the  latter  edition  which  contained 
it.  Whether  they  were  the  maps  really  belonging  to 
the  work,  and  described  by  Munster,  we  are  unable  to 


•  Athtnaf  Kauricat,  p.  71. 

'  /ugements,  Vol.  I,  p.  381,  and  Bji/. 
BuchJruck.,  p.   117. 

•  Bibliotheca  Grtnviltiana,  p.  498. 

•  In  ijhulam  cmm  j^rafhiir  iniriductio 
per  Sehaittanum  MunUtrum.  It  is  in  this 
kind  of  geographical  treatise  that  uccuri 
the  passjge  so  olten  quoted  : 

"  In  Oceano  occidcntali  fcri  uouut  Oibii  noKrit 


temporibui  ib  Alberico  Veipulio  et  Chriitnphoro 
Columbn  multia  jue  alijs  insiciiibui  uiris  inventus 
est  ifui  lion  abi  re  i|uartaorbif  pars  iiuiKupari  poresl. 
ul  jam  terra  nmi  sit  tripartita,  leit  qiiadripartita^ 
quum  hx  lndiaf).ririsuta^suama||;iiiiuJinc  Europam 
excctlaiit.  prtT'itTlim  ea  t|uam  ab  Amertcn,  primo 
iuuciitore.  Americam  vocaitt."    (Redo  of  dill*  ).) 

'•  See,  among  others,  Wakknaer's,  Tro- 
mcl's,  Tross',  Bihliallitca  lltbiriana.  Fart 
Til,  Nui.  2848  and  1849,  &c. 


«532. 


i; 


294 


liibliotheca  /tmericana. 


1532.    say,  as  no  two  copies  of  this  edition  had  the  same.     Wc 
■■  have  before  us  one,  which  is  as  follows  : 

On  one  line:  COSMCXiKA PI  I ICVS  VNIVKR- 
SALIS.  «4^  Then  a  highly  ornamented  border,  ami  two 
inscriptions  within  a  stpiare,  one  beginning  with  the  word 
INDIA,  and  the  other  SCV'I'ARVM.  The  newly 
rediscoyereil  world  is  represented  on  the  north  of  a  long 
strip  of  land,  bearing  the  inscription  Terra  do  Cuba;  the 
isthmus  is  cut  asunder,  as  in  the  Chinese  maps.  The 
southern  part  contains  these  words  only:  Parias  Cani- 
bali,  AMI-KK'A  ||  ll-.RRA  NOVA,  Prijilia.  Then, 
in  type  of  this  si/e,  Jie  word  : 


ASIA. 


This,  which  we  call  A,  we  are  inclined  to  consider  as 
the  genuine  maj).  We  have  seen  four  or  five  copies  of 
the  Noviis  Orhis  of  Basle,  I5;j7  (/;//>-</),  each,  containing 
a  map  which  is  literally  copied  from  the  jiresent,  but 
with  this  only  ilifterence:  the  word  ASIA  is  printci 
in  a  kind  of  type  somewhat  different  and  smaller.  The 
latter,  which  we  call  H,  is  also  frecjuently  seen  in  the 
Novus  (Jtbis  of  Hasle,   1555. 

Another  Novus  Orbis  of  Basle  15J2",  contains  a  map 
bearing  the  following  inscription  : 

'rabuhi  noiianim  Inliilanim,  cjiias  diucT- 
iis  rci'pcdibus  Occidcntalcs  &  Indianas 
uocant. 

In  ihi',  which  we  call  C,  the  word  AMI'.RICA  is 
not  to  be  found;  we  only  reail  on  the  southern  part  of 
this  continent : 

"  Nou  orbis,"  Infula  Atlantica  (piam  uocant  Brafd 
&  Americain,"  ami  Xlf  Mvt  ||  Jll^fH.  || 


"  Bihlhthtta  Bmuniana,  \\  i6,  Nu.  51. 


Bibliotheca  /Imericana. 


295 


It  is  in  appearance  entirely  difFerent  from  A  and  B;     I  C'2  2. 

and,  if  our  niemf)ry  serves  us  right,  we  think  it  helongs  __««___ 
to  some  of  rhi-  small  folio  I'lolemies.  At  all  events,  we 
find  in  the  Ptolemy  of  II.  I'etrus,  Basle,  1540  (itifra), 
one  which  resembles  it  in  many  respects.  The  chief 
differences  between  the  latter  and  C,  consi'.t  in  a  different 
title,  the  absence  of  the  (jerman  inscri|)tion,  and  the 
addition  of  a  large  caravel  on  the  Pacific,  close  to  the 
Southern  c(>ntinent. 

The  demand  for  bibliographical  rarities  of  this  kind 
always  brings  a  supj)ly.  The  imagination  of  book- 
sellers is  fertile,  as  collectors  know;  the  Plo/emies  and 
Munsters  published  at  Basle  in  large  numbers  have  not 
all  found  their  way  into  the  waste  basket,  and  we  fancy 
that  these  present  an  easy  method  of  supplying  the 
cartographical  deficiency  in  the  Novtis  Orbis,  s(j  fre- 
quently complained  of 

The  edition  of  I'aris,  15.32  (No.  172),  contains  no 
additions.  That  of  Basle,  1557  {infra),  has  Maximilian 
of  Transylvania's  Letter  concerning  Magellan's  Voyage. 
In  the  etlition  of  Basle,  1555,  the  following  have  been 
ailded  :  The  Corte/  Narrations  (Second  and  Third),  the 
letters  on  the  propagation  of  the  (iospel  among  tne 
Indians,  the  epistle  of  the  Bishop  of 'Temixtitan  "in  Hu- 
ketan,"  and  the  summary  of  I  lerborn's  Discourse  on 
the  conversion  of  the  liulians  to  the  Catholic  faith.  As 
to  Baltha/ar  LyiTius'  edition'*,  Brunet  says: 

"  Cc  rccucil  rctilcrrnc  la  panic  dc  la  cijllciiion  ilc  (irvii.fus  i|ui  se 
rapporti:  a  l','\tin;ri(|iic,  ct  ilc  plus  la  cli  ,.ii:rt.itic)ii  ilc  Varrfriiis,  vtii- 
gaircmcii'  noiniiic'  C'lii/iiir  Hiirri'iroi,  iicvt-u  Ju  ccl'.-hri:  (can  tit;  Harris." 

'This  "  partie  (jui  St.  rapporte  a  rAmerii|ue,"  con- 
sists of: 

Navigtitio  Criitof'ori  V.ohmhi. 
"  (''inzi'Htii  I'inxoni. 

"         Americi  l^esputii. 


"  Navux  orhiiyiii  f\t  naviftiilione:  ptiitur      f^urrfrii    iliimrwm    dt    Orphyra    rfgioHt  ( 
in    Amtntam  s    ifuibui   aJjuHximui    Oaif.     KutlvrUjin,  iivo,  1616 


^53^' 


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Bibliotheca  Americana. 

P.  Martyr,  He  Insulis  nuper  inventis. 
Ferdinandi  Cortesii  narrationes. 
Nic.  Herborn,  de  Indis  convertendis. 


All  taken  from  the  1555  edition. 

Cornelius  Ablijn's  version  in  Dutch",  contains  in 
addition  the  first  three  decades  of  Peter  Martyr.  Under 
the  date  of  1534,  we  describe  Michael  Herr's'*  trans- 
lation into  German,  which  gives  only  the  chapters  in  the 
original  of  1532. 


Dirtcl  rtftrtncti  : 


Mf.usEL,  Bihltothtctt  Hiilorita,  Vol.  in,  Part  I,  page  i»i. 

PANir.ii,  Annalt$  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  IX,  pjge  405. 

Rich,  No.  7. 

TiBNAUX,  No.  38. 

Camus,  Ultmthei  lur  de  Bry,  page  6. 

BnuNf.r,  Vol.  IV,  tol.  iji. 

T«oMii.,  page  3,  No.  4. 

Ci'al.  Bihlioih.  T/itrniana,  V1I.  n,  page  150. 

Bihliotheca  Barlotviana,  page  1  i. 


172.     IDEM  OPUS-Reao  of  the  first  U.if: 

NOVVS   ORBIS    RE- II 

GIONVM     AC    INSVLARVM     VE-  i|  tcHbuS     inCOg- 

nitarum,  una  cum  tabula  cofmographica, 
8c II  aliquot  aliis  confimilis  argumenti  libel- 
lis,  quorum  ||  omnium  catalogus  fcqucnti 
patebit  pagina.  ||  His  accclllt  copioius  re- 
rum  mcmorabilium  index.  || 


^*  Dit  Nhutvtfytf  nil  JtrLanJi, chap.  Vjnder  Lor,   fol  ,  1  563.     >  4  11     813   np 

ftn   injf    tylarJtn   ./,,  ,0,    k:,r   to,    alitn  B.  L.     (IMvatr  Library,  I'ruvidcnce.     See 

eudin  n  entU  httcknbtrtn  iniehni  f-ewfut  Bihlicttitcj  br<,uniana.  No.  138.) 
^X"       tVo'r     nu    .„,„rf    vamitn    l'o:,,u.  "Not    AVr,  4»  it   is  printed   Ji.»ra,  p. 

galtiurtH  HI  Uiipanieiini    Arilwiip,  Jan  64,  in  line  7  of  note  loi. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


297 


Then  vignette  representing  a  galley  bearing  the  lilies  of  France, 
with  the  motto  : 

VOGUE      LA      GALEE.        PARISIIS     APVD     GALE- 

OTVvi  A  II  Prato,  in  aula  maiore  Palatii  regii 
ad  primam  columnam.  jj 

Colophon  : 

ImpreiTum  Parifiis  apiid  Antoniiim  Au- 
gcUcrum,  impcnris  loannisjl  Parui  8c  Gale- 
oti  a  Prato.  Anno  M.D.XXXll.  VIII.  || 
Calen.  Nouembris.  || 


1532. 


*  * 

* 


Folio,  ot  larger  size  than  No.  171  (  which  is  also  a  folio), 
title  one  leaf  (wiih  table  ot  contents  on  the  vers<j);  +  twenty- 
four  preliminary  Icivcs,  including  nineteen  of  index,  -\-  live 
hundred  and  t'uurlccn  |)aj;cs  (p.  ^iz  marked  ^02,  and  p.  ^14, 
marked  ^07  ),  4-  one  leat  containiiij;  on  its  mto  the  register 
and  colophon  ;  the  veij'j  blank.  Map.  The  woodcut  on  page 
30,  in  No.  170,  is  here  omitted. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  Jiij  Providence.) 


I 


The  map  in  one  of  the  copies  before  us,  instead  of 
being  that  which  is  usually  found  in  the  Paris  edition 
(described,  supni,  in  No.  171,  as  D),  is  the  map  which 
we  call  A  on  page  294.  '1  he  other  copy"  contains  Oron- 
tius  Fine's  map.  Cancellieri'  says  ot  this  edition  "piu 
rara  di  tutte." 


Dirtcl  rtftnntti!  I    Maittai«»,  Annaltt  Typogr.,  V.il.  II,  Part  II,  fife  77V 
i    Pan/mi,  Annaiti  Tyfifr.,  Vol.  vill,  page  155,  No.  ii^i. 
HuMBoi.DT,  F.xamni  Critique,  Vol.  IV,  |)a((e  111.  note. 
BnuNItT,  Vol.  I\,  'ol.   131. 
BihtiuhtiJ  Brotciihtna,  page  16,  No.  54. 
'   Diktioikei.1  Barlowiana,  page  Ij. 


'  Dmiria-ziam. 


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'532*  173.    HUTTICH  OR   GR  TNyKUS-Precisely  like  the  above,  with 

———-———•  this  cxieption : 

Instead  of  Galliot  Du  Pre's  printer's  mark,  there  is  jchan  Petit's, 
but  dittcring  somewhat  from   the  two  specimens  inserted  in  Brunct 
as  the  name  o[  the  printer   is  repeated   several  times  rcithin  the  vis-' 
nettc.  and  the  lions'  heads'  are  of  a  much  holder  type.    Then  below  : 

PARISIIS     AFVD    lOANNEMllPa- 

ruum    Tub    flore    Lilio,    uia    ad    fanctum 
lacobum. 

As  ro  the  map,  it  is  that  which  belongs  properly  to 
the  Pans  edition,  and  is  as  follows: 

In  a  scroll  :  ^  NOVA,  F/F  INTKGRA  VNI- 
VKRSl  OlUilS  i)KSCKli>TlO.  $-  Then  a  double- 
folded  homeotencal  mappcnuind.  On  the  richt  of 
the  reader  there  is  a  separate  continent,  bearing  the 
following  insonprions:  BKASIKLIK  RF.GIO  KF- 
GIO  PATALIS.  4fe   IFRkA  AVSTRALIS  RE ,  || 

Txri^'oT-V''!'  *^^  """^'^'  ^''"'"^  '-•ognita.llCIRCVLVS 
ANIARCIICVS;  and  below,  an  elongated  penin- 
sula rising  from  south  to  north,  and  containing  many 
words  in  small  type,  among  which  we  read:  Mons  paf- 
T!'i\^-  ^'■/''■'^"'fi-  ^'  ^'"^'-'A  K  real;  Monte  frezofo  and 
A  II  i\l  F  II  RI  II  CA.  II  On  the  left  of  the  readerfemerg- 
ing  from  the  border,  there  are  several  narrow  strips 
with  the  names:  Terra  Jionda,  Cuba,  Vtuatans,  lanaica 
Lf/J-  .^;?"V'-''  we  notice  a  coat-of-arms  exhibitinu  the 
dies  of  I-rance  quartered  with  three  dolphins.  In  the 
lower  part  of  the  map,  within  a  square  frame,  the  in- 
scription : 

"Orontius  .  F.'  Delph  .  ad  lectorem." 

Orterimus  tihi,  candidi  lector,  vniversam  orbis  tcrrarvm  dcscrio 
nonem.juxta  recentmm  C.eographorum  ac  Hydrographorum  menterE. 

olll .';  '•,""'■'"  ■'^\.^;"'^-.  .  Wh.n  w..  ra  .  knowledge,  especially  in  matter,  pertaining 
ol lea  the  w„n,i..rtul  aa>v„y  ,li.pUyed  by  t,.  C...,mo«r..rhv,  and  his  skill  .  sT  Z" 
th..   un.ortun,,.c  mun,  ,he  extent  .,f  his     r..pher.  «<•    ..rr    inclined    „,   believe     h« 


».J»»I' 


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Bibliotheca  Americana, 


199 


seruatatum  i^quatoris,  turn  parallelorum  ad  eas  qune  ex  centris  pro- 
portione,  geniina  cordis  humani  (ornuila  in  piano  co-extensam  :  qiia- 
rum  la;ua  borcalem,  dextra  vero  Australcm  Miindi  partem  complec- 
titur  .  Tu  igitur  inunusculuin  hoc  liberalitcr  cxiipito  :  halietoque 
gratias  Christiano  Wechclo,  ciijus  fauorc  et  impen^is  h.xc  tibi  coin- 
municarimus  .  Vale,  1531.     Mcnse  Julio." 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


^532. 


Dirtet  rt/irencei  1  f  At.ctvo,  Bihiioiheca  Americana,  MS.,  Vol.  ir,  page  641. 
\  Asher  Catalogue  fur  1865. 


I'J^,  FRANCK  (SEBASTIAN)-'' V^t\\\mc\\:    fpicgcl  viui    I533«* 
bildnir/,  des  gantzen  erdbodens  in   4   Muchern,  neurlich  " 

in  Afiam,  Aphrica,  b.uropam  vnd  America  von  neu- 
wcn  vnhekanten  welten,  Infcln  vnd  crdtrichcn  fo  ncwiich 
erfunden  worden  fcindt  geftclt  und  ahgtjthcilt  .  .  .  iiitt 
aus  Berofo,  Joanne  de  niontevilla,  S.  Brandons  Hif- 
tori  und  dergleichen  fabeln,  fundc'r  aus  angenummenen 
glaubwirdigen  erfainen  weltbefchrihern  nuilllig  zu  liaufF 
tragen  etc.     Tiih.,  Ulr.  Morhart  1533.  in-fol." 

(Oraessh'.) 

This  edition  is  the  earliest  we  could  find  of  Sebastian 
Franck's  well-known  Mirror  of  the  II  'orld.  We  describe, 
infra,  under  the  dates  of  1534  and  1542,  original  copies 
of  this  curious  work,  which  was  translated  into  I'leniish 
in  1563. 


the  following  may  contain  some  curious 
matter  concerning  ihc  New  Worlii:  "  I'ro- 
tomathrlis :  opus  varium,  ac  Icitu  non 
minus  utile  i)uam  necellarium.  I've.  Pjri/iii 
iifiuti  Simonem  Colinafum  MUX XX II.  f'A, 
<um  fi^^.  Main.  II.  p.  76)t.  liiht.  Thott. 
Ml.  I't.  I.  p.  a  "—(Panzer.) 

Tile  tliiril  part  ot  the  Proiomat/ifiis  bears 
tlic  title  of  De  Coimngraf/iiii  iive  minJi 
iphttra  l.ihri  A^,  ami  it  is  in  tlii;.  tliat  llie 
reader  who  hai.  access  to  the  worli  iiiiiat 
look  ("or  tlie  patsnijes,  if  anj  there  be, 
relating  to  America. 

'  Tr,ior,  Vol,  II,  p.  6^7,  contains  .ilio 


a  notice  of  an  ejition  of  l?H'  *hich 
may  lOily  he  the  edition  ul  1^36,  which 
bears  the  date  of  15^41111  the  litlc-page 
and  '■  i.iusent  funti  luiii.lert  vier  und  drcys- 
segsten  jar,"  in  the  CVili^phon. 

*"  KDKN  (RICH Alii))— TtiMUe  ..f 
the  new  India,  with  tillier  Newfound- 
landes  and  llandes.  Lond.  E.  Sucton, 
1535."  (I.owNoits,  Bil>liiij;r.  Miinu.il.  sec- 
ond editiiin,  Part  111,  p.  711;  llKiNEr, 
UxArsHi!,  ivc.) 

'I'liia  ii  only  Kdcn's  tranilailon  of 
Monster,  and  >hould  read  I^S?  instead 
of'SU' 


joo  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

'533*  ^75'     COLU.MBIAS  ( CHRliiT()VHER)—Reclo  of  the  first  Itaf ; 

BKLLVM    CHRISTI/llANORVM    prin- 

CIPVM,   PRAECIPVE    GALLO  1|  RVM,  CONTRA   SARA- 

cENos,  ANNO  sALVTis  ||  M.Lxxxviii  pro  terra 
fandta  gcftum  :  autorc  ||  roberto  momacho 
\sic\  II  carolvs  Vcrardus  de  expugnatione 
regni  Granatae  qus  con  jj  tigit  ab  hiiic  quad- 
ragclimo  fccundo  anno,  per  Catholicu 
rcgcm  II  Ferdinandum  Hilpaniarum.H  Crif- 
tophorus  Colom  de  prima  inrulariim,  in 
mari  Indico  litarum,||  luilratione,  qus  Tub 
rcgc  Ferdinando  Hifpaniarum  fada  eft.  || 
Dc  Icgationc  regis  Aethiopia^  ad  Clemen- 
ten:  pontiHcem  vii.  ac  Rcgc  Portugallice  : 
item  de  regno,  hominibus,  atqj  moribus 
cius/  II  dem  populi,  qui  Trogloditae  hodie 
cHe  putantur.  II  loan.  Baptifta  Fgnatius  de 
origine  Turcarum.  ||  Pomponius  Lcctus  de 
exortu  Maomethis.  ||  Lector  humaniflime 
habes  hie  opus  quarundam  hiftoriaru,  quas|| 
iam  primu  typis  noftris  ex  antiquo  & 
fcripto  exemplari  in  com  ||  modum  tuum 
euulgauimus.il basileae  excvdebat  henricvs/ 

PETRVS     MENSE    AVGVSTO.  jj 
Colophon : 
BASILEAE     EXCVDEBAT     HENRICVS     PE/  ||  TRVS 
MENSE    AVGVSTO    ANNO  ||  M.D.XXXIII.  || 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


301 


*  *  Folio;  title  one  leaf, -f  iiuicx   in  two  unnumbered  leaves, -f-      ^533' 
one  blank,  +  one  hundred  and  torty-nine  numbered  leaves, -4-  _^^^^_ 
one  leaf,  blank  on  the  recto,  with  printer's  mark  on  verso. 
(Private  Lilirar.,  Nrw  V«irk  aiiJ  Providence.) 

The  early  authors,  when  referring  to  the  first  letter 
of  Columbus,  generally  quote  this  collection.  The  De 
Insulis  is  inserted,  pages  1 16-121,  umler  the  following 
title:  Christophorus  Cohimb  \sic)  de  prima  Insularum  in 
mart  Indicio  siiarum  lustratione. 

"  Kt  pour  ce  ^ui  est  d'Hcnric  Petri  [the  printer,  born  in  1  508'] 
on  pcut  voir  ce  qui  est  sorti  de  sa  i>outique  liaiis  le  catalogue  cjue  ses 
heritiers  en  firent  imprimer  in-4'  a  Basle,  avec  une  continuation." 

(Baillkt'.) 

Dhtcl  refirtncti :      Panim,  jinnalet  Tyf>ogr.,  Vol.  VJ,  page  196,  No.  937. 
•     Ghaksse,  Vi>I.  II,  page  128. 

Bihliathfca  Crfnvi/iinnj,  pajif  610. 
Bihlmthaa  Browniana.  pajjc  17,  No.  57. 
Kluts  Catalogue,  page  24Q,  Nu.  3366. 

176.     MARTYR    [PETER)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

PETRI  MARTYRISilAB  anglkria  me- 
DioLANEN.  oRAioRis  ||  chiriirimi,  Fernandi 
&  Helilabcth  Hirpaniarum  quondam  rc- 
gum||a  coniilijs,  dc  rebus  Occanicis  6c  Orbe 
nouo  decades  tres :  quibus  |i  quicquid  de 
inuentis  nupcr  terris  traditum,  nouarum 
rerum  cupi-||dum  ledorem  retinere  polllt, 
copioie,  fideliter,  erudire(]j  docetur  |  eivs- 
DEM    praeterea  II  LKCiATlONIS    BABY- 

LONICAK      LI  II  BRI      TRES   :      \'BI      PRAEIER 

oratorii     mvneris  jl  pulcherrimum    exem- 

'  Bailer     Buchiirucktrgtuh.,    pp.     147  '  yugrmem   dti   Savatii    lur  Us  princi- 

149,  tai-simile  oi  the  printer's  mark,  and     fdux   ouvraf^ei    dts  auteuri.    Vol.    I,   page 
iketch  ol' Petri,  the  printer.  382. 


'JV 


302  BMotheca  Americana. 

1533.  pliim,ctiam  qiiicquid  in  iiariariim  gentium 
mori-ll  bus  &  inftitutis  infigniter  pryclarum 
uidit,  quy(|j  terra  maricp  accidcrunt,  omnia 
Icdu  mire  iucunda,  gcncrc  diccndi  poli- 
tillimo  traduniur.il 

Then  printer's  mark  (a  palm  tree  and  palma  beb). 

BAsiLEAE,  II  apud    loauncm    Hebclium  || 

M.D.XXXIII.JI* 

Colophon : 

Balilea;,  per  lo.  Bcbclium,  An.  a  Chrifto 
nato  M.  D.  XXXIII.  pridic  calcnd.  Scptcmb. 

\*  Elongated  folio;  title  one  Icaf+cleven  unnumbered  preliminary 
leaves  including  the  index  -f  ninety-two  numbered  leaves. 

(I'rivute  Libr.,  Nt«   V„rk,  I'rovi.lenir  jnd  W«hinjt..n  city.) 

Contains  only  the  first  three  decades,  and  the  abridg- 
ment of  the  fourth. 


Di'til  reftrtmsli  i 


Panii»,  ^n«alt,  Tyfogr..  Vol.  vi,  page  I97,  and  Vol.  u,  pjfe  407 
.McvtlL,  Bihli3t)ttcj  HiiloriiJ,  Vol,  |i|.  Part  I.  pan  fj 
Ri.H,  No.  «.  •  .  r  s      ,  J- 

Tknai'X,  No.  40. 

TkuMtL,  No.    5. 

Bihlioi/ieca  Hrhriunj,  Pjrt  vi.  No.  141 5. 
Bihliol^tca  Brownianj,  p.ijjc   1  •*,  No.  58. 
Rothclin  t'jtalogur,  No.  4351;. 

Kloss  Catalogue,  page-  lyj,  No.  S695,  JcKribe*  McJancthon".  topy 
with  marginal  notes. 


•  yl'igiiit  :  The  thrrr  drcaJes  ot'  Peter 
Martyr  J'Anghiera,  Milancsi-,  the  m.»t 
celebrated  orator,  tounsrllor  o('  tin-  late 
sovereigns  ol'Spain,  FrrJinand  and  l>abella, 
which,  by  srtting  torth  in  a  lopiou;,  (ailh- 
tul  and  learned  manner  everything  con- 
cerning the  countries  recently  discovered, 
may  captivatr  the  attention  ot"  the  reader 
curiout  ot'  novelties.     Also,  three  books  ot' 


the  same  concerning  his  ambany  to  Baby- 
Ion  [Cairo],  which,  besides  the  linest 
specimen  ot  oratorical  talent,  e«hibit>  in 
language  ni..jt  elegant  and  ot  the  highest 
interest  to  the  reader,  every  remarkable 
thing  seen  by  him  on  the  subject  of  the 
customs  and  institutioiu  ol'  the  diiferent 
nations. 

Basle,  at  John  Behelius',  15JJ. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  303 

177.     ZVMMARylOA  (J.\-Rtcto  tf  the  first  leaf:  ^533" 

Itti^ifl-  I  ^'^^^"  Aloitip  Xniiib.  iiuf|  brm  l!  oroffcit 
lllill|"  '  im  l)ol|fu  Worculoiili,  Dfii  iiiiiu  ||  rtcmciiu 
lidi  nriHrt  ^rirftrr  v^oijnit,  an  ^l^abft  ||  (^IrmciK;  ben 
«tbrn)irn,  ^h  ^ononia  brrliort  in  offncn  (^onfiftorio  am 
ixir.  tad  v^annarii  «nno  ||  Jil.  D.  .vv.vin.  •  Tlf(f« 
Vudllrine  jnlialt.  (^rftlidi,  («in  fnrt^r  (irfdircibunn  bed 
^orenlanbe,  fant|it  ber  (lanblunn  im  (^onfiftorio  ||  ^'{nm 
anbern,  ein  «eubbrieff  bee  .Uiinifid  bon  ^l^ortn  ||  nal  an 
S^abft  (Element  ben  «iebenben.  |i  ;{iim  britten,  (^iu  3enb- 
brieff  be«  ^Jlorenfonifl^ ;,  an  ^^nbft  (^'(ement.  ||  (^in  hir^ 
3umarinm  non  biffem  'JJ^areufoniq,  fei-||nf  ^^^oltfern,  bnb 
iren  bitten  am  (^nbe  bijee  'i^iidjleind.  *  ;{n  le^t  (^in 
ienbbrteff  bee  t^ifdioffe  ber  oroffem  ||  ftabt  ^emi^-titan 
in  ber  92enien  erfunbenn  i  melt,  flen  2olo[a  in  ^rani!  || 
reidi  oefdiribrN.ii 

**'   4'"'  "*'  ''*''"'  ""^  ''"''>  '■'''■'  "'"^  leat  -f-  eighteen   unnunilu'red 

leaves.      (Pri^jtr  Librir>,  Nrw  Y..ik.) 

"  L»  Icttrc  dc  I'cvcquc  dc  Tcmistitan  (villc  de  Mexico)  [juan 
Zummaraga],  adrcsscc  an  chapitre  dcs  Fraiu  iscains  tciui  cii  is'jz 
a  Toulouse,  qui  »c  trouvc  i<jintc  a  cct  (ipusciilc  en  traduction  allc- 
mandc,  traitc  dc  I'ctat  ci  du  progri-s  des  missions  dans  le  Nmiveau- 
Monde.  Le  tcxtc  original  sc  tr'Mivc  aussi  paiini  Ics  pieces  cuntenucs 
a  la  tin  dc  la  L'hronique  d'Amandus." 

(Tmi.M  *.!.'.) 

Tromcl  seems  inclined  fo  consider  \V[{)lfang]  Stockcl 
of  Dresden  as  the  printer  of  this  iniscciluiicous  collection. 
According  to  Santarenr,  Stockcl  exercised  his  traile  as 
early  as  1495.  Kalkenstcin  says'  "his  1519;"  while  the 
latest  date  ascribed  to  Sttickel  hy  I'an/.tr*  is  1524. 

'    H  4/.  Amir.,  p.  4.  N'j.  6.     Thi)  '|uiit4-  "  Di>lion,iire  /liiiiiogr.,  V'ul.  i,  p.  396. 

tion  4tipc««  of  Mr.    Atbrr't  aitrrtinn  it  '  (tutkichte  Jer  Uuihjruik,,  p.  181. 

made  in  hit  catalogue  Am  1(65,  Nu.  iH.  *  Annui'ei  Typogr.,  Vul,  xi,  p.  304. 


304  Bibliotheca  /1m  eric  ana. 

'533*  17^*    SCHONER  vy.)— Recto  of  the  Jint  Itaf: 

lOANNlS  SCHO/ 

NF.RI   CAKOLOSTADII   OPVSCV- 
lA'M    GIXHJRAPMK'V.M    KX    DIVKRSORVM    M 

bris  ac  cartis  fumma  cura  6c  diligcntia  col- 
ic ||  Chim,  acconiodatum  ad  rcccntcr  cla-j| 
boratiim  ab  codcm  globiini  dc-||  fcriptionis 
tcrrcna\ ||  ioach  1  m i   c.\ m erarii. || 

Forte  oculis  clari  (pcctas  qui  fulcra  coeli 

III  liibifctuni  c'tiam  Imuina  fletti-  loliim 

Noil  til  res  iiiiliiJiiia  tiia  ilia  iiipiiliiic  Icitor, 

ilia  mayis  puliia  f(l,  li;i'C  (|U(iii/,  piikra  taiucn. 

yuici  iliihitas  :   11  do  .ithcria  uitaiii  traliis  aura, 

Palniia  Icil  iiilus  &  tibi  priihet  iter. 

Hanc  uis,  quanta  patct,  brcuibus  cognolirerc  cartis. 

Hoc  modicum  lulhaiis  pcilpicf  K'ltor  upus. 

Ncc  ([u  r  luiii  olim  iiec  (|u;r  moilo  Icripta  retpiires 

Cuiicta  tibi  paruo  plana  tutura  libro. 

"  Ex  urbe  Norica  id  .  Novembris .  Anno  XXXllf." 


%♦  4to,  sine  itnno  ,iut  hio,  title  one  leaf  +  nineteen  unnumbered 
leaves,  woodcuts  of  globes. 

(Private  Library,  Providence.) 

It  is  in  this  work  that  the  reader  will  find  the  first 
(see  supra,  page  65)  of  tliat  long  series  of  calumnies 
which  have  fastened  on  the  meniorv  of  Vespucci  lis  the 
odious  charge  of  having  artfully  inserted  the  words 
"  'Verra  di  Amerigo'  in  charts  which  he  had  otherwise 
altered.  *'Americus  Vesputius  maritinia  loca  Indite 
superioris  ex  Hispaniis  navigio  ad  occidentem  perlus- 

'  BitHtthtta  Bro-wniana,  p.  17,  No.  56. 


Bibliotheca  .-/mericana. 


305 


trans,  earn  partem  quic  superioris  Indiac  est,  crcdidit 
esse  Insulani  quam  a  suo  iioniint:  vocari  instituit " 
Yet  it  is  a  noticeable  fact  that  Schtiner's  own  globe, 
made  in  1520,  and  still  preserved  in  the  city  library  ar 
Nuremberg,  gives  this  name  of  America  vel  Brasilia  sive 
papa^alli  terra  to  the  southern  part  of  the  new  continent. 
See  caps,  xx,  xxi,  Rejiiunes  extra  FtoUmiekm^  and  the 
last  page  for  a  notice  of  Bra/il. 

•'  Even  ill  1  $33,  the  attrunoiner  Schuncr  iiiiiintaincd  that  the  whoie 

ut  tl)c  so-calleil  New  World  was  a  pan  of  Asia  ,  supcriaris  Indiz), 
and  that  the  city  <it  Mcxicu  i  Teniiiititan  i  cunijuercd  by  Corte*.  wa« 
no  other  than  the  Chinese  coinmerrial  city  of  Quinsay,  so  excessively 

extolled  by  Marco  Polo." 

(HiiM«4)L1IT'.) 


«533' 


Oirici  rtfirtnctt :  I    UorrtLMAua,  Hiiior.  Nackr.  v.  iVvriiA.  MdtlUm^iicn,  pi«(c  jo. 
HuMRiil.Di,  Examen  Crilijue,  VdI.  v,  p4fc  l?l 
Santaiim.  yeif^Kt 
Calal.  BiilhlA.  Bunav.,  Vul.  II,  p4(r  )0 


I  yg.      APIANIUS  {l-JHERi-Move  a  vignette  of  a  mounted  gl*hi : 

COSMOCiRAPHI-  i  tvs   i.ihkr  I'Ktri  afiam  ma- ||  theni;t- 

tici,  lain  ilciiuo  intcgritati  icUitutu>  1  per  Gcmmam  Phrvfium.  ji 
Item  ciuldetn  CiemiiKf  Phrylii  Lihcllu!.  dc  Locorum  dc-  ||  Icribcn- 
(idiuMi  ratione,  &  dc  eoKiitt  disltaiitii>  in-  ||  ucnici)di!>,  nuiiq'  ante 
hac  vilus.  |i  V.tiicut  Antucipie  tub  Icuto  Balilicfi  p'  Grcgur-u 
Buiitiu.  II 
Colophon  : 

loan.     Graplicus     typis    cudebat     Antuerpiar,  ||  Annu     M.D. 
\ XXI II.  Ilinenlf  Feb'r.  || 

["  Veneunt  in  pingui  Gallina  per  Arnuldum  Birckman.'"] 

***  4to,  sixty-six  numbered  leaves. 

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'  Knimoi,    Entw.    e.   phyi.    lfe/t/>e$.ir.  *  "  P.  Apijni    Imirtdiutit  GftfrafiUaf 

\'iil.  11,  |>.  6n  ■it 'English  tr.iii  lation  InguUt  ,   t5}3,  4to."    (BitHfina  Htk*- 

•  MAirrAUK,  /i'lnaUi  Tyfx-^r,,  Vol    'i,  rianj,  Vm  v,  N...  jjc;*  ,  or  think  i*efi- 

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180.  IDEM  OPUS-''  Frib.  Brifg.,  Paris,  1533,  4*0." 

(Graesse.) 

181.  "  Marinei  Siculi.     Opus  de  rebus  Hifpaniae 
memorabilibus.     Compluti,  1533,  folio." 

{Bibliotheca  Heberiana^.) 

182.  IDEM-"  Ohr^i  de   las   cofas    memorables   de 
Efpana.     Alcala,  Eguia,  1533.  fol.— Gothic  Letter." 

^  (Ebert'.) 


183.  LOR/Tz-" Henrici  Gla||ream  Helvetii,  Poetae 
Lav-  II  reati,  de  Geographia  Li- 11  ber  vnvs,  ab  ipfo 
Av-llthore  iam  tertio  |1  recognitvs.  H  Apvd  Fribvrgvm 
Brif-Wgoiae,  An.  M.D.XXXIIL|1[Co/o;>/^ok]  Apvd  Fri- 
bvrgvm Brisgoicvm  11  Anno  M.D.XXXIIL  |i  Excvde- 
bat  loannes  Faber  |1  Emmevs  Ivliacensis.  ||  35  foliod 
leaves ;  and  one  with  woodcut  on  the  reverse.  4to." 

(Historical  Nuggets'  ) 


1534 


*         184.    IDEM  OPUS— "  De    Geographia,    woodcut  dia- 
-=  grams,   with   xylographic  inscriptions.     8vo.  Venetiis,  J. 
A.  de  Sabio,  1534" 

(Libri  Catalogue*.) 


I  p„t  ,1   No    3619.  *  Ternaux  mentions  (No.  44)  under  the 

^  Dictionan',' ^o.    13I13,   and    Bihiio-  date  of  1534:  "  Novus  orbis  regionum   ac 

theca  Heberiam,  Part  1,  No.  468 1 .  insularum  veteribus  mcogn.tarum,  5^sr/M. 

'  No     1247,  and   Maitt.mre,   Annaks  In-tol.       Deuxieme    edition,      which    we 

T\pozr     Vol  '11,  Part  11,  p.  786;   Pan-  think  to  be   only  the  following  German 

ZER  Annaks  Typographici  ab  artis  in-venta  translation  (No.  188),  with  a  title  borrowed 

erizine.  Vol.  vii,  p.  60.  for  :he  Bibliothique   A.viricaint  from  the 

*  For  1861,  No.  278.  edition  of  153*. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  3°7 

18  c.    FRANCIS  OF  BOLOGNA-Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  '  534* 

LA  LETERA  H  Mandata  dal  R.  Padre 
frate  Francefco  da  Bo  |1  logna,  da  Lindia, 
ouer  noua  Spagna:  &  dallal|Citta  di  Mex- 
ico al.  R.  P.  frate   Clemete  da  Mo  H  nelia, 
Miniftro  della  Prouincia  di  Bologna,  |1&  a 
tutti  li  Veneradi  padri  di  efla  prouinl|cia 
Tradotta  in  vulgare  da  vno  frate  |1  dil  pre- 
fato  ordine  de  minori  d'offerlluanza.  Doue 
fi  narra  la  moltitu-  11  dine   de   le   perfone 
che  fono  co  H  uertite  &  che  fi  conuertano  1| 
alia  fede,  &  il  grande   pre  H  fente   che  li 
hanno  ma/  H  dato   al   noftro  Papa  H  Paulo 
terzo,  la  qualita  dell'  acre  di  detto  mon/  H 
do    nouo,   la    gradezza    del    paefe,   I'oro, 
I'argeto,  H  e  pietre  preciofe,  la  bota  delle 
acque,  i  coftumi  H  del  vino,  di  monti,  boichi, 
animali,    &  gra  H  de   abondantia    di    tor-- 
mento,  &  altri  H  grani.  La  qualita  de  gli 
huomi  11  ni  &  d5ne,  gli  effercitn,  la  H  tede, 
la    ruina    de    loro  H  Idoli,    &   modi  11  che 
tenea  H  no    prima,   &   altre    infinite    cofe 
piace  11  uole  da  intendere.  11* 

Colophon : 

€  In  Venetia  per  Paulo  Danza.  |1 

V^;::^te7fronrd7R=ve.end  to  the  Reverend  Father  CJement  of  Mone- 
Father  Francis  of  Bologna,  written  from  '-,  Supe  -  of  '  -  ^  "J- ^j^^^,  „f  ^^al 
the  city  of  Mexico  in  India  or  New  Spam,     and   to   all  tne   reverena 


^J't'fi 


ni^ngn^p^fta 


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308  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1534*         ***  +*°'  ■""'  '"'""'  "'"  ^'"^'''  ''''^  °"^  leaf-f  six  unnumbered  leaves. 


4-  one  blank. 


(Private  Library,  New  Vorlt.) 


We  place  the  present  work  under  the  date  of  1534, 
on  the  authrrity  of  the  following  notice,  which  we  bor- 
row from  Orlandi' : 

"Francefco  AUe  Minore  Offervante  di  S.  Francisco.  Copia  di 
lettera  cavata  dall'  originale,  Icritta  dal  Mefico  I'anno  1534.31  fuo 
fratelli,  e  madre.     Zani,  nel  Genu  Fagante,  p.  4,  fol.  87." 

According  to  Panzer^  Paul  Danza  printed  between 
the  years  1526  and  1534. 

Ternaux^  published  a  translation  into  French  of  this 
interesting  Letter. 

Direct  reference  :  Rich,  Supplement,  page  I . 


186.     PETER  OF  GAND— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

CHRONICA  II  coMPENDiosissiMA  AB  ||  exordio  mundi  vfqz  ad 
annum  Domini  ||  Millefimum,  quingentefimu  trigefimu  ||  quan- 
tum :  per  venerandum  patrem.  F.  ||  Amandum  Zierixeenfem, 
ordinis  Fra  ||  trum  Minoru,  regularis  obferuan-  ||  tis,  virum  in 
Diuinis  &  huma  ||  nis  rebus  peritifTimum.  \  Eivsdem  tractatvs 
DE  II  feptuaginta  hebdomadibus  Danielis,  ||  Adiectae  svnt  epis- 
To  II  lae  duas  qua;  Chiiftiani  regis  Aethopis,  Dauidis,  ad  ||  Clemen- 
tern  feptimum,  Rhomanum  pontificem,  ||  anno  Domini  1532 
deftinatae,  cu  articulis  quibuf||dam  de  fide  &  moribus  Aethi- 
opum  Chriftiano-  ||  rum.  \  Aliae  quoqz  tres  epiftols,  ex  noua 
maris  ||  Oceani  Hifpania  ad  nos  tranfmiflk,  de  fru£tu  ||  mirabiJi 
illic  ilirgentis  nous  Ecclefis,  ||  ex  quibus  animus  Chriftianus  || 
merito  debeat  lastari,  || 

\  Antuerpiae   apud    Simonem    Cocum.      Anno    Do-  ||  mini 
M.CCCCC.XXXIIII.     Menfe  Maio.  11 


province.  Translated  into  tlie  vernacular 
language  by  a  brother  of  the  said  minor 
order  of  Observance.  Herein  is  shown  the 
great  number  of  persons  converted  to  the 
faith,  the  great  present  sent  to  our  Hope, 
Paul  III;  the  greatness  of  the  country;  the 
gold,  silver,  precious  stones;  the  good  qual- 
ity of  the  waters  ;  the  customs,  wine, 
mountains,     woods,    animals  ;     the     great 


quantity  of  wheat  and  other  grains ;  the 
constitution  of  the  men  and  women ;  the 
armies,  religion,  destruction  of  their  idols 
and  former  worship,  and  many  other  things 
very  well  worth  knowing. 

'  Notixie  degli  scrittori  Bolognesi,^.  117. 

'  Annates  Typogr.,  Vol.  XI,  p.  131. 

'  Recueit  des  pieces  relatives  a  la  conqueti 
dii  Mexi/jue,  1838,  pp.  205-221. 


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Colophon:  *S34' 

1  Symon  Coquus  Antuerpianus,  morans  i|  in  vico  vulgariter,  —-— = 
nuncupate  Die  Lom-  1|  baerde  vefte,  eregione  Manus  deaura-  1| 
ts,  excudebat.     Anno  Domini,  M.  ||  CCCCC.XXXIIII.  Menfe 
Maio.  II* 

*  *  Sm.  8vo ;  eight  unnumbered  leaves  +  one  hundred  and  twenty- 
eight  numbered  leaves. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Owl's  Head.) 

"Amandus,  surnomme  (says  Tromel)  de  Zierilczee,  de  sa  ville 
natale  dans  I'ile  de  Schouwen',  etait  un  religieux  franciscain  du  com- 
mencement du  XVI'  siecle,  qui,  comme  provincial  de  son  ordre,  con- 
tribua  beaucoup  a  I'amelioration  des  monasteres  dans  les  Pays-Bas. 
Par  la  suite  il  devint  professeur  de  theologie  a  Louvain  oii  il  mourut 
le  8  juin  1534'.  Ce  qui  nous  intcresse  le  plus  dans  sa  Chronique, 
nue  nous  avons  sous  les  yeux,  ce  sont  les  lettres  ecrites  par  differents 
religieux  residant  au  Mexique,  qui  s'y  trouvent  jointes  et  qui  traitent 
du  progres  des  missions  catholiques  dans  ce  pays.  Aucun  biblio- 
graphe  n'en  fait  mention  et  nous  ne  trouvons  nulle  part  une  citation 
de  ces  lettres,  qui  ne  sont  pas  sans  interet." 

Among  the  letters  mentioned,  there  is  one  by  Peter 
of  Gand,  alias  De  Mura,  dated  June  27th,  1529,  which 
has  been  translated  into  French  by  Ternaux',  from 
whom  we  borrow  the  following  note  : 

"  Frere  Martin  de  Valence  s'exprime  ainsi  au  sujet  de  ce  religieux 
[De  Mura]  dans  une  lettre  addressee  au  reverend  pere  Matthias 
Wevnssen,  general  de  son  ordre,  en  date  de  1531  :  "  Au  nombre  des 
t'reres  erudits  dans  la  langue  des  Indiens,  est  un  iaique  nomme  Pierre 
de  Gand,  il  s'exprime  dans  cette  langue  avec  beaucoup  d'eloquence, 
ct  instruit  avec  le  plus  grand  soin  plus  de  six  cents  enfants.  C'est  lui 
qui  a  la  direction  des  chceurs  dans  les  jours  de  fete.  II  marie  avec  les 
plus  grandes  solennites  aux  Indiens  qui  leur  sont  destines  pour  epoux 


*  AngUci  :  Very  compendious  chronicle 
beginning  with  the  creation  of  the  world, 
down  to  the  year  of  our  Lord,  1 S  34»  by  the 
Rev.  Father  F.  Amandus  Zierikzee,  of  the 
order  of  St.  Francis,  of  the  regular  observ- 
ance, a  most  learned  man  in  divine  and 
human  matters.  The  treatises  of  the  same 
on  the  seventy  weeks  of  Daniel.  There 
has  been  added  two  letters  of  the  Christian 
King  of  Ethiopia,  David,  addressed  to  the 
Roman  Pope  Clement  VII,  in  the  year 
1533,  together  with  some  items  concern- 
ing the  creed  and  customs  of  the  Christian 
Ethiopians.     Also,  three  other  letters  ad- 


dressed to  us  from  New  Spain  in  the  Ocean, 
concerning  the  wonderful  development  of 
the  new  church  which  is  springing  up 
there,  and  must  justly  rejoice  the  human 
mind. 

Antwerp,  by  Simon  Cocus,  A.  D.  1533, 
in  the  month  of  May. 

•  De  Wind,  Nederl.  Geschrid.,  p.  1 34. 
V.  Heussen,  Ondh.  -v.  Zetland,  Vol.  II, 
p.  52. 

"  FoppENs,  Bibliothtca  Belgica,  Vol.  I, 

•  Rtcueil  des  pieces  relatives  a  la  Conquite 
du  Mexique,  1838,  pp.  193-103. 


'W^*(W    ,«|»_VH.:' 


II  piiuq^iHiMiiiiii.  mii'mwrmim  .m.v^.'v 


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les  jeunes  filles  chretiennes  bien  instruites.  L'inip6ratrice  notre 
souveraine,  a  envoye  d'Espagne  six  respectables  et  savantes  religieusei 
pour  elever  ces  jeunes  filles,"  .  • 

Direct  references:  f  Meusel,  Bibliotheca  Historica,  Vol.  I,  Part  I,  page  98. 
-j   SwERTius,  Athentc  Belgica,  — . 
I  Tromel,  No.  8.  ,     ,.*'•    . 

Bibliotheca  Barkiuiana,  — . 
Nijhoff  Catalogue,  No.  84,  7. 

187.    BORDONE  {B.)—fVithin  a  wide  ornamented  border: 

ISOLARIO   II  DI     BENEDETTO     BORDONE  || 

Nel  qual  fi  ragiona  di  tutte  Tlfole  del 
men/  II  do,  con  li  lor  nomi  antichi  &  mo- 
derni,  ||  hiftorie,  fauole,  &  modi  del  lore 
vi  II  uere,  &  in  qual  parte  del  ma  ||  re  ftanno 
&  in  qual  pa  ||  rallelo  &  clima  ||  giaciono.  || 
Con  la  gionta  del  Monte  del  Oro  ||  noua- 
mente  ritrouato.  ||  con  il  breve  del  papa.  || 
Et  gratia  &  priuilegio  della  Illuftriffi  ||  ma 
Signoria  di  Venetia  co/ 1|  me  in  quelli  ap- 
pare.  ||  A  HMDXXXIIII.  jj 

Colophon  : 

ImprelTe  in  Venegia  per  Nicolo  d'Arif- 
totile,  detto  Zoppino,  nel  mefe  1|  di  Giugno, 
del.  M.D.XXXIIII.  II 

*^*  Folio,   title    one    leaf  +  nine  preliminary    leaves,  containing 
three  double  maps  4-  seventy-four  numbered  leaves. 

(Private  Librar.,  Providence  and  Washington  city.) 

On  page  lo  there  is  a  plan  of  the  city  of  Mexico 
before  the  conquest. 

Direct  references:  f  Panzer,  Annates  Typogr.,  Vol.  VIII,  page  541. 
I    Clement,  Bibliothejue  Curieuse,  Yo\.  v,  page  91. 
I    Haym,  Bihlioteca  Italiana,  Vol.  IV,  page  lOJ. 
Bibliotheca  Browniana,  page  18,  No.  61. 


,    *       '     Bibliotheca  Americana.  3" 

I  8  8 .    HUTTICH-GR  YNAEUS-HERR-Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  1534* 


f  Aaf  I  ten  tttt^i*  3^W^« 

S^  m  ^teller  atten  «ltt»e!t6efi^r^bertt  unficfanti  ll 
lO  "  Sttttsjl  oljcr  \}m  beti^ortttpJcfcm  uunb  glj^ianl-- 
ern  Im  meber-Hfiettgai^ett  mm  ^erfunkn.  ®omit  ben 
flttctt  tttib  gebrcttdjen  ber  %mmtxi  bcnllbolifer.  5(tt(^ 
m%  ®tttter  ober  aSttren  mou  be^  Inen  funbemunb  Innll 
ttttfere  ficnbt  broi^t  ^ob.  ^obe^  flnbt  men  oui^  ^le  ben 
nrfiirttna  unb  ll  att^erfumtnctt  ber  giirttcmbjicn  mm%= 
ftett  »oWer  bet  «tt- 1|  betouten  ^eJticJ§  bo  felnb  ble 
^ortwtt  1  gjlofeottlten  1 1|  Slettjfen  H  ^reuffen  i  ^uttgern  i 
©fdjtafett.  etc.  ||  ttudj  ottjeljgttttB  nub  innljalt  blft  ttmb- 11 
getoetttett  blatd.  11 

eebTttit  jfi  ©ttttjbtttg  bttt^  ©eorgett  SJlrlJ^er  ll  bon 
«ttbtci am  ♦??-J?e^ettbett  tog  beS  aRor^enS.    9tn.  mM. 

ixxiiii.  ll 


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two  hundred  numbered  leaves  (last  through  misuke  numbered 
242) ;  printer's  mark  on  verso  of  the  last.  Two  columns, 
very  small  black  letter  ;  no  map. 

(Private  Libr.,  Providence  and  Washington  city.) 

German  translation   by   Michel   Herr  of  Huttich's 
Novus  Orbis  (No.  170). 

Travels  of  Columbus,  Pages  28-37. 

"       «'  Vespuccius,    "     4i-45>  49~57' 

"  FirM  edition"  (Kloss'.) 


-  Catalogue,  page   31*.  No.  4389,  <!=-     «>"r  """^'"'^  "°'"'   ""^  """''  *"'' 
icribes   «'  Melancthon'»    copy,  with    nu-     ten. 


"^^ 


312 

I  C'24.,      Direct  reftrtn,.cs  i 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 

Catal.  Biblhth.  Bunav.,  Vul.  11,  page  44. 

Cata/.  Biblioth.  TAereiiana,  Vol.  Ill,  page  166. 

Bihliolheca  Greifvittiana,  page  498. 

Biblicilkeca  BrownianOy  page    18,  No.  62. 

Hiilorical  Nuggets,  No,  2018. 

Rich,  No.  9. 

Ternaux,  No.  45. 

Tromcl,  No.  7. 

Bkunet,  Vol.  IV,  col.  IJZ. 


189.     RADIAN  (JOACH)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

EPITOME  II TRIVM  TERRAE  PARTIUM  ASIAE, 
AFRiuAE  ET  KVROPAE  coMPENDiARiAM  Lo-  ||  coruiTi  dcfcriptioiiem  con- 
tinens  pr^cipii  autem  ||  quorum  in  Adtis  Lucas,  paflim  autem 
Euan-  II  gelifta;  &  Apoftoli  meniinere.  ||  cvm  addito  in  fronte 
LiBRi  ELENCHO  ||  regionum,  urbium,  amnium,  infularu,  quorum 
No  II  uo  teftamento  lit  mentio,  quo  expeditius  plus  Lector  quae 
uelit,  meminere  queat.  ||  per  ioachimvm  vadianvm  medicvm.  || 

TIGVRI,     APVD     CHRISTOPHORVM  ||   FR03CH,     MENSE     SEPTEMB. 
ANNO  11  M.D.XXXIIII.  11 


%*  Folio,  title  one  leaf,  +  eight  preliminary  pages,  +  index  in 
thirty  pages  +  two  hundred  and  seventy-three  numbered  pages  for 
text.     Mappamund,  with  the  word  AMERICA  inscribed. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

Joachim  Vadianus,  or  von  Watte,  was  born  of  an 
aristocratic  family  at  St.  Gall  in  Switzerland,  Nov.  29th, 
I484^  In  our  short  sketch  of  this  honest  and  learned 
man  {supra,  page  161),  we  forgot  to  state  that  after 
having  been  a  great  duelist  in  his  youth,  he  turned  his 
attention  towards  the  sciences,  and  soon  acquired  great 
reputation,  not  only  as  a  theologian,  a  geographer,  a 
mathematician  and  a  physician,  but  also  as  a  poet,  for 
he  received  the  laurel  wreath  which  the  Emperor  was 
wont  to  award  to  the  greatest  poetical  genius  in  his 
dominions'.  We  describe,  infra,  another  work  of  Va- 
dianus, which  contains  passages  bearing  on  the  subject 
before  us. 


•  NicERON,  Mimoiret,  Vol.  xxxvil,  piy.         '  Teisbisr,  Elogc>,  Vol.  I,  p.  42. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


3^ 


Panzer'  describes  what  would  seem  two  editions  of    1534' 

the  above,  both  published  in  1534,  one  in  8vo,  the  other 

in  folio  ;  yet  the  title  of  the  8vo  is  the  only  one  which 
corresponds  entirely  to  our  folio.  We  describe  {infra) 
an  8vo  edition,  but  it  is  dated  Antwerp,  1535,  instead 
of  Zurich,  1534  Draudius^  cites  another  8vo  edition, 
also  printed  at  Antwerp,  and  in  1548,  with  additions. 

See  cap.  insvlae  oceani  precipvae,  on  page  267. 


Direct  reftrtncei  t 


Maittaire,  Annatti  Typogr.,  Vol.  II,  Part  I,  page   384  (containj 
also  valuable  details  concerning  Froschover  and  his  publKations.) 
Indices  Lihr.  Prohib.  (Madrid,  fol.,  1 667),  page  557. 
Catal.  Bibliot.  Bunav.,  Vol.  11,  page  jl. 
Napione,  Del  Prima  Scopritore,  page  78. 
Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  v,  No.  5388. 


I  go.     PETER  MARTYR  &  OVIEDO-Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

LIBRO    PRIMOIIDELLA    HISTOHRIA  DE 
L'INIIDIE  OCl|CIDENl|TALIll4fe|| 

yerso  of  the  same  : 

SVMMARIO  DE  LA  GENERALE  ||HISTO- 
RIA  DE  L'INDIE  OCCI-l|DENTALI  CAVATO 
DA  LI-IIBRI  SCRITTI  DAL  SI-HGNOR  DON 
PIETRO  II  MARTYRE  DEL  CONSI  ||  GLIO 
DELLA  MAESTAIIDE  L'IMPERADORE,||  ET 
DA  MOL/fE  II  ALTRE  PAR-  1|  TICVLA-  ||  RI 
RELA-||TIONL||^ll 

Recto  of  the  first  leaf  of  the  second  part : 

LIBRO  SECONIIDO  DELLE  IN  ||  DIE  OCjl 
CIDEN  II  TALI  II  ^  II  MDXXXIIII.  |1  Con  gratia  & 
priuilegio.  ||''" 


'  AnnaUi    Typogr.,  Vol.  VIII,   p.   3«3. 

Nos.  62  and  63. 

*  Bibliotheca  Classica,  p.  786. 

*  Anglice :  First  book  of  tl  e  history  of 
the  West  Indies. 

Summarv  of  the  general  history  ot  the 
West  Indie's,  taken  fiom  tlie  work  written 
by   Don  Peter   Martyr,  of  the  Council  of 


His  Majesty  the  Emperor,  and  from  many 
other  private  accounts. 

Second  book.of  the  West  Indies,  1534, 
with  grace  and  privilege. 

Summary  of  the  General  and  Natural 
Historv  of  West  India,  composed  by  Gon- 
zalvo,  Ferdinand  de  Oviedo,  alias  de  Val- 
des,  a   native   of  the    country   o,"  Madrid, 


40 


314  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  ^  ^  ^.t  l^erso  of  the  same  : 

— =  SVMMARIO  DE  LA||NATVRALE  ET  GEN- 
ERAL  HISTO||ria  de  I'lndie  occidental!,  compofta 
da  Gonzalo  ferdi- 1|  nando  del  Ouiedo,  altrimenti  di 
valde,  natio  de  ||  la  terra  di  Madril  :  habitatore  & 
rettore  de  ||  la  citta  di  fanta  Maria  antica  del  Darien,  || 
in  terra  ferma  de  I'indie:  il  qual  fu  riue  ||  duto  &  cor- 
retto  per  ordine  de  la  Maefta  del  Imperadore,  pelo 
fuo  II  real  configlio,  de  le  dette  In  ||  die.  &  tradotto  di 
lingua  caftigliana  in  Italia- jjna.  Co  priuilegio  ||  de  la 
IIluftrilT,  II  Signoria  di  Vinegia,  ||  per  afli  XX.  || 

Redo  of  the  first  leaf  of  the  third  part : 

LIBRO  VLTIMO  D  EL  SVM  M  A  ||  RIO 
DELLEIJINDIE  OCCI  DEN  ||  TALI  ||  ^  || 
MDXXXIIII.il 

Colophon: 

C  In  Vinegia,  Del  mefe  d'Ottobre.||MDXXXIIII.||t 


*^*  4to,  title  one  leaf  +  seventy-nine  numbered  leaves  -j-  one  blank 
4-  one  title-leat'-f-  sixty-four  leaves  -f  one  leaf  for  tavola  -f- 
one  leaf  giving  a  description  of  the  two  maps  -|-  one  title-leaf 
■\-  fifteen  unnumbered  leaves.  Text  in  Roman  characters. 
Between  the  first  and  second  parts,  a  folded  map  of  "  Isola 
Spagnvola."  On  verso  of  fol.  48,  recto  of  49,  and  verso  of 
52  in  part  second,  large  woodcuts.  Finally  a  very  large  map 
bearing  the  following  inscription  : 


inhabitant  and  governor  of  the  old  city  of 
Santa-Maria  del  Darien,  on  the  mainland 
of  the  Indies;  revised  and  corrected  by 
order  of  His  Majesty  the  Emperor,  through 
his  Royal  council  of  the  said  Indies,  and 
translated  from  the  Spanish  into  Italian, 
with  the  privilege  of  the  Illustrious  Seig- 
niory of  Venice  for  twenty  years. 

Last  book  of  the  summary  of  West 
India,  1534. 

Venice,  October,  1534. 

f  Haym,  Bibtioteca  Iialiana,  Vol.  I,  p. 
176,  No.  10,  ascribes  the  date  (probably  a 
mistake  by  the  printer)  of  1543  to  this 
title,  to  which  he  adds  !   "  ^  questo  libro 


gli    eruditi  fanno   seguire  la  ttoria  del  P. 
Giuseppe  di  S.  Teresa  qui  sutto  riferiia." 

*  *^  Au  iiombre  des  trouvailles  importaiites  sur  Ici 
premieres  anitees  dc  U  dccouvcrte  des  lerres  amc* 
ricaineSf  il  faut  placer  sans  hesitation  celle  qui  a  cte 
faite  ii  y  a  peu  de  temps  a  la  Biblioihe^iue  Imperiale 
de  Paris  ct  que  j'ai  etc  le  premier  a  signaler.  Je 
veux  parler  ici  dc  la  precieuse  carte  du  Bresil  ct 
d'une  parlie  de  TAfrique,  construite  en  [Octobrc] 
I5J4,  par  un  I'ortugais  portant  le  nom  dc  vi^j'i'AKO 
ViBia\3.  Mr.  1*  Capitaine  de  frcgatc  Mouchez 
qui  a  etc  charge  par  la  gouvernemetil  trani,ais  dc 
continuer  en  les  perfectionnant  Ics  travaux  de 
TAmiral  Roussir),  a  etc  emerveiUe  comme  moi  dc 
Texactiludc  comparative  d*un  pateil  monument 
geographiquc.  J'en  ai  parle  du  reste  dans  ma  rc- 
ccnlc  publication  dcs  yayagtt  du  P.  Tva  (TEvrtux 
au  Maranham  in  I6|  3  [p.  44s].  EUe  nous  a  ili 
moiitrde  par  le  savant  Mr.  Cortambcrt." 

(F.  DINI9I. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


3^S 


"MDXXXIIII.     Del   mese  di  Dicembre.  |1  La  carta  uniucrsale     ] 
della  terra  ferma  &  Isole  dellc  Indie  occidetali.  cio  e  del  mon  ||  do  _ 
nuouo  facta  per  dichiaratione  delli  li- H  bri  delle  Indie   cauata  da  due 
carte  d-i'  na- 1|  uicare  fatte  in  Sibilia  da  li  piloti  della  H  Maiesta  Ce- 
sarea.  ||  Con  gratia  &  priuilegio  della  Illustrissi  ||  ma  Signoria  di  Vene- 

tia  p'  anni  XX.  .  ^  n  i-i.   \ 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York,  Providence  and  Harvard  CoU.  Libr.) 

Diria  reftrtnctn  f  Pan«»,  Annalti  Ty{,ogr.,\ol.  Till,  page  541,  No.  I77J- 
-    Rich,  No.  10. 
Terjaux,  No.  43. 

Stevens,  Historical  Nuggtts,  Vol.  It,  No.  1808. 
Libri  Catalogue  for  1859,  page  13,  No.  93. 
Bibliothtca  Brotuniana,  page  18,  No.  60. 

IQI.    ANONrMOU&— Beginning  of  the  first  leaf: 

LETERA  DE  LA  |1  nobil  cipta :  noua- 
mente  ritrouata  alle  In-||die  con  li  cof- 
tumi  &  modi  del  luo  Re  &||foi  populi : 
Li  modi  del  fuo  adorare  con  la  1|  bella 
vfanza  de  le  donne  loro :  &  de  le  dua  H 
perfone  ermafrodite  donate  da  quel  Re- 
al 11  Capitano  de  larmata.  1| 

In  fine : 

EL  V.  S.  V,  Al  Suo,  D,  L.  S. 

Data  in   Peru  adi,  XXV,  de  Nouemhre, 

Del,  MDXXXIIII, 

*  *  Octavo  for  shape,  four  unnumbered  leaves,  printed  in  italics. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

The  present  is  evidently  a  modern  reprint,  to  which 
the  Historical  Nuggets'-  prefixes  the  query  whether  it 
might  not  have  been  printed  at  Milan  in  1830;  but  of 
the  original  of  this  plaquette,  we  can  find  no  traces. 

»  See  Mapottca  Columbiana,  p.  a.  No.  6.         "  Vol.  il,  p.  467,  No,  1689. 


534- 


3i6 


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^534*  ^^  describe  {infra)  under  the  date  of  1535,  a  plaquette, 
iscssgas- similar  as  to  the  text,  but  which  is  only  a  fac-siniile 
made  by  the  elder  Harris  from  an  original  in  the  British 
Museum.  The  latter  is  dated  '■'■ 'Ahaiial.  Adi.  xxv.  di 
Settembre.  M.D.XXXF"  Under  the  date  of  1539,  v/e 
describe  nnother,  but  evidently  an  original,  bearing  the 
date  {sine  loco)  o{  ^^  xxx  di  Settembre.  M.D. XXXIX." 

As  to  the  substance  of  this  mysterious  Italian  pla- 
quette, we  can  only  cite  Ternaux'. 

"  Description  d'une  viile  que  I'auteur  nomme  Zhaval.  La  relation 
est  si  obscure  qu'on  ne  peut  devincr  dans  quelle  partie  de  I'Amerique 
I'auteur  la  place,  d'autant  plus  que  Ic  recit  parait  plein  d'exageration'." 

The  nearest  approach  to  such  a  name  we  could  find 
is  Zavalita,  a  settlement  of  the  province  of  Antioquia, 
in  the  Nuevo  Regno  de  Granada,  mentioned  in  Alcedo's 
Dictionary. 


192.     MAXIMILLIAN  OF  TR.    Csf    PIG/IFETTA—'*  l\     Viag- 

gio    fatto  dagli    Spagnuoli    atorno    al  mondo.     reni/e, 
1534  in  4to.  (non  i^^S/ans  lieu)." 

(Livres  Curieux''.) 

The  only  work  bearing  this  title  we  know  of  is  the 
translation  into  Itf.lian  of  Maximillian  of  Transylvania's 
Letter  to  the  Abp.  of  Saltzburg  (Nos.  123  and  124), 
and  of  Pigafetta's  account  (No.  134),  both  describing 
Magellan's  voyage,  and  supposed  to  have  been  pub- 
lished at  Venice  in  1536  {infra).  The  above  is  the 
only  notice  which  we  could  find  of  an  Italian  version 
mentioning  the  locality. 


•  Bibliotheque  yimericaine,  p.  9,  No.  4a.  several  large  editions,  and  we  know  that 

*  The  fact  that  the  plaquette  was  pub-  in  Italy,  in  the  sixteenth  century,  the 
lished  several  times  is  not  an  argument  in  demand  for  news  from  the  new  world, 
favor  of  the  authenticity  of  the  circum-  whether  real  or  imaginary,  remained  un- 
stances    related    therein.      llic    "  iVloon  abated  for  a  number  of  years. 

hoax,"  in  our  own  country,  went  through  '  Page  29,  No.  14.J. 


1 


Bibliotheca    Americana.  ^t? 

IQ'3,    ANONYMOUS— Rerto  of  the  first  leaf: 

COPIA  DELLE  LETTERE  DEL 
PREFETTO  DEL  1|  la  India  la  nuoua 
Spagna  detta,  alia  Cefarea  Maefta  re- 
fcritte.  II 

*  *  Sm.   4to,   for  size,  sine  anno  aut  lo:o,  two  leaves ;    text   in 
Roman  characters. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

Francisco  Pizarro,  the  most  cruel  of  those  rapacious 
adventurers  who  have  rendered  the  name  of  Spain  for- 
ever odious  throughout  the  southern  part  of  this  con- 
tinent, which  they  ravaged,  decimated  and  deluged  with 
blood,  was  born  near  Truxillo,  in  Spain,  toward  the 
years  1475  {Gar  ci  lasso  de  la  Vega'),  1478  {H  err  era"),  or 
147 1  {Pizarro^  y  Orellam,  Prescoti*),  and  was  killed  at 
Cuzco  in  Peru,  June  a6th,  1541.  He  was  an  illegiti- 
mate child,  who  had  been  abandoned,  and  would  have 
perished,  had  he  not  been  nursed  by  a  sow'.  While  yet 
a  lad  he  looked  after  his  father's  swine,  or  served  with 


^534- 


'  Historia  General  del  Peru,  trata  de  su 
deicubrimiento  y  como  lo  ganaron  los  E.pafl- 
oles,  laiguerras  civiles  ijuc  hwvo  entre  Pizar- 
roty  Almagros  sobre  la  partija  de  la  tierra. 
casiigo  y  levantamiemo  de  tyranos,  y  otros 
succesos  farikularei  que  en  la  historia  se  con- 
lienen,  eurito  por  el  Tnca  Garcilaso  de  la 
yega;  Cordova,  fol.,  1617;  8  +  300  -f  611. 

This  is  only  the  second  part.    The  first  is ; 

Primera  parte  de  los  Commentarios  Reales, 
qve  tratan  del  origen  de  los  Tncas,  Reyes 
qve  f'veron  del  Perv,  de  s-v  Idolatria,  Leyes 
y  gouierno  en  pais  y  en  guerra ;  de  sus  vidas 
y  conquistas,  y  de  tcdo  lo  que  fue  aquel  Im- 
perioy  su  Republica,  antes  que  los  EspagHoles 
passaran  a  el i  Lisbon,  fol.,  1 609  (coloph. 
dated  1608);  11+264  11.  (Priv.  Libr., 
N.  Y.  and  Provid.) 

'  Hist.    General,    Decad.     vi,    lib.    10, 
cap.  6, 

'  yarnnes   Illustres  del  Nuevo    Mundof 


Madrid,  fol,,   1639.     (The  author  was   a 
grandson  of  Francisco  Pizarro'.!  daughter.) 

♦  history  of  tie  Conquest  of  Peru,  Vol.  1, 
cap.  1 1. 

"  Primera  y  Secunda  parte  de  la  Historia 
general  de  las  Indias,  con  todo  el  descubri- 
mientoy  cosas  notables  que  han  acarcido  dende 
que  se  ganaron  hasta  el  atlo  de  1 55 1,  con  la 
conquista  dl  Mexico y  de  la  Nueva  Espaftai 
Saragossa,  fol.,  by  A.  MiUan,  1553  (nearly 
all  notices  of  this  edition  state  "1552- 
1553"),  lii  +  140  11.,  map  (B.hliriih. 
Broiutiiana,  second  part.  No.  97)  ;  id., 
Medina  del  Campo,  fol.,  1553,  122  +  1  39 
11.;  (1^.,  Saragossa,  tol.,  1554.  (The  first 
part  by  P.  Bernuz,  the  second,  by  Millan. 
— Private  Libr.,  N.  V.)  As  to  the  8vo 
editions  published  at  Antwerp  by  Steelsio, 
Nucio  and  Belloro,  in  1554,  we  confide 
their  description  to  the  patient  investiga- 
tions of  our  continuators. 


i'WfHJI!?^'#''Wi!!WW'!S)i».^»H!  /WW  (fw 


j(.(l«|u|gwilHppti 


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534.  him  in  the  Italian  wars.  The  story  is,  that  having  lost 
5a_____.  one  of  the  herd,  he  dared  not  return  home,  and  joined 
at  Seville  some  expedition  to  the  New  World.  Pizarro 
y  Orellana  states  that  he  served  under  Columbus.  We 
first  hear  of  him  in  connection  with  Ojeda's  expedition 
in  1 5 10,  His  deeds  under  Pedro  Arias  and  with  Diego 
de  Almagro  {supra,  page  245)  have  been  related  by 
Xeres*^  and  Augustin  de  Zarate^.  As  to  the  bloody 
expedition  which  commenced  in  January,  1531,  when  the 
piratical  flotilla  of  Francisco  Pizarro  sallied  forth  from 
the  Bay  of  Panama  to  carry  fire  and  sword  on  both  slopes 
of  the  Andes,  the  chief  historians  to  consult  are,  besides 
those  already   mentioned,   Pedro   de  Cie9a    de    Leon**, 


'•ll'553-JI 
en  cafa  df 


*  Verdadera  re/acion  df  la  conquiita  del 
Peru;  Seville;  fol.,  1534  {i>:fra)  i  id., 
Salamanca,  fol.  1547. 

'  Hisloria  del  descubrimiento  y  conquista 
del  Peru,  con  las  coias  naturahs  que  sefiaUid- 
mente  alii  se  Italian,  y  hs  successes  que  ha 
a-vido;  Antwerp,  12010,1555,8  +  27311.; 
id ,  Seville,  tbl.,  1577,  4+117  +  3  11. 
(Priv.  Libr.,  Provid.) 

"  Parle  Primera  jl  Dela  chronica  del  Peru. 
Slue  tracta  la  demarea-  \\  cion  de  Jus  prouin- 
cias :  la  defcription  dellas.  Las  \\J'undaciones 
de  las  nueuas  ciudades.  Los  ritos  y  \\  cnjlum- 
bres  de  los  Indios.  T oiras  cofas  ejlraiias\\ 
dignas  defer  fabidas.  Fee  ha  por  Pedro  d' 
Cie^a  1|  de  Leon  -vezino  de  Seuilla.  " 
Colophon  :  Impreff'a  en  Seuilla 
Marti;  n  de  Moniejdoca.  Acahofe  a  quinze 
de  I'  Mar^o  de  mill  y  quinientos  y\\  cinquenia 
y  ires  aHos, 

%*Fol.,  10+  134  11. 

— La  Chronica  \\  del  Perv,  Nveva-  Ij 
menle  escriia,  por  |j  Pedro  de  Cie^a  de 
Leon,\\  vezino  de  Se  }l  uilla.  ||  En  Anvers  \\ 
tn  ca''.:  de  Manin  Nucio,  \\  M.D.LIIII.  || 

*i*  8vo,  8  +  204  11. 

— Parte  Primera  ||  De  la  chro  j|  nica  del 
Peru  que  tra  ||  ta  de  la  demarcacion  de  sus 
prouincias,  la  descripcion  \\  dellas,  las  fun- 
daciones  de  las  nueuas  ciudades,  los\\  ritos  y 
costumbres  de  hs  Indios,  y  otras  co  ||  sas 
isirahas,  dignas  de  ser  sabidas  ||  Heiha  por 
Pedro  de  Cieca  ||  de  Leon,  -vezino  ||  de  Se- 
uilla. II  ....  £n  An'vers  \\  Por  Juan  Bel- 
loro  a  la  enseHa  del  ||  Salmon  .  1 554■ 


\*  8vo,  8  +  285  +  9.     Map. 

— Primera  Parte  de  la  Chronica  del  Peru 
....  En  Anvers  en  casa  de  yuan  Steelsio, 
1554.  (Title  arranged  in  all  respects,  and 
collation  the  same,  as  Belloro's  edit.) 

The  tirst  three,  in  a  private  Libr.  Prov- 
idence; all  four  in  a  private  Libr.  New 
York. 

We  vouch  for  no  other  original  Spanish 
editions. 

This  valuable  historian  had  the  inten- 
tion, when  he  published  the  first  part  of 
his  History,  to  write  two  additional  parts, 
the  contents  of  several  books  of  which  he 
give':  in  the  original  edition.  Leon  Pinelo 
does  not  seem  to  have  been  aware  of  the 
existence  of  the  remaining  parts,  since  he 
only  says  :  "  Si  acabira  otras  tres  partes, 
que  prometio,  fueran  de  mucha  estima- 
cion"  (Epitome,  p.  84).  Barcia  adds  (Col. 
649)  "  porque  la  primera  tiene,  i  deber 
tener  tanta,  como  pondera  el  P.  Melendez: 
Tesoros  l^erdaderos  de  las  Indias,  lib.  3, 
cap.  8,  donde  dice,  que  aun  esta  no  se  halla 
en  el  Peru;"  while  Antonio  (Bibl.  H. 
Nova,  Vol.  II,  p.  184)  only  expresses  his 
regrets.  Robertson  considered  these  MS. 
parts  as  loat,  while  Prescott  ^Hist.  of  the 
Conq.  of  Peru,  Vol.  II,  p.  328)  thought 
they  had  never  been  written.  Rich  {Bibl 
America  foetus,  p.  8,  No.  24)  was  the  first 
to  state  that  "The  11.  and  ni.  parts  in 
MSS.  were  seen  in  Madrid  some  years  ago, 
but  it  is  not  known  what  became  of  them." 
When  this  most  honest  and  trustworthy 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  319 

Levinius  ApoUonius',  Diego  Fernandez'",  Benzoni", 
Pedro  Pizarro",  Miguel  Cavello  Balboa",  Fernando 
Montesinos^  J.  de  Arriaga",  Jose  de  Acosta'^  Juan 
de  Velasco'^  the  poem  of  Ercilla'^  the  two  valuable 
accounts  in  Ramusio"  so  often  quoted,  the  books  xlvi 
and  xLVii  in  Oviedo",  and  the  third  and  fourth  Decades 


1534- 


bibliopole  offered  for  sale  the  collection  of 
MSS.,  comprising  the  copies  and  originals 
collected  by  Antonio  de  Uguina  and  Lord 
Kingsborough,  the  third  part  of  Ciena's 
worii  was  found  among  them,  and  pur- 
chased by  a  bibliophile  in  this  city,  who 
has  it  still  in  his  possession.  This  third 
part  bears  tlie  following  title  : 

Tercero  libra  de  las  Guerras  CiviUi  del 
Peru  el  qual  se  llama  la  guerra  de  li^uilo. 
Hecho  for  Pedro  de  Cieza  de  Leon  ;    Coro- 
nista  de  las  Indias. 
Folio,  424  leaves. 

As  to  the  second  part,  it  is  yet  missing. 
What  is  called  in  the  Italian  version 
(Venice,  8vo,  l  564-1  566)  La  Seconda  parte 
and  la  Ter%a  parte,  is  only  a  translation 
from  GoMARA. 

»  de  Peruuia,  Regionis,  inter  Norn  orbis 
prouincias  ceteberrima,  inuentione  :  &  rebus 
in  eadem  gestis,  I  'bri  V.  Ad  lacobvm  Cla- 
ro'vtivm  Maldeghemmae  ac  Pittemiae  Domi- 
num.  Ereuis,  exacta-jue  Noui  Orbis,  & 
Peruuia  regionis  chorographia  i  Antwerp, 
8vo,  1566  (generally  considered  the  first 
edition,  but  Rich  (No.  44)  and  Ternaux 
(No,  97),  mention  a  izmo  edition  of 
1565).  The  edition  of  1567  is  only  the 
present  with  a  new  title-page. 

'"  Primcray  Segunda  parte,  de  la  hiitoria 
del  Peru.  Contiene  la  primera,  to  succedido 
en  la  Nueva  Espana  y  en  el  Peru,  sobre  la 
execucion  de  las  nuever  leyes ;  y  el  allana- 
miento,  y  castigo,  que  hi-zo  el  Presidente 
Gasca,  de  Goncalo  Pi^arra  y  sus  se<juaces. 
La  Stgunda  contiene  la  tyranniay  al^amienta 
de  los  contreros  y  dan  Sebastian  d:  Castillo, 
&c.;  Seville,  fol.,  I  57 1. 

"  La  liistoria  del  Mondo  Nvovo.  La 
qval  tratta  dell'  hole  &  M-iri  nMuameme 
ritrouali,  &  delle  nuoua  Citia  da  lui  propria 
vedule,  pet  acjua  ($f  per  terra  in  quattordeci 
anni;  Venice,  8vo,  1565;  id.,  8vo,  1571. 
"  Relacion  del  descubrimienlo  y  conjuista 
di  los  Reynos  del  Peru  y  del  Go-vierno  y 
horden  que  los  Naturales   tenian  y  tessoros 


que  en  ellos  se  hallaron  y  de  las  demas  cosas 
que  en  el  an  subcedido  hasta  el  dia  de  sufecha. 
Heehepor  Pedro  Pifarro  conjuislador y  pob- 
laiir  destos  dichos  Reynos  y  -vecino  de  la 
ciudad  de  Areguipa,  Aao  1 571.  MS. 
Private  Libr.,  Boston.  We  think  that  it 
has  been  printed  in  the  Navarrete-Salva- 
Sainz  Coleccion  de  documentos. 

"  Hiitoire  du  Perou,  in  Ternaux'  Re- 
cueil  i  Paris,  1840. 

'*  Mi-moires  sur  Pancien  Pcrou,  in  Ter- 
naux, loc.  cit.  Our  readers  are  aware  that 
there  are  two  works  by  this  author,  -viz.  ; 
Memorias  Antiguas  Historiales  del  Peru, 
and  the  Anales.  Ternaux  has  given  only 
the  former.  There  is  a  transcript  of  both, 
in  the  original  Spanish,  in  a  private  library, 
Boston. 

"  Extirpacion  de  la  idolatria  de  los  Jndios 
del  Peru  y  medios  para  la  contjersion  de  ellos ; 
Lima,  4to.  1621. 

"  Hisloria  natural  y  moral  de  las  Indias  { 
Seville,  4to,  1590.  (See  supra,  p.  240, 
note  10. 

"  Histoire  du  Royaume  de  S^iito,  in  Ter- 
NAUx's  Recueil.  A  compiratively  modern 
work,  but  written  on  the  authority  of  valu- 
able manuscript  sources,  such  as  Alfonso 
Palomino.  Fr.  Marco  de  Nizza,  Aloszo 
DE  Montenegro,  Bravo  de  Saravia,  &c. 

'"  La  Araucana;  Madrid,  8vo,  1569 
(first  part);  id.,  1578  (second  part);  id., 
1590  (third  part)  ;  Salamanca,  8vo,  1597 
(fourth  and  fifth  parts). 

"  Di  vn  capitano  Spagnuolo  Relatione 
del  discoprimiento  &  conjuista  del  Peru, 
fatta  da  Francisco  Pizaarro  Gf  da  Her- 
nando Pi-zzarro  sufralello. 

— Di  vn  Secretairo  di  Francisco  Piz- 
■zarro.  Relatione  deb  cor.quista  fatta  della 
prouincia  del  Peru,  detta  dipdi  la  Nuoua 
Castiglia,  con  la  descrittione  della  gran  Citla 
del  Cuscho.  In  the  Raccolta,  Vol.  HI, 
fol.  371,  sq. 

'»  Historia  G'neral,  only  in  Vol.  IV  of 
the  Madrid  edition,  fol.,  1855. 


1534- 


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of  Herrera.  The  manuscript  sources",  however,  still 
present  a  mass  of  valuable  materials,  which  no  student 
of  the  history  of  Peru  should  overlook. 

Independently  of  the  above-mentioned  printed  works, 
there  are  several  small  volumes,  which  have  greatly  per- 
plexed bibliographers.  The  first  is  a  letter  from  some 
anonymous  official,  directed  to  Charles  V,  and  giving 
the  first  account  of  the  battle  in  which  Atahualpa  was 
made  prisoner  by  Pizarro.     This  was  written  originally 


"'  The  following  are  preserved  in  a 
private  library,  in  New  York  : 

— M.  C.  Balboa,  Miscellanea  Antar- 
tica,  400  11. 

— MoNTESiNos,  Anales  del  Peru,  and 
Memorias.  267  11. 

— M.  DE  Paz,  Dialogo  sobre  los  sucesos 
varios  acaccidos  en  este  Reyno  del  Peru. 

— Nicholas  de  Alberino,  VerJadera 
y  copiosa  relacion  de  todo  lo  nucvamcnte 
sucedido  en  los  reynos  y  provincias  del  Peru 
dende  la  ida  a  ellos  del  Virrey  Blasco  Nunez 
Vela  hasta  el  desbarato  y  muerte  dp  Gon- 
zalo  Pizarro.  (Seville.  1549).  Jio  H. 
"Copied  from  a  .MS.  in  the  Imperial  Libr., 
Paris.  Appears  to  have  been  printed,  but 
no  copy  is  known." — Rich's  annotation. 

— De  la  Gasca,  Cartas  y  papeles  sobre 
los  asuntos  del  Peru.      114  11. 

— Valverde  (the  bloody  Bishop;.  Re- 
lacion del  Peru,  19  11.;  (</.,  Carta  al  Emp. 
Carlos  V.  sobre  las  revueltas  del  Peru. 
April  2,  1539.     43  11. 

— Replica  de  Diego  Fernandez  a  las 
objcctiones  puestas  a  su  Historia  por  el  lie. 
Santillan,  40  11. 

—  About  700  leaves  of"  Piifela  f^arioi, 
extending  from  1524  to  1556. 

In  a  private  library,  Boston  : 

— Relacion  de  los  primeros  descubrimi- 
entos  de  Francisco  Pizarro  y  Diego  de  Al- 
magro,  sacada  de  la  Bib.  Imp.  de  Viena. 
La  forma  que  en  estos  Reynos  del  Piru  de 
Fray  Francisco  dc  Morales  al  Rey.  Carta 
de  Gabritl  de  Rojas  a  Don  Antonio  de 
Mendoza  (Respuestas  al  instruccion  del 
Rey),  12  de  diciembre,  1561.  Relacion 
Bumaria  de  la  entrada  de  los  Espaftolos  en 
el  Peru  hasta  que  Uego  el  Licenciado  Baca 
de  Castro  :  Del  P.  Neharro.  Conquista  i 
Poblacion  del  Piru.     Anon.     Official  ac- 


count, by  Pedro  Sanchez,  of  the  division  of 
gold  and  silver  at  Caxamalca,  June,  1533. 
Extract  from  a  VIS.  of  Cara-vantes,  relat- 
ing to  burial  of  Pizarro,  &c.  Another 
extract,  containing  an  account  of  Pedro 
de  la  Gasca.  Carta  de  F.  Pizarro  a  Juan 
de  Samano,  8  de  junio,  1533.  Carta  de 
Bena/cazar,  como  poblo  y  se  concerto  con 
Alvarado.  Carta  de  Pedro  de  Al-uarado  al 
Emperador,  15  de  enero,  1535.  Breve 
relacion  del  viage  de  Alvarado.  Capitula- 
cion  entrj  Pizarro  y  Almago  en  el  Cuzco, 
12  de  junio  de  1535.  Informacion  secreta 
en  los  Reyes  20  agosto  de  35  por  el  obispo 
Berlanga  para  saber  como  ha  sido  tratada 
la  hacienda  real.  Carta  de  Francisco  Pi- 
•zarro  a  Juan  Vazquez  de  Molina,  29  dc 
junio,  1535.  Carta  de  Francisco  Pizarro 
al  Emperaior,  I  de  enero,  •535.  Carta 
Je  jilinagro  al  Emperador,  i  de  enero, 
1535.  Razon  de  las  partidas  de  oro,  plata 
i  piedras  que  se  fundieron,  marcaron  i  quin- 
taron  en  la  puatrera  fundicion  del  Cuzco 
desde  20  de  mayo  de  35  hasta  31  d  julio 
de  id.  Carta  de  Diego  de  Almagro  .'1  Em- 
perador, 15  de  octubre,  1534.  Twelve 
doubts  or  queries  (parece  papel  de  Fr.  Bar- 
tolome  de  las  Casas.  Acto  de  la  fundacion 
del  Cuzco  heclia  por  Francisco  Pizarro. 
Carta  de  la  Justicia  y  Rcgimiento  de  la 
ciuJad  de  Xauja,  20  de  julio  de  1534. 
Relacion  de  Francisco  Pizarro  y  otros, 
desde  Xauxa,  25  de  mayo  de  IJ34.  Carta 
de  Diego  de  Almagro  al  Emperador,  8  de 
mayo,  1554  Carta  de  Francisco  Pizarro 
a  D.  Pedro  de  Alvarado,  29  de  julio,  1536. 
Extractos  sacadis  por  MuRoz.  Carta  de 
Suarez  de  Carvajal  al  Emperador,  3  de 
noviembre,  1539.  Carta  del  Licenciado 
de  la  Gama  al  Emperador,  10  de  marzo, 
1539.     Carta  de  Francisco  Pizarro  tl  Em- 


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in  Spanish,  and  in  all  probability  printed ;  but  it  has, 
thus  far,  eluded  the  vigilant  eyes  of  bibliographers.  It 
is  known  through  what  seems  to  us  abridged  versions 
in  three  foreign  languages.  One  in  the  Italian — it  is 
the  present  No.  193.  We  place  it  first,  because  the 
German  version  {infra.  No.  195),  which  is  dated  Feb- 
ruary, 1534,  states  that  it  was  made  "  aus  Hispanien 
und  Italien."  After  the  Italian  we  have  the  G  rman 
translation,  or  rather  abridged  paraphrase,  just  men- 
tioned. We  then  describe  {infra.  No.  196)  a  French 
version,  also  dated  1534,  but  which  numbers  seven 
leaves.  Do  these  seven  leaves  imply  some  extra  mat- 
ter, or  a  different  account  altogether  ? 


«534. 


/direct  referemes;  i  Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Hart   I,  No.  1961. 
\  Bibliotheca  Grenvilliana,  page  537. 


pr-adur,  28  de  febrero,  1539.  Cartas  de 
Felipe  Gulierresn  al  Emperador,  10  de  feb., 
'539'  y  3°  ^^  diciembre,  1540.  Cartas 
de  Manuel  de  Espinar  al  Emperador,  6  de 
enero,  y  30  de  mayo,  1539.  Carta  de 
Gonzalo  Fernandez  de  O-viedo  al  Empera- 
dor, 25  de  octubre,  1537.  Carta  de  Fran- 
cisco Hizarro  al  Obispo  de  la  Tierra  firme, 
28  dc  agosto,  1537-  Relacion  de  Manuel 
de  Espinar.  Declaracion  con  juramento 
de  San  Juan  de  Uscategui,  Valladolid,  3 
de  agosto  de  1543.  Carta  de  la  Justicia  y 
Regimiento  de  la  Ciudad  los  Reyes  al  Au- 
diencia  de  Panama,  14  de  juliode  1541 
Carta  de  D.  Diego  de  Almagro  a  la  Real 
.^udiencia  de  Panama,  14  de  julio,  1541 
Carta  del  Maestre  Martin  de  Arauco,  1 5 
de  julio,  1 541.  Carta  de  Almagro  al  Au- 
•liencia.  8  de  nov.  1541.  Carta  de  Ir. 
yicente  de  Fatverde,  obispo  del  Cuzco,  a  la 
Audiencia  de  Panama,  1 1  de  nov.  1 541. 
Relacion  de  f^aldiz'ia  a  S.  M.  15  de  oct. 
1550.  Carta  del  obispo,  Fr.  Vicente  Val- 
■vrrde,  al  Emperador,  20  de  marzo,  1539. 
Relacion  (escrita  por  Pedro  Sarmiento)  del 
viage  que  hizo  el  magnilico  senor  capitan 
J'irgc  Robledo  i  de  las  dos  cibdades  quel 
dicho  poblo  e  fundo  en  la  provincias  de 
Ancermay  Quinvaya,&c.  Relacion  (escrita 
por  jfuan  Baulista  Sardela)  de  lo  que  sus- 
cedio  al  mag.  S.  capitan  Jorge  Robledo  en 
el  dcscobrimiento  que  hizo  de  las  provincias 


de  Antiochia  e  cibdad  que  en  ellas  fundo. 
Descripcion  de  los  pueblos  que  hay  al  rede- 
dor  de  la  cibdad  de  Santana  de  Indios. 
Carta  de  Pedro  de  yuldivia  al  Emperador, 
4  de  set.  I  545.  Dicho  del  capitan  Fran- 
cisco de  Caruajal  sobre  la  pregunta  38  de  la 
informacion  hecha  en  el  Cuzco  en  1543 
a  favor  de  Vaca  de  Castro.  Carta  de  Fran- 
cisco de  Barrionuevo  y  otros  al  Emperador, 
25  de  junio,  1542.  Carta  de  Belalcazar 
al  Emperador,  20  de  set.  1542.  Carta  de 
Hernando  de  Silva  y  otros  al  Emperador, 
24  de  set.  1 542.  Carta  de  Vinlura  Beltran 
al  Emperador  8  de  oct,  1542.  Extractos 
sacados  por  Mui^oz.  Relacion  de  las  cosas 
que  S.  M.  deve  proveer  para  los  reynos  del 
Peru,  embiada  desde  los  Reyes  a  la  corte 
por  el  Licenciado  Martel  Santoyo,  1542. 
Capitulacion  con  Orellana.  Extractos  sa- 
cados por  Mufioz  de  un  papel  de  Augustin 
de  Zarate.  Relacion  de  lo  que  ha  sucedido 
despues  de  la  prision  del  Vitrei  Blasco 
Nuficz  Vela  en  aquellos  reinos  hasta  que 
nos  partimos  del  puerto  del  Nombre  de 
Dios,  que  tue  a  27  de  marzo  deste  ano  de 
1545.  dm  ie  Belalcazar  al  Emperador, 
20  de  diciembre,  1 544.  Relacion  de  lo  que 
en  sustancia  escrivio  el  Licenciado  Casca 
cerca  de  lo  sucedido  en  el  Perii  en  el  des- 
barata  de  Gonzalo  Pizarro  i  de  los  que  le 
seguian.  Carta  de  Gonzalo  Pizarro  a  Pedro 
de   Valdivia,  30  de  oct.  1  546.  Montesinos, 


41 


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I  C34t     I  94*    HONTER  {J.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

^^  DIONYSII  II  APHRiDE  TOTivs  OR/  |1  bis 
fitu,  Antonio  Becharia  Veronenfi  inter-  || 
prete,  confumatillimum  opus.  ||  ioannis 
PR^TEREA  II  Honteri  Coronenfis  de  Cof- 
mographiae  ||  rudimentis  libri^duo.  ||  Coelo- 
rum  partes,  flellas  cum  flatibus  amnes,  || 
RegnacJ  cum  populis,  parue  libelle  tenes.|| 

EXCVDEBAT    HENRICVS  |1  PETRVS    BASILEAE.  |1 
Colophon  : 
BASILEAE  EX  AEDIBVS  ||  HENRICI    PETRI.   MEN|| 
SE    AVGVSTO,  II  ANNO  |1  M.D.XXXIIII.|| 


*,^*  4to,  title  one  leaf  +  three  unnumbered  leaves  +  ninety-nine 
numbered  pages,  +  two  blank  leaves,  with  the  printer's  device 
on  verso  of  the  last. 

(British  Museum.) 

There  is  nothing  on  America  in  the  Dionysius,  not 
even  the  slight  allusion  contained  in  the  address  in 
the  edition  of  151 8  (No.  93);  but  in  Honter's  work, 
which  commences  on  page  65  with  a  separate  title, 
the  reader  may  consult  page  91,   the  chapter:   nomin 

INSVLARVM  OCEANI   ET  MARIS.       /«  OCC'tduO  DoTCadeS,  HcS- 


Anales  del  Peru,  and  Memorias  antiguas 
historiales  del  Heru.  Relacion  de  la  suce- 
sion  y  govierno  de  los  Ingas  Sefiores  natu- 
rales  que  fueron  de  las  provincias  del  Peru 
y  otras  cosas  tocantes  a  aquel  reyno  por  el 
illmo.  Seflor  Don  Juan  Sarmitnto,  Pre- 
sidente  del  Consejo  Real  de  Indias.  In- 
struccion  del  Inga  D.  Diego  de  Castro  Tilu- 
cussi  Jupangui  para  el  Licenciado  Lope 
Garcia  de  Castro.  Suma  y  narracion  de 
los  Ingas  que  los  Indius  llamaron  Capac 
cuna,  &c.,  traducido  por  Juan  de  Betanzos. 
Relacion  brebe  de  la  Conquista  de  la  Nueva 
Espafla,  por  Fr.  Franciuo  de  Aguitar.    Re- 


lacion del  suceso  de  la  venida  del  tirano 
Chino  sobre  este  campo  y  de  las  demas 
cosas  sucedidas  a  cerca  de  ello.  Una  rela- 
cion de  lo  sucedido  en  Indias  con  Limahon 
Corsario  Chino.  Compendio  historial  del 
estado  de  los  Indios  del  Peru,  con  mucha 
doctrina  y  cosas  notables  de  ritos,  costum- 
bres  e  inclinaciones  que  tienen,  nuevamente 
compuesto  por  Lope  de  yllienza.  Dos  Re- 
laciones  dirigidas  al  Virrey  del  Peru,  Don 
Andres  Hurtado  de  Mendoza,  1 561  y 
1 57 1 .  Relacion  del  descubrimiento  y  con- 
quista del  Peru,  escrita  por  uno  de  los  Con- 
quittadores. 


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peridesy  Fortunata,  America,  P arias y  Isabeha,  Spagnolla  ^    1 534' 
Gades.  .  =5= 

John  Honter  was  a  Cronstadf  theologian,  who  intro- 
duced Reformation  into  Poland*.  He  died  in  1549. 
We  are  unable  to  state  whether  the  above  elementary 
cosmography  differs  from  the  Rudimentorum  Cosmograph- 
icorum,  which  we  notice,  infra,  under  the  date  of  1548. 

Direct  rcfertnctt!  J  Bibliotheca  Thottiana,  Vol.  iv,  page  105. 

\  Pahmb,  Annatti  Tyftgr.,  Vol.  ix,  page  406,  No.  933. 


I Q  C.    AKONYMOUS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

m  gi^ittnlett  ttiibliaitollett.ll9Jlettfe  ScI1rttarlo.ll1534.ll 

*  ♦  Sm.  4to,  sine  loco;  title  one  leaf  +  three  unnumbered  leaves. 
*  (Private  Library,  New  York.) 

This  account  is  essentially  the  same  as  the  Copia  delle 
Lettere  (No.  193),  but  more  succinct. 

"  Gazette  d'une  excessive  rarete  et  qui  parait  avoir  ete  imprimee 
a  Nuremberg.  Elle  contient  la  premiere  nouvelle  de  la  decouverte  du 
Pirou  et  est  restee  inconnue  a  tous  les  bibliographes  que  nous  avons 
pu  co;suker.  On  y  annonce  que  le  gouverneur  de  ^''f^'^^P^^J'^/j 
dans  I'Inde  a  ecrit  a  sa  majeste  (1  empereur  Charles  V.)  qu  .1  e  t 
arrive  un  navire  du  Perou  avec  une  lettre  du  Regent  Francisco  P.s- 
carlo  (Pizarro)  annon9ant  qu'il  a  debarque  et  quM  s'est  ^'^P^;^  ^u 
pays.  Qu'  avec  200  Espagnols  (infantene  et  cavalene)  .1  s  eca.t  em- 
barque,  et  qu'il  etait  arrive  chez  un  grand  seigneur  appele  Lass.ko. 
qu'il  a^ait  refuse  la  paix  et  I'avait  attaque.  que  les  Espagnols  avaien 
6te  victorieux  et  qu'ils  s'etaient  empares  de  jooo  casullans  (p  eces 

d'or)  et  de  20.000  marcs  d'argent qu'ils  ont  tire  deux  millions 

d'or  du  dit  Cassiko,  etc.,  etc." 

(LiBRI.) 


M.,k,r\\L   lit   D  201  W<,«/Vor«mA«flf<.fiMj;  Venice,  4to,i  617  5 

^  t«     i«.  C.M.r,.  U.ic.,  Vol.  which,  as  we  have  since  ascertained    con- 

„,  p-'T      on^he  authority   of  Czv.T-  tains,   also,   details   concernmg   D<   Stob- 

TINMR.    St'"""    """e"^-   ^''-  »    ^''P"^'  "'"*  ^"'^"''  '  "        ^^'' 


324  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

\  C'XA.,     106.     ANONYMOUS— (Vithin  a  border  : 

? 

•53+- 

Then  woodcut'  representing  ch     abs   supporting  a    shield  ;   and 
below : 

©n  leg  benti  a  ILpn  rijes  jFracogs lljufte  tieuSt 
j^oftre  trame  II  tre  OTonfort.  II 

^^f /«  fl/  the  first  leaf: 

ScnfuBuent  les  II  letres  tre  J^rancogs  iPi^arro  || 
gouuerneurtiu  ridje  pags  ct^rouincc  nommee  le 
^cru  fai-llfant  mention  ties  metueilleu-  ||fc»  c^ofes 
tant  beue^  par  cess  II  propreis  geuli  que  par  letres 
a  II  lug  Piiuouees  par  ceulx  q  au  mefme  pags 
tabitetllaux  quellesi  font  eontenues  plufieurs  cijofes 
nou-  II  uellesi  tant  tre  ricljeffes  en  cette  prouince 
troutiees  ||  r  tiicellug  pags  emenees  que  tie  plufieurss 
aultresi  II  marrijantiifes  et  ridjeffes :  x  tt  Ijepuig  le 
tempsJ  ql  11  monta  fur  mer  iufqueis  a  prefent.  II 

*^*   i2mo,  seven  unnumbered  leaves. 

(British  Museum.) 

Direct  reftrencet  ;  J  Bihliothtca  GrenvUtiana,  page  537. 

\  Catalogue  de  Livres  Curieux,  No.  138. 


'  Similar  to  the  mark  in  Marquet  Typogr.,  No.  »io,  and  Brunit,  Vol.  iv,  col.  104*. 


Bihliotheca  Americana.  3^5 

107.     FR/iNCK  (SEBASTIAN)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  *  534* 

^  I  I  tmb  dilbeni^  bed  gani^en  ||  erbtlioDend  bon 
WW^  @e(iQ|tiano  groncoliaSorblfl  in  uler  liui^cri 
ncmUi^  in  9i|l- 1|  am 'M<j|)rica  i  ^nro^am  i  tinb  9lmcrlcai 
gjtcit  bnb  ttbttili .  ^ni^  otter  boriii  &c-  II  griffner  i  fianbcr  i 
nation  i  f  ffluiui^g  bnb  Sietn  i  getegcnlicit  i  groffc  i  loeite  i 
ge  II  mat^ftie^genfdiolftitinb  ber  borinn  gctegencr  bolifcr 
tinb  cittttioncr  i  nam  jl  men  i  gejtalt  i  lelicn  \  wef en  i  religion 
fjianben  i  ceremonien  i  gfa^  i  rcgimct  1 1|  ^lotticel)  i  fitten  i 
bram^ifriegigemerfiifrui^titllieriHeibttng  bii  bcrllenbe-- 
rnng  i  etigentlid)  f nr  bie  angen  gejielt  1 9lu(^  ettoag  bo  nem  ll 
gefanbcnen  tteltcn  tinb  3ttM«'«i*t  "^"^  ©erofoiSoonnell 
be  monte  biaaiS.  »ronbon8  §ijioriibn  bcrgleii^en  || 
fatclttifnnb  anft  angennmnem glanbtoirbigen  1|  erfornc  i 
ioelt|(|rti6ernimufelig  5^  §««!(  *''»ll9^  ^^  ""^  ^^^^"' 
weitleiiffigen  biic^ern  in  ||  ein  ^anbebut^  engeteibt  bnb 
ber-llfajftibormalg  bergUii^eu  11  w  ateiitr^  nie  an^H 
gangen.  II  <»lit  einem  ju  enb  angeleniften  JRegifter  otteS 
ittn^alteS.ll^nm^t  §eribnb  fi^antoet  bie  mcrtf  beS  §er.- 
renber  fo  binnber  bar-lltir^  ijiiiifier  bie  menfi^ett  finber. 

ajlal.  xlbj.  Ixiiij.  II* 

ANNO.   M.D.XXXIIII. 


♦  Anglici  :  World-book  :  mirror  and 
likeness  of  the  whole  globe,  set  forth  and 
arranged  by  Sebastian  Franck  of  Woerden 
[in  Holland],  in  four  books,  namely  m 
Asia,  Africa,  Europe  and  America.  Also 
of  all  the  lands,  nations,  provinces  and 
islands  comprised  therein;  situation,  size, 
plants,  properties,  and  of  the  people  and 
inhabitants  thereof,  names,  shapes,  mode  of 
life,  morals,  religion,  creeds,  ceremonies, 
laws,  government,  policy,  manners,  cus- 
toms, war,  industry,  fruits,  animals,  cloth- 
ing and  fashions,  properly   represented   to 


the  eye.  Also  something  about  the  newly 
found  world  and  islands,  not  tVom  such 
like  fables  as  those  of  Berosus,  John  of 
Monte  Villa  [Mandeville  ?]  and  S.  Bran- 
don's history,  but  from  accredited,  trust- 
worthy, experienced  geographers,  broujzht 
together  with  great  pains  from  widely  dif- 
fused books,  and  embodied  and  published 
in  a  single  volume,  the  like  of  which  in 
German  was  never  before  published. 

Come  and  behold  the  work  of  the  Lord, 
so  wonderful  among  the  children  of  men. 
Ps.  46,  64. 


3^6 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


\  C'lA.,         Verso  of  folio  ccxxxy\\: 

tanfent  funff  ||  littnbert  ^ier  bub  btel)ffi|teii  tot.  II 

On  the  verso  of  fol.  ccx  begins  the  account  of  America  : 

H  ^m  9(mrrica  bent  bicrbten  te^I  ber  toetti^litiio 
i^.mc.xcbii.  erfunben. 

*^*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  four  unnumbered  preliminary  leaves  + 
two  unnumbered  leaves  +  leaves  marked  in-ccxxxvn  -j-  sevon 
unnumbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

Sebastian  Franck  or  Francus  seems  to  have  been  an 
author  of  some  consequence,  since  we  find  him  included 
among  the  Prima  classis,  in  qua  auctorum  damnatie  me- 
morise Opera  edita,  &c.' ;  but  as  we  have  not  access  to 
such  outlandish  authorities  as  the  works  of  Arnold*, 
SeckendorfF',  Crenius*  and  Keckermann',  we  borrow 
the  following  from  Jocher*. 

"  Ein  Wiedertaufer  und  Mysticus  aus  Deutschland  oder  von  Woer- 
den  in  H-jlland,  hielt  sich  um  1535  zu  Ulm  auf,  von  dannen  er  sich 
aber  wegen  seiner  Irrthumer  wegbegeben  mussen.  Er  lehrte  mit  den 
Stoicis,  dasz  alls  Siinden  gleich  waren,  und  alle  Secten  und  Religionen 
mit  zur  wahren  Kirche  gehorten,  verachtett  die  heilige  SchrifFt,  und 
drunge  nur  auf  den  Geist ;  dannenhero  er  von  Luthero,  Melanchthonc 
und  andern  widerleget  worden,  auch  noch  vor  Luthero  um  1545 
gestorben." 

Bayle  says^  concerning  the  work  before  us  : 

"II  nc  taut  pas  oublier  une  Chronique  Allemande  ou  il  mela  bien  des 
choses  prodigieuses.  Mr.  Moreri  a  parle  de  lui  sous  le  nom  de  Franck 
mais  il  u'en  dit  presque  rien,  quoique  Mr.  de  Sponde"  qu'il  cite  eut 
pu  tournir  des  particuJaritez,  &  entre  autres  celle-ci,  que  Francus  fut 
chasse,  de  Strasbourg,  et  que  sa  Chronique  y  fut  condamnee." 

'  Index  Libror.  Prohib.  (Madrid,  fol.,  *  de  Histor,  in   Opera  Omnia}  Geneva, 

1667),  p.  884.  fol.,  1614 

'  Kirchen  und  Ket%er  Histor.  ;  Frankft.,  '  Allgem.  Gelehrt.  Lexic,  Vol.  II,  p.  7 1 9. 

fol.,  1699.  '  Diclionnairt,  art.  Francus. 

*  dmm.de Lutier. f  FTinkft.,^to,  l6gi.  '  ylnnal.    ad  ann.    1519,    num.    9.    af, 

*  j^ttimadvert. }  Lyons,  8vo,  1697.  Baylc. 


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Bibliotheca  Americana.  327 

Iq8.    XERES  (^FRANCIS)— Within  a  border  and  under  a  vignette :       I534.. 

).  prouittcia  tiel  oru^o  Uamaua  la  nueua  OTaftiHa : 
irfluquiftatia  pot  cl  magnitico  II  g  esforcatio  cauas 
Ufto  jFrancifco  pijarvo  l)iio  Uel  capitan  ©on^alo 
pirarro  taua  ||  Ueto  tie  la  ciuUatJ  tie  Crugillo :  como 
capitan  genetal  tie  la  cefarea  5  catijoUca  II  mageftati 
t\  emperatiot  b  reg  nlo  fenot :  iSmbiatja  a  fu  ma= 
geftati  por  jFrancisco :  tie  Xere?  natural  tie  la  mug 
noi)le  B  mug  leal  clutiati  tie  ^euilla  fecretario  tiel  II 
folJtetiicljo  feftot  entotiag  las  puincias  g  couquifta 
tie  la  nueua  (ttaftilla  g  bno  II  tie  los  primetos  con= 
quiftatiores  tiella.  ^^^^^iS=S****^ 
C  dFue  bifta  g  examinatia  efta  otra  por  man= 
tiatiotie  los  fenores  (nquifitiorejs  II  ticl  arrobifpatio 
tie  ^euilla:  r  impreffa  en  cafa  tie  IJartljolome 
perej  en  el  mes  tie  Julio,  afio  tiel  parto  birginal 
mil  X  quinientosi  g  tregnta  g  quatro.*  ^  ^. 

S  IS  S 

*  *  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  eighteen  unnumbered  leaves,  printed  in 
*     two  columns,  the  verso  of  the  last  leaf,  which  contains  a  con- 
tinuation of  a  piece  of  poetry,  is  in  three  columns. 
(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


*  AngUce  !  A  true  account  of  the  con- 
quest of  Peru,  and  of  the  province  of 
Cuzco,  called  New  Castil,  subjugated  by 
Francisco  Pizarro,  Captain  [in  the  service] 
of  His  Majesty  the  Emperor,  our  master. 
Dedicated  to  his  Majesty  the  Emperor,  by 
F.  Xeres,  a  native  of  the  Most  Noble  and 


Very  Loyal  city  of  Sevilla;  serretary  of  the 
said  captain  throughout  the  conquered 
provinces  and  countries  of  New  Castil,  and 
one  of  the  first  conquerors  of  that  country. 
A  work  seen  and  examined  by  order  of 
Messrs.  the  Inquisitors  of  the  Archbishop- 
ric of  Sevilla,  and  printed  in  the   estab- 


L 


318 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


1534- 


"Je  n'ai  pu  trouvcr  sur  Francisco  de  Xcres  d'autres  renseignemenu 
que  ceux  qu'il  nous  donne  lui  ineme.  On  voit  par  le  titrc  de  son 
livre,  qu'il  etait  secretaire  de  Fran9ois  Pizarre  ct  Tun  des  premiers 
conquerants  du  Perou :  cc  fut  par  Tordre  de  ce  chef  qu'il  ecrivit  sa 
Relation  a  Caxan^alca  meme  II  fut  de  retour  h  Seville  le  9  Janvier 
1 534  [June  3d,  see  recto  of  E  8,  in  this  edition].  C'est  probable- 
ment  I'Histoire  du  Perou,  sans  noin  d'auteur  qui  se  trouve  cite  sous 
le  No.  41  [our  No.  199,  a  very  different  work],  de  ma  bibliotheque 
americaine  ;  mais  comme  je  n'ai  jamais  vu  I'original,  je  n'ai  pu  verifier 
ce  fait. 

"  La  conquthe  du  Perou  fut  traduite  en  langue  italicnne,  ou  plutot 
en  dialecte  veiiitien,  par  Domenico  de  Gaztelu,  gentilhomme  navar- 
rais,  natif  de  'I'udela,  et  secretaire  de  don  Lope  de  Soria,  ambassadeur 
de  Charles  V  pres  la  republique  de  Venise  oil  I'auteur  la  fit  imprimer 
en  1535,  chez  Stephano  da  Sabio  [our  No.  200,  and  at  Milan,  in  the 
same  year,  by  Gotardo  da  Ponte,  our  No.  201].  Le  texte  espagnol 
fut  reimprime  en  1 547  a  Salamanque  chez  Francisco  Fernandez  de 
Cordoue  [//»/rrf].  II  parait  que  cette  seconde  edition,  la  seule  que 
j'aie  pu  me  procurer,  fut  revue  avec  beaucoup  de  negligence,  car  on  y 
trouve  quelquefois  des  passages  tronques,  dont  on  ne  peut  comprendre 
le  sens  qu'a  I'aide  de  la  version  de  Gaztelu :  ce  qu'on  a  eu  soin  de 
faire  observer  dans  les  notes. 

"  Cette  relation,  fort  rare  aujourd'hui,  est  restee  inconnue  a  plusieurs 
historiens  cspagnols  :  je  citerai  entre  autres  Pizarro  y  Orellana  qui, 
dans  son  ouvrage  sur  les  hommes  illustres  des  Indes,  ne  dit  pas  un  mot 
de  Xeres  ni  de  son  livre,  quoiqu'il  ne  parle  presque  que  des  Pizarre, 
et  qu'il  remplisse  ses  marges  de  citations. 

"  Barcia  a  fait  entrer  I'histoire  de  la  Conquete  du  Perou  dans  sa  col- 
lection intitulee  :   Historiadores  primitivos  de  las  Indian*." 

(TernauxV) 

This  edition  of  Xeres  contains  the  following  passage, 
which  is  not  in  the  edition  of  1547  : 

^  porq  en  efta  clutiatr  He  ^euilla  algunosi  con 
emi)iuia  o  malicia:  s  otros  con  ignorancia  tre  la 
bertrati  en  fu  al)fencia  p  maltratatro  fu  Ijonra  bn 
ijitialso  liolieUo  it  tie  atrenta  ta  falfa  cotta  ptre  ^ 
ta  Ijonratram^te  g  ta  lecos  ^fu  natural  ija  biuitio  i 
Iji^o  t  fu  Bfenfa  log  figuietes  metross. 


lishment  of  Bartholomew  Perez,  in  the 
month  of  July.  The  year  of  the  Immacu- 
late Conception  1534. 


'  Vol.  111. 

'  Introduction  to  his  own  translation  of 
Xeres  i  Paris,  1837. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


329 


This  is  followed  by  a  long  piece  of  poetry,  containing    1 534* 
a  greater  number  of  stanzas'   than   in   the  Salamanca  1- 
edition. 

Besides  the  Italian  versions  already  mentioned,  there 
is  another  in  Ramusio*,  an  English  translation  in  Pur- 
chas',  and  one  in  French  in  Ternaux's*  Recueil. 


IQQ.  ANONYMOUS— IVithin  a  wide  border,  and  under  a  large 
square  vignette  ( which,  we  think,  is  only  a  repetition  of  the  border 
and  woodcut  in  No.  198). 


<H 


llamatia  la  nucua  ©aftlUa.  iLa  iil  tierra  pottiiuina 
bo  II  lutttatj  fue  marauillofamente  conquiftatia  en 
la  feliciljinma  bentura  tiel  iBmpetatior  g  i^cg 
nueltto  feftor;  g  por  la  prutiencia  g  porla  pru= 
tiettcia  g  effueno  tjel  mug  maBnifico  g  bale  II  rolo 
cauallero  el  ©apitan  jFrancifco  plfarro  ©ouerna  II 
t3t  g  atielantatio  tje  la  nuewa  cafttllaig  Ue  fu 
tif*  nail  no  l^ernanUo  pi^arroig  Tie  fus  animofos 
capiianess  II  r  fieleg  g  elforiaUos  compafterost  q  cd 
el  U  t^llaron.  II 

Colophon, 

Within  an  ornamented  border,  and  below  the  double-headed  eagle 
escutcheon  : 

(E  iSfta  otra  fue  imptelfa  II  en  la  mug  noble  g 

•"It   [the  Canqu\ita\   ends  in   Barcia  Tom.   xxvi,   1853,   and  Oayangos   con- 

with  some  poor  verses  in  defense  of  Xeres,  jectures   tliem   to  have    been   written    by 

by  a  friend,  which  are  ampler  and  more  Oviedo."     Ticknor,  Httt.  of  Span.  Lilt., 

important  in  the  original  edition,  and  con-  Vol.  II,  p.  40,  note  37. 
tain  notices  of  his  life.     Thev  are  reprinted  *  Raccolta.  Vol.  Ill,  fol.  37»-9a. 

in   the   Biblioteca   Je   Autor'e,    EtpaghoUt,         "  Filgrimcs,  Pt.  11,  B.  vil,  pp.   I49'-4- 

42 


2^0  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  c'lA.,  muB  II  leal  ciutiati  He  3e  II  uillaien  rafa  He  13atto= 
-_ — lome  II  pete^  en  el  II  me»  tie  II  Sltrll.  II  *  II  afto  He 
mil  r  (lulniStofiJ  g  ttefinta  »  quatro.  II 

*  *  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  eight  unnumbered  leaves,  printed  in 
long  lines;  the  verso  of  the  seventh  leaf  contains  a  portion  of 
the  text,  followed  by  a  repetition  of  the  large  chap-like 
vignette  on  the  title-page.     Recto  ot  the  eighth  leaf  blank. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

This  Narration  is  very  different  from  Xeres'  (No. 
198).  It  was  evidently  composed  by  one  of  Pizarro's 
companions,  and  seems  to  be  the  original  of  the  third 
part  of  our  No.  190,  but  more  succinct  than  the  Italian. 
The  Bibliotheca  Grenvilliana'  states  that  it  is  identical 
with  the  Relatione  d'un  Capitano  Spagnuolo  della  Conquista 
del  Peru,  published  by  Ramusio,  but  with  "  many  varia- 
tions," an  assertion  which  we  have  no  means  of  verify- 
ing at  present. 

Direct  referenctt :  [  Schwindel,  TAesavrvt  hibtiithtcalit,  Vol.  l,  page  1 66. 
\   Fanzir,  AnnaUi  Typ<igr.,Yo\.  Vll,  page  ia4,  No.  38. 
I  TiRNAux,  No.  41. 
Ebert,  No.  5129. 
Graesse,  Vol.  U,  page  ijl. 
Brunet,  Vol.  II,  col,  230. 
Bibliotheca  Uebtriana,  Part  vii,  No.  4600. 

IC'JC.  200.    XERES-GAZTELU— Recto  of  the  first  leaf : 

LIBRO     PRI  II  MO    DE   LA 

CONQVISTA  II  DEL    PERV  &  prouin- 
cia  del  Cuzco  ||  de  le  Indie  occidentali.  || 

Then,  coat-of-arms  with  the  double-headed  eagle,  holding  in  its 
claws  a  medallion,  with  the  following  legend  inscribed  thereon: 
EXIVIT  SONVS  EORVM,  then  : 

Con  gratia  &  priuilegio  per  anni  X.  || 


•  Vol.  II,  page  536. 


nvi 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  331 

Ftrsa  of  the  title-page :  ^535* 

Neflum  ardifca  di  ftampare  il  prefente 

volume  o  1|  far  ftampar  ne  ftampato  da 
altri  dare  a  vendere  in  |1  li  loghi  del  noftro 
dominio  fotto  la  pena  che  nel  ||  breue 
appare". 

Colophon  : 

Stampato  in  Vinegia  per  Maeftro  H 
Stephano  da  Sabio  del  MD  ||  XXXV.  Nel' 
mefe  11  di  Marzo.  || 


♦  *  4to  (signatures  in  eights),  title  one  leaf,  +  fifty-nine  unnum- 
bered leaves,  -{■  one  leaf  with  the  above  colophon  on  the  recto, 
and  on  the  verso  an  escutcheon  sporting  a  large  crown  with 
the  word  SABIO.  The  narrative  begins  on  the  recto  of  the 
fifiileaf. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York,  Providence  and  Harvard  Coll.  Libr.) 


'  Mr.  Grenville,  in  a  MS.  note  added 
to  his  copy  (now  in  the  Britisli  Museum), 
refers  to  this  passage  as  indicating  that  the 
present  was  the  iirst  of  the  two  editions  of 
Gaztelu's  vers'on. 

In  reply  to  Grae88r'b  fling  at  Brunet, 
viz. !  "  Ciuand  il  dit  que  ces  deux  derniers 
volumes  [Gotardo  de  Ponte's  and  Stephano 
da  Sabio's  editions]  sont  la  traduction  de 
I'ouvrage  de  F.  Xeres  (V.  Oviedo  et  Xeres), 
je  ne  comprends  pas  comment  la  version 
d'un  livre  pourrait ctre imprimee  en  1 5  3 5  qui, 
selon  les  propres  mots  de  I'auteur  (a  la  fin 
de  la  y^erdadera  rclacion  1547,  v.  Oviedo), 
avait  ete  ecrit  dans  la  ville  de  Caxamalca 
par  ordre  de  Frani;.  Pizarro  peu  avant  le  re- 
tour  de  I'auteur  a  Seville,  le  3  Juin  1538." 
{Vol.  II,  page  151,)  we  beg  leave  to  state 
that  there  is  no  authority  whatever  for  this 
"peu  avant  le  3  Juin  1538."  On  the 
contrary,  there  is  evidence  that  Xeres  wrote 
his  account  long  before  that  date.  The 
Verdadera  relacion  ends  with  the  arrival  in 
that  city  of  the  vessel  commanded  by  Rod- 


riguei:,  on  board  of  which  it  is  more  than 
probable  that  Xeres  was  a  passenger,  as  the 
craft  belonged  to  him  ;  "  La  vna  de  lat  doi 
tiaos  postrcras  q  lUgaron,  en  la  j!  vino  for 
maestre  Fracisco   rodriguez  et  de  Frandsco 
de  Xerez  natural  desta  ciudad  d"  Seuilla  i  el 
(}ual  escriuio  esta  relacion,"  Sec,  Sec.    (Recto 
of  the  last  leaf  in  edition  of  1534.)     This 
vessel    reached    Seville,   June    3d,    15341 
"  En  el  iohredicho  aHo  (i.  e.  "  y4«o  d'  mil y 
quiniitot y  treynta  y  qtro"  see  a  few  lines 
above,  where  he  refers  to  the  arrival  of  a 
vessel  "  a  nueue  d'enero"),  el  tercero  dia  del 
met  d'  Junio  llegaro  otros  dos  naos  en  la  vna 
venia    for    maestre    Fracisco     rodriguez." 
(Recto  of  E8.)     The  Xeres,  which  is  the 
origin.:!    from    which    the   present   Italian 
translation,  as  well  as  the  Spanish  reprint  of 
1547  weremade,  was  printed  in  July,  1534. 
Tliere  is  no  difficulty,  therefore,  in  under- 
standing how  a  worli  commenced  at  Caxa- 
m.ilca  as  early  as  March,  1533,  which  is 
the  date  when  Francisco  Pizarro  "  ordered 
that  a  rclacion  should  be  written  to  be  sent 
to  His  Majesty,"  and  which  was  completed 


•  5.' 


t  h      i 


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I  e-?  c,        Italian  translation  of  Xeres'  Conquista  (No.  198),  by 
"^  Domenico  de  Gaztelu  or  Gazulo",  but  with  the  omission 

of  the  last  sentence  and  stanzas  in  the  original. 
Alcedo  says'  of  the  translation  : 

"  Nacio  en  la  villa  de  Ochandiano  del  SeBorio  de  Vizcaya  (Ternaux 
says  in  "  Tudcla") ;  era  Caballero  del  Orden  de  Alcantara,  Ministro 
del  Tribunal  de  la  contradixia  mayor  y  del  Consejo  de  Hacienda." 


Direct  reference!  i 


'  Haym,  Bihiioleca  Italiana,  Vol.  I,  page  177,  No.  a. 
Pinelo-Barcia,  col.  649. 
Rich,  No.  11. 
Brunit,  Vol.  II,  col.  130. 
Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  IX,  No.  3179. 
Bibliotheca  Grenvilliana,  page  536. 
Bibliotheca  Broiuniana,  page  19,  No.  65. 
Livret  Curieux,  No.  1 39. 


201.   IDEM  o.''t/5— Above  a  woodcut  like  that  described  in  No.  200. 

LIBRO     PR  I  11  MO    DE    LA 

CONQVISTA  II  DEL  PERV  &  Prouen- 
cia  del  CuzcoUde  le  Indie  occidentali.  |1 

No  imprint. 
Colophon  on  the  verso  of  the  last  leaf: 

([  Iirlpreffo  in  Milano  per  Domino  Go- 
tardo  II  da  Ponte  a  compagnia  de  Domino 
lo.  II  Ambrofio  da  Borfano  nel  Anno  ||  del 
Mille  cinquecento  e  ||  trenta  cinque.  || 


in  all  probability  a  few  days  after  the  vessel 
arrived  at  Seville,  in  June,  1534,  should 
have  been  printed  in  July  of  the  same  year, 
and  republished  in  a  different  language  nine 
months  afterwards. 

We  should  also  add  that  Brunet  gives 
the  date  of  1535  10  de  Ponte's  edition, 
whilst  Graesse  prints  it  "1538."  The 
title  of  da  Sabio's  is  also  given  by  the  latter, 
in  a  manner  which  differs  materially  from 
the  copy  before  us.     Must  we  understand 


that  da  Sabio  printed  two  separate  editions 
of  the  Gaztelu  version  in  1535,  and  that 
de  Ponte  likewise  gave  two,  one  in  1535, 
and  the  other  in  1538? 

'  Antonio,  Biblioth.  H.  Nova,  Vol.  I, 
p.  329. 

•  Bibliot.  Americana,  MS.,  Vol.  I,  men- 
tions also  an  imaginary  edition  of  Gaztelu's 
version  of  Xerei,  "Madrid,  4to,  1525." 
We  think  there  is  a  life  of  Gaztelu  in 
Baena,  Hijos  de  MadrH. 


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333 


Then,  within  a   frame,  a  shield   with  an   eagle,  and   the  words     1535" 
GOTARDVS.-__DE.___PONTE =— — 

**  4to  (signature  in  eights),  title  one  leaf  +  three   preliminary 
leaves  +  forty  unnumbered  leaves. 

(British  Museum.) 

This  rarissime  edition  is  altogether  inferior  to  the 
preceding,  in  typography,  paper  or  woodcuts,  and  seems 
to  be  only  a  clumsy  imitation,  but  evidently  of  1535. 

Direct  reftrencn  i  (  Bibliotheca  Grenvilliana, 

\  Livres  curieux,  page  29,  No.  139. 
(  Brunit,  Vol.  II,  col.  130. 


20  2.     APUNUS  {PETERy— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

Jt   COSMO  k,   II  GRAPHIC     INTRODVCTIO  1| 

cum  qulbufdam  Geometria  ac  Ajiro-  \\  nom'ies  principijs  ad  earn  ||  rem 

necejfarijs.  \\ 

Then  sphere,  and  below  :   MD  XXXV. 

Colophon  : 

Venetijs  per  lo.  Antonium  de  Nicolinis  de  Sabio^  \\  sumptu  ^ 
requifitione  D.  Melchioris  \\  Seffa.  Anno  Domini.  \\  MDXXXV. 
Men/is  lanuarij.  || 

*  *  Sm.  8vo  ;  title  one  leaf  +  thirty  numbered  leaves  +  one  leaf, 
*    verso  blank,  but  on  the  recto.  Nicolini's  printer's  mark,  and 
the  device  dissuhlivm  infida  societas. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

See  verso  of  leaf  22  and  recto  of  23  ;  and,  supra,  our 
Nos.  149  and  150. 

Direct  references :  f  Cancellieri,  Dissertazioni,  page  46. 
■)  Canovai,  yita,  page  300. 
(Humboldt,  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  iv,  page  loi. 

20 'J.    SABELLicus  (M.  c.)— "  RhapfodisG   Hiftoriarum 
Enneadum. 

"  Paris,  1535,  folio." 

(Meusel'.) 


«  Bibliotheca  Hiitorica  Vol.  l,  Part  I,  page  96. 


JI|J,l»lll«JW'ILI«' 


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ICOC.         204.  BB/iGOAf^S(y^c.  pw/z,.)— "Supplementum  Chron- 
icorum,  Omnes  Fere  Hiftorias  quae  ab  orbe  condito 
hadenus  geftae  funt  iucunda  admodum  dicendi  breuitate 
compledlens.     Opus  fane  quam  vtiliflimum,  &  cuiufuis 
conditionis    viro    perneceflarium  :     primum    quidem   a 
Venerando  patre  Jacobo  Philippo  Bergomate  ordinem  Ere- 
mitarum  profeflb  confcriptum,  deinde  vero  eruditorum 
quorundam  diligentia,  multis  mendis,  ac  fuperfuis  qui- 
bufdam  rebus  diligentiflime  repurgatum,  in  ftudioforum 
omnium  gratiam  atque  vtilitatem.     Cui  infuper  addita 
eft  noftrorum  temporum  breuis  quaedam  accefllo  eorum 
annorum   hiftorias   ac   res   turn  priuatas  tum  externas 
compledlens  quae  ab  anno.  1500.  ad  annum  1535.  tum 
hie,  tum  etiam  alibi  geftae  funt.     Parifiis,  M.D.XXXV 
(1535).    Apud  Simonem  Colineum,  in  vico  D.  Joannis  Bel- 
louacenfis.     Cum  priuilegio.    Et  a  la  fin.    Praeftantif- 
fimum  hoc  atque  utiliflimum  totius  orbis  Chronicorum 
opus :  ea  omnia  quae  ab  ipfa  mundi  creatione  ad  annum 
ufque  1535.  perada  funt  breui  quodam  ftylo  compledlens 
excufum  eft  Parifiis,  opera  ac  praelo  Jacobi  Nyuerdi  ad- 
fcriptitii  bibliopolae  &  chalcographi :  fumptib.  uero  ac 
diligentifl".  cura,  Simonis  Colinaei,  &  Galeoti  a  Prato  bib- 
liopolarum  Parifien.  Anno  a  Chrijio  nato  M.D.XXXV. 
pridie  Calendas  Augufti.  in  Fol.,  Feuillets  443.     Sans 
les  pieces  liminaires. 

"  Quoique  cette  Edition  soit  furieusement  tronquee,  on  ne  la  doit 
pas  tout  a  iait  rejetter,  a  cause  du  Livre  XVII.  qui  sert  de  Suplement 
a  rOuvrage,  &  qui  contient  certains  articles,  qui  ne  sent  pas  a  me- 
priser:  comme  ceux  tP Aldus  Manutius,  Christopborus  Longolius,  Jo. 
Calphurnius,  Janus  Lascaris,  Sec,  mais  il  faut  absolument  I'accom- 
pagner  d'une  Edition  plus  ancienne :  entre  lesquelles  je  choisirais 
celle  de  I'an  1506.  in  Fol." 

(Clement'.) 


i^( 


I 


Biblintheca  Americana.  23S 

The  chapter  ^^  w  permaximis  insults,  &c.,  is  on  folio    1535" 

412.  —=!!=-= 

This  truncated  edition,   with    the   valuable    chapter 
XVII,  however,  was  republished  at  Venice,  1547%  folio. 


Direct  references , 


'  Bibliothttiue  Curieuse,  Vol.  HI,  page  t8o. 

Histor.  Typogr.i  London,  17 1 7,  Part  II,  page  12. 

Maittaire,  Annates,  Vol.  11,  Part  11,  page  824. 
'  NicEBON,  Memoires,  Vol.  xvil,  page  223. 

Fabricius,  Biblioth.  Lat.  med..  Book  IX,  page  38. 


205.     VARTHEMA-DIAS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

Uattijema  Bolognefe  nello  iSgitto,  luUa  ^o-llria 
nella  Arabia  tjeferta,  U  felice,  ueUa  13er  II  fia,  ncUa 
Jntiia,  $f  nella  iSttgopia.  ILe  fetje  II  r I  biuete  ^ 
coftutni  ticlle  pretate  ^ro  II  uincie.  C  IBt  al  ^fente 
asiotttoui  al  II  cune  Jifole  nouamcte  rittouate.  II 

Then  large  vignette  similar  to  the  one  in  the  edition  of  1522,  bat 
not  so  well  finished. 
Colophon : 

C  Stampato  in  Vinegia  per  Francefco 
di  AlefTan/ll  dro  Bindone,  &  Mapheo  Pa- 
fini  compani,  a  ||  fanto  Moyfe  al  fegno  de 
Langelo  Ra-  ||  phael.  M.D.XXXV.  ||  del 
mefe  d'Aprile.  ||* 

%*  Sm.   8vo,   title  one  leaf  +  leaves  numbered  from   2-100  + 
three  unnumbered  leaves, 

(Private  Librar)-,  New  York.) 

Direct  references:  j  Haym,  Bibliotheca  Italiana,  Vol.  I,  page  181,  No.  3. 


Panzer,  Annates  Typogr.,  Vol.  viil,  page  545. 


Anglice  1  Printed  at  Venice  by  Francis     the   sign  of  the    Angel    Raphael,  April, 
di  Alexandre  Bindone  and  Mapheus  Pa-     1535. 
fini.  Companions  of  St.  Moses   [  .'  ],  at         The  rest  as  in  No.  98. 


2^6  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  CT  5.     206.    ANONYMOUS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 


3La  notU  <£itta  nuouamente 

ritrouata  alle  JnTiie  con  U 

fuoi  coftumi  r  motii  Ucl 

fuo  He  r  foi  popoli 

Hi  mo))i  tiel  fuo  atiorare  con  la 

tcUa  bfan^a  trcUe  tronne  loro. 

I5t  lie  le  tiua  perfone  ermafrotrite 

donate  tra  (luel  Meal  Otapi- 

tano  tella  iErmata. 

Then  square  vignette. 
In  fine : 

Data  in  ZhauaL    Adi,  xxv.  di  Settembre. 
M.D.XXXV* 

*^*  410,  sine  anno  aut  loco,  text  begins  on  verso  of  title,  followed 
by  three  unnumbered  leaves,  printed  in  italics. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

Our  transcript  is  made  from  two  impressions,  gen- 
erally considered  as  authentic  originals,  but  which  are, 
in  fact,  only  fac-similes  executed  by  the  elder  Harris. 
The  original  is  in  the  British  Museum. 


Direct  references  ; 


Bibliotheca  Grenvittiana,  page  8a2,  and  Part  il,  page  445. 
Bibliotheca  Browniana,  page  18,  No.  63. 
Brunet,  Vol.  Ill,  col.  1021. 
Graesse,  Vol.  IV,  page  183. 


*  jStiglice ;  Letter  from  the  noble  city  ners  of  their  women,  and  concerning  two 

recently  discovered  in  the  Indies,  with  the  hermaphrodites  given  by  the  King  to  the 

customs   and    manners   of  its    King    and  captain  of  the  flpct. 
peoples,  their  religion   and   the  tine   man-  Dated  Zhaval,  September  25th,  1535- 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  337 

207.    or/EDO  ( G.  F.  DE\— Below  the  arms  of  Spain,  printed  in  red:     I  5  3  5 * 

|ci  btflaritt  general 

Then  at  the  bottom  of  the  page : 
yerso  of  the  title-page : 

iitimera  parte  Ue  la  ijiftotia  natural  jj  sfw^ lli^al 
tie  lass  inUias  gHaiS  r  tierra  firme  tiel  mar  oceano : 
efcripta  por  ef  capi  ||  tan  gonmlo   i)eruanTjej  tie 
(©bietjo  r  balties :  alcape  He  la  fortalem  tie- 1|  la 
ciutiafl  tie  lancto  Bomiugo  tie  la  gfla  efpanolaifi 
cronilta  tiela  ^acra  ||  cefarea  u  cati)Olicas  magef= 
taties  tiel  emperaUor  tiou  carlos  quiiito  tie  tal  ndtre: 
rei)  Hue  efpafta:  r  tie  la  fereniffima  r  muj)  potierofa 
regna  tiofta  Juana  fti  matire  nueftros  II  feftoresi. 
H^tsx  cugo  mantiatio  el  auctor  efcriuio  las  cofas 
marauillofas  que  ag  en  tJi-  II  uerfa»  gflas  r  partes 
tieftas  intiias  r  imperio  tiela  eorona  real  tie  caftilla: 
fegtt  lo  bi  il  tio  X  fupo  en  begnte  x  tios  afto<5  r  mas 
que  ija  que  i)iue  r  refitie  en  aquellas  partes :  il  3La 
qual  ijiftoria  eomienra  enel  primero  tiefcubrimietito 
tieftas  intiias :  v>  it  contie  II  ne  en  begnte  libros  efte 
primero  bolumen.  II 

In  fine : 

.  .  .  Ea  qual  it  acabo  x  imprimio  enla  mug 
notle  g  mug  leal  cibtiati  tie  ^ebilla  i  en  la  emprell  ta 

43 


1 

! 


o^g  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1535.  tie  juam  orwmijerBet  1  cl  poftteto  tJia  Kel  meg  tie 
g>etiemtte-  ^fto  He  mil  r  quinientos  g  tregnta  g 
eittco  aftos.  II 

♦  *  Folio,  title  one  leaf,  +  four  preliminary  leaves,  +  text  1-186 
*     4.  table  i86i-i9i  (Colophon  on  verso),  +  Epistola  192-193, 
writh  arms  of  Oviedo  on  the  verso  of  the  last. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York,  Providence  and  Washington  city.) 

As  we  have  already  stated  (page  257)  the  present  work 
is  entirely  different  from  the  Natural  Hystoria  de  las 
ludias,  published  in  1526  {supra,  No.  139).  This  is 
the  genuine  "General  and  Natural  History  of  the 
Indies"  of  Oviedo,  so  often  quoted.  It  was  originally 
divided  into  three  parts,  numbering  in  all  fifty  books. 
The  first  part  is  the  present  No.  207,  which  contains 
nineteen  books,  and,  we  think,  a  portion  of  the  fiftieth 
(on  shipwrecks).  These  nineteen  and  a  half  books  were 
republished  at  Salamanca,  in  1547  {infra).  In  1557, 
the  twentieth  book,  which  is  the  first  of  the  second 
part,  was  printed  separately'.  No  other  portion  of 
this  work  appeared  in  print  until  1851. 

The  traditions  and  stories  concerning  the  subsequent 
fate  of  the  unpublished  parts,  still  find  credence  even 
among  usually  trustworthy  bibliographers.  Some  of 
the  latter,  forgetting  that  in  the  edition  of  1557,  there 
is  a  notice  printed,  announcing  the  fact  that  the  print- 
ing of  the  rest  of  the  work  was  interrupted  by  the  death 
of  the  author^  believe  to  this  day  that  a  great  conflagra- 
tion destroyed  the  printing  establishment  of  Francisco 


'  ^  Libro .  XX  .  De  la  (egunda  parte  de 
la  general  |1  hiftoria  de  las  Indias  .  Efcripta 
por  el  Capitan  ||  Gon9alo  Fernandez  de 
Ouiedo,  y  Valdes  .  Al-  ||  cayde  de  la  forta- 
leza  y  puerto  de  Sacto  Domin  ||  go,  d'la  ilia 
Efpanola  .  Cronifta  d'  lu  Mageftad.  ||  ^ue 
trata  del  eftrecho  de  Magellans.  ||  '[  En 
Valladolid  .  Por  Francifco  Fernandez  de 
Cordoua.  ||  Imprelfor  de  fu  Mageftad  .  Aflo 
de  M  .  o .  LVii.  II 


*^*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  sixty-three 

11.  BLACK  LETTER. 

(Private  Libr.,  Providence). 

»  The  end  of  Chapter  XXXV,  on  fol. 
LXIIII,  which  is  the  last,  reads  as  fol- 
lows : 

" ....  to  para  fu  fuftentacion  eftas 
almendras  que  tengo  dicho. 

"  1  No  fe  imprimo  mas  deft«  obra,  por- 
que  murio  el  autor," 


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339 


Fernandez  de  Cordova,  His  Majesty's  printer,  with  all    1 53 5. 
its  contents,  including  the  printed  parts  and  manuscripts  —_—--—» 
of  Oviedo  ;   while  others  assert  that  the  unpublished 
books  have  never  been  written  at  all,  and  exist  only  in 
the  imagination  of  booksellers.     Even  Brunet  himself, 
as  late  as  the  last  edition  of  his  valuable  Manuel,  asserts 
that  "on   ne  sait  ce  que  sont  devenus  les  livres  21  a 
28,"  although  he  himself  cites  the  work  which  contains 
these  very  books  in  full. 
The  facts  are  simply  these : 

After  Oviedo's  death,  the  manuscripts  of  the  remain- 
ing twenty-nine  and  a  half  books  were  scattered,  but 
nearly  all  collected  again,  since  in  1775  a  set  was  kept 
in  the  archives  of  the  Ministerio  de  Gracia  y  Justicia 
de  Indias  ;   and  Jose  Alvarez  Baena  stated,  when- he  was 
about  to   print  his  Historical  Dictionary,  that  he  had 
copied  and  collated  the  whole,  preparatory  to  publish- 
ing it:   "Todo  se  hallaba  copiado,  comprobado  y  en 
disposicion  de   imprimirse."     At  all-  events,  when  the 
Royal  Academy  of  History  commenced  collecting  the 
manuscripts  of  Oviedo,  for  the  purpose  of  publication, 
it  obtained  possession  of  the  original  codices,  bequeathed 
at  the  beginning  of  the  seventeenth  century  by  the  Pro- 
fessor of  Divinity  in  the  Cathedral  of  Seville  {Maestre- 
escuela),  Don  Andres  Gasco,  to  the  Casa  de  Contrata- 
cion,  and  which  once  belonged  to  the  Convent  of  Mon- 
serrate.     They  lacked  a  few  pages,  which,  we  believe, 
are  still  missing,  and  the  XXVIIIth  Book,  which  was 
afterwards   found   among  some  stray   papers    collected 
from  the  scattered  archives  of  the  Jesuits,  in  the  library 
of  the  Count  de  Torre-Palma, 

The  whole  work  has  been  lately  published  by  the 
Royal  Academy  of  History  of  Madrid,  in  a  style  and 
with  a  care  which  confer  the  greatest  credit  on  the  editor, 
printers  and  publishers'. 

•  Historia  General  y  Natural  de  las  In-  Oviedo  y  Valdes,  Primer  Cronista  del 
dias,  islas  y  tierra-firme  del  mar  oceano,  Nuevo  Mundo.  Publicala  la  Real  Aca- 
por    el    Capitan    Gonzalo    Fernandez     de     demia  de  la  Historia,  cotejada  con  el  co- 


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'535'  As  to  the  composition  of  the  work,  it  seems  to  date 
as  far  back  as  1526*.  Mr.  Ticknor  infers  from  several 
passages  in  Books  xxxiii  and  xxxiv,  that  Oviedo  kept 
each  book  or  each  large  division  open  for  additions  as 
long  as  he  lived'.  The  work,  it  is  well  known,  was 
written  from  official  documents,  sent  to  him  expressly^ 
as  the  authorized  Chronicler  of  the  Indies  ;  an  office 
held  probably  before  by  Fray  Bernardo  GentiP,  and 
afterwards  by  Herrera  and  Solis. 

There  is  a  translation  into  Italian  by  Ramusio'  of 
this  first  part,  the  first  ten  books  of  which  were  trans- 
lated into  French  by  Jean  Poleur"^ 


Direct  TtftTtnui: 


Panzer,  Annates  Typogr.,  Vol.  vil,  page  1 14. 
TCRNAUX,  No.  46. 
BlUNET,  Vol.  IV,  col.  299. 

Bibliotheca  Heheriana,  Part  VI,  No.  2833  (with  autograph). 
Bibliotheca  Brotuniana,  page  19,  No.  64  (with  autograph). 
Historical  Nuggets,  Vol.  11,  No.  1067. 


dice  original,  enri<)'jecida  con  las  enmien- 
das  y  adiciones  del  autor,  e  illustrada  con 
la  vida  y  el  juicio  de  las  obras  del  mismo 
por  D.  Jose  Amado*  de  los  Rios. 

Madrid,  Imprenta  de  la  Real  Acidemia 
de  la  Historia,  1851-52-53-55. 

*J^  Folio,  4  vols.,  map. 

The  1st  vol.  contains  from  Book         I  to  Book  XX. 
"    ja    "  "  "  XX      "     XXIX. 

"    jd    "  "  "      XXIX      "XXXIX. 

"    4th  "  "  "    XXXIX      "  L. 

which  "  libro  quinquagessimo  es  el  ultimo 
libro  de  la  Historia  natural  y  general :  le 
qual  tracta  de  los  infortunios  e  nautragios 
acaescidos  en  las  marcs  de  las  Indias,  islas 
y  Tierra-Firme  del  mar  O^eano." 

*  "  Yo  he  escrito  en  este  breve  Sumario, 
6  Relacion,  lo  que  de  aquesta  natural  His- 
toria he  podiJo  reducir  a  la  memoria,  i  he 
dexado  de  bablar  en  otras  cosas  muchas, 
de  que  enteramente  no  me  acuerdo,  ni  tan 
el  propio  como  son  se  pudieraran  escrevir, 
ni  expresarse  tan  largamente.  como  estan 
en  la  General,  i  Natural  Historia  de  Indias, 
jue  de  mi  mono  tengo  escrita."  apud  Bar- 
cia's  reprint.  Vol.  I,  p.  56. 

*  History  of  Spanish  Litterature.  Vol.  11, 
p.  33,  note  23. 

*  "  Dcmas  desto  digo  que  yo  tengo  ^edu- 
las   reales,  para  que   los  gobernadores  me 


envien  relation  de  lo  que  tocare  a  la  his- 
toria en  sus  gobernaciones  para  estas  his- 
torias."  Introduction  to  B.  xxxiii.  Vol. 
Ill,  p.  258,  of  the  Madrid  reprint. 

'  "  Aunque  el  protonotario  Pedro  Martir 
que  era  de  Milan,  e  fray  Bernardo  Gentil 
que  era  Sicilians,  e  ambos  fueron  historio- 
gratbs  de  S.  M.,  hablaron  en  cosas  de  In- 
dias." (Oviedo,  lib.  34,  cap.  3.)  AH  we 
could  ascertain  concerning  this  Gentil  is 
what  we  found  in  MuRoz  (Prologo,  D.  Xiv), 
viz. :  "  era  del  orden  de  Santo  Domingo, 
residia  y  enseflaba  en  Espafta  a  principles 
del  Siglo  XVI :  era  conocido  del  celebre  co- 
mendador  griego  [?],  y  gozaba  creJitos  de 
ingenioso  poeta.  De  escritos  Suyos  naJa 
he  polido  saber  mas  de  que  penso  ilustrar 
las  hazanas  del  gran  capitan  en  versos  he- 
roycos ;"  and  he  refers  to  three  letters 
(libb.  5,  15  y  17)  in  the  Opus  Epistol.  of 
Lucio  Marineo  (infra). 

"  Raccolta,  Vol.  in,  from  fol.  74  to  fol. 
223. 

'  VHistoire  Naturelle  et  Generalle  dts 
Indes,  Isles,  et  Terre  Firme  de  la  grand  mer 
oceane.  Paris,  by  Vascosan,  1556;  fol., 
5-^-135  11.     (Private  Libr.,  Providence.) 

We  cannot  recollect  where  we  have  seen 
that  Poleur  had  been  Francis  I's  valet-de- 
chambre. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  34^ 

208.    «fiWCH  (G/j£GOijr>-"  Margarita     Philoso-    I  535. 

PHicA,  rationalis,   Moralis  philofophiae  principia  duo 

decim  libris  dialogice  compledens,  olim  ab  ipfo  autore 
recognita,  nuper  autem  ab  Orontio  Fineo,  Delphinate  caf- 
tigata  et  audla,  vna  cum  appendicibus  itidem  etnen- 
datis,  et  quamplurimis  additionibus  et  figuris  ab  eodem 
infignitis.  Quorum  omnium  copiofus  index  verfa  con- 
tinetur  pagella.  Virefcit  vulnere  virtus.  Baftleae  Hen- 
ricus  Petrus  excudebat  impenfis  Conradi  Rejchii  Anno  M.D. 

XXXV.  4. 

"  Hirfch  .  Millen  .  11  .  p.  5^  •  Bologn.   Crev,  11  .  />.   54  •  -8'^^- 

Schw.  iun."       (Panzer'.) 

'•  E'  certo  che  in  una  Carta  fin  dal  IS35.  /«/>'•'«'»  '"  ^"''^'1'''  ^'"^' 
Paria  a  24 .  0  25  gradi  di  Latitudine  Australt.  (Margar  .  Philos  .  p  . 
1534)."        (Canovai'O 

This  map  bears  the  following  title: 

TYPVs   vNiverfalis   terrae,   ivxta   moder- 
norvm  distinctionem   et  extensionem  per 

REGNA  et  PROVINCIAS. 

And  this  inscription : 

paria  feu  prijilia. 

It  seems  that  there  is  in  the  editions  of  the  Margarita 
published  after  151 2,  a  Declaratio  Speculi  orbis  compositi 
a  Gualtero  Liid.  canonico  Deodalensi,  which  can  only  be 
an  extract  from  our  No.  49,  as  we  have  smce  ascertained 
that  it  does  not  contain  the  passage  relating  to  America, 
which  we  mention.  M.  D'Avezac  cites*  concerning 
Walter  Ludd's  works  and  supposed  editions  of  other 
cosmographers,  OberlinS  Gravier"  and  Beauprg. 

,44.  Piiltsiu!,  af.  IMiLLW^  Magasm  Encyclo- 

''■  «  j5««fl/«   Typografi  ,  Vol.  vi,  p.  308,     piJijuf,  for  1799.  Vol.  v,  pp.  32.3-7- 

°«  vSp  d'Amtrko  Vespucci,  p.  185,  note,     ment  de  Saint-Die  ,  Epinal,  8  o,  1836,  pp. 
'  Protection  des  Cartes  de  Geographic  p.      zoz-^. 
„j,;  '  Beaofbe,  he.  at.,  pp.  59-87. 


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20Q.     yADlANUS  (J.y-iVithin  an  elegant  border: 

^  EPITOME  II  TOPOGRAPHICA  |1  TOTIUS 
ORBIS,  II  conferes  ad  ea  potiflimu  lo-||ca,  quoru  paflim  Euan- 
gelifte  II  &  Apoftoli  memnere.  ||  Cum  elencho  audo.  ||  Per 
lochimum  Vadianum  ||  Medicum.  ||  Acceflit  peregrinatio  Petri 
et  II  Pauli  Apolloloru  cum  ra- 1|  tioiie  temporum  ||  Per  Erafmum 
Roterod.  ||  cum  Priuilegio.  ||  I.  G.  1535.  || 

Colophon : 

Antuerpie  apud  loan.  Grapheum  ||  anno.  M.D.XXXV. 

%*  Sm.  8vo,  title  one  leaf  +  three  preliminary  unnumbered  leaves 
-|-  two  hundred  and  twenty  numbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  Parii.) 

See,  on  fol.  208,  the  chapter:  Insula  Oceani pracip. 


Direct  refereticet ;  i  Maittaire,  Annales  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  Y,  Part  II,  page  306. 
(  Panzer,  AnnaUt   Typogr.,  Vol.  VI,  page  2j,  No.  107. 


210.     PTOLEMY-SERVETUS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

CLAVDII  PTOLEiiMAEi 

ALEXANDRINI  ||  geographicae    enar-  || 

RATTONIS  II  LIBBRI  OCTO.II  EX     BILIBALDI     PIRCK- 

EYMHERi||tralationo,  fed  ad  Graeca  &  prifca 
exemplaria  a  Mi-||chaele  Villanouano  iam 
primum  recogniti  jj  Adieda  infuper  ab  eo- 
dem  fcholia,  II  quibufexoleta  urbium  no/ 1| 
mina  adnoftri   fecu  ||  li  more  expo  ||  nun- 

tur.  II  oyiNQVAGINTA  ILLAE  QyOQVE  CVM  || 
ueterum  turn  recent  turn  tabula  adne5luntur  varijo;  \\  incolen- 
tium  ritus  &"  mores  \\  explicantur.  || 


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Woodcut,  with  the  words  VSVS  ME  GENVIT  ;  then  :  '535* 

LVGDVNI   II   EX     OFFICINA     MELCHIORIS     ET  || 
GASPARIS    TRECHSEL    FRATRVM.  ||  M.D.XXXV.  [j 
Ferso  of  the  titU-pnge  : 
MICHAEL  VILLANOVAiN  VS  ||  LECTORIS.  ||  AMPLIf  - 

siMO   DOMINO  II  Sebadiano    epifcopo   Brixi- 
nenfi,  Bibaldus  ||  Pirckeymherus.|| 

♦♦  Folio;  title  one  leaf -I- one  hundred  and  forty-eight  pages + 
*  one  blank  leaf  +  fifty  fuliued  leaves  for  maps,  viz.:  ten  for 
Europe,  four  for  Alrica,  twelve  for  Asia,  one  for  hemisphere. 
On  the  obverse  of  folio  28,  which  treats:  oceani  occiden- 
TALis  SEU  TKRRAE  NOVAE  TABULA,  there  is  3  rude  map,  where 
on  tht^  western  part,  between  N.  L.  50°  and  30°,  are  laid  down 

PARIA3,    J'MiCLI.A    INSVL,    lAMAIQUA,  SPACi    NOHA    [j/V].        U>jae>- 

the  latitude  line  of  2;°  N.  there  is  a  label  in  small  black 
letter  :  "  Spagno'.ia  que  et  Offun  [  ?  ]  dicit  gignit  aur'  mastice, 
aloen,  porcellanim,  canellam  et  zinaber'  Latitudo  insule  4.  40 
milliaria  longitudo  8  80  milliaria.  Et  inuenta  est  per  Chris- 
tophoru  Columbu  laniien  Capitaneum  Regis  Castilie  an  domini 
1492.  Aadle  loco  panis  vesaint  serpentibus  maximis  et  radi- 
cibus  dulcibus  sapore  castanear'  presetentibus.  Under  the 
cquuor,  and  to  tht  right  of  5°  S.  L.  there  is  another  inscrip- 
tion likewise  in  ru  Je  black  letter :  Hec  terraann  adiacentib^ 
insulis  inuenta  est  p'  Cristoferum  Columbum  lanuensem  ex 
mandato  Regio  Castelle."  Beneath  this,  to  the  left,  in  large 
Roman  capitals  TERRA  NOVA.  Opposite  these  words,  to 
the  right,  a  rude  woodcut  of  savages,  and  a  wild  animal  re- 
sembling a  she-panther,  with  a  black  letter  inscription  under- 
neath, beginning  :  Reperitur  hie  anial,  &c.  Folio  50  contains 
the  last  map,  headed  in  rude  woodcut  engraving :  orbis  .  typvs  . 

VNIVERSALIS.IVXTA   .  HYD    OGRAPHORUM   .  TRADP  lONEM   .   EXAC- 

TissiME  .  DEPiCTA  .  I  $22  .  L  .  F.  On  the  west  opposite  40 
N  L  ifaMla,  a  little  further  to  the  souih  fpagno/a.  Opposite 
15°  S  L.  Batoia  {sic),  to  the  right  of  this  Cambates.  Below 
in  large  black  letter  amCriCa.  The  remainder  of  this 
splendid  volume  is  ended  by  :  INDEX  PTOLEMAEI  copio- 
sissiMVS,  &c.  Beneath,  the  same  woodcut  as  on  the  grand  title- 
page.  Register  A-F  in  sixes,  F  in  seven,  with  Errata  on  the 
recto  of  last  leaf;  verso  blank.  (As  far  as  we  can  recollect, 
this  map  is  identical  with  the  mappamund  in  the  Ptolemy 
of  1522.)      (British  Museum.) 


. 


J44  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

'535*        ^'°''  ^^^^^^^  concerning  the  life,  works  and  martyrdom 

, of  Michael  Servetus,  born  at  Villanueva  in  Aragon,  in 

1509',  or  at  TudcUa,  in  151 1',  or  at  Tarragona',  and 
burnt  alive,  at  the  instigation  of  John  Calvin,  at  Geneva, 
October  27th,  1553,  we  refer  the  reader  to  the  works 
and  dissertations  of  De  la  Roche\  Struvius',  Chauffe- 
pie',  D'Artigny',  Alwoerden',  Sandius",  Bock^  Seelen", 
Benson",  Maty'",  Boysen",  Mosheim",  Wigand",  Gib- 
bon'\  Wright",  Sigmond",  Drummond",  Romey'", 
Saisscf'^  de  Valayre",  Galiflfe",  Rilliet",  Schade",  and  to 
Calvin's  own  defence'^  which  never  did,  and  never  can, 
exculpate  him  from  his  complicity  in  this  dreadful  crime. 
Our  readers  are  aware  that  one  of  the  charges  brought 
against  Servetus,  and  which  led  to  the  immolation  of 
tnat  unfortunate  man  by  a  set  of  fiendish  fanatics,  whose 


'  Michel  de  la  Ruchf,  Bihlioth'erjue 
An^loisr;  AmstcrJ.,  iSmo,  1717-2S,  Vol. 
II,  p.  yi)  ;  Al.woF.RIiKN,  Hiilor.  Miih.  Ser- 
•veli  .  ,  .  Pisseriiiiione  exfoiita  ;  Hdiiist., 
4ti),  1727;   NicERoN,  Alimoirci,  Veil,   xi, 

p.  114- 

'  U'Arhgny,  Nouveaux Memoires,  Vol, 

II,  p.  56. 

'  CiiAUKtEi'iK,  art.  Servel,  nute  A. 

*  U.  cil..  Vol.  V,  pp.  5-22,  anJ  M(- 
moires  rf  I.iteialurt  i   LoiiJ.,  8vu,  1712. 

*  Bi'hlioth.  Hiilor.  Lilt.  ;  Iciu,  8v(i, 
1763,  Vol.  Ill,  p.  1828. 

*  Bihiiiilheca  Anti-Trinilariorum,  Cic. ; 
Ainsteriiani,  8vo,  1684,  pp.  6-15. 

'  Hisloria  ^ntilrinitiiriorum  ;  Lcip/ig. 
8vo,  1774-76,  Vol.  II,  p.  JiJ,  17 

*  Htltila  I.iiieraria  ;  Lubeck,  l2mo, 
1716,  N.  II,  pp.  52-76. 

*  Brief  Accouni  of  thr  ptrsecution  and 
turning  of  Ser-velui  for  an  heitlicf  Lond., 
8vo,  1743. 

'»  yiulhenlic  Memoirs  oj  ihe  Lije  of 
Richard    .Mead,    M.   D.  f    London,    8vo, 

»755- 

"  Hisloria  Mich.   Serveii,   Ditsertattone 

tnarrala}  Vitemb.,  4to,  17 1 2 

"  /Indertueilig^er  l^ersuch  einer  ■vollstiin- 
digen  und  unparlheyischen  Keiisergeschichle; 
Helmst.,  4to,  1748. 

"  De  Servelismo  s.  de  /inlitrinitariii  j 
Ratisbon,  8vo,  1575- 


'*  .VliscfUaniMius  Works  (Land.,  Svo, 
1814),  Vol.  V,  p.  400  t<]. 

"  /Vn  A/iology  for  Servetus  (  Wisbech., 
8va,  1806. 

'"  i/ie  Unnoticed  Theories  of  Servetus,  a 
Dissertation  addressed  to  the  Medical  Society 
of  Stockholm  ;   Lond.,  8vo,  1826. 

"  The  Life  of  Michael  Serx-etus,  the 
Spanish  Physician,  -who,  for  the  alleged 
crime  of  Heresy,  was  entrapped,  imprisoned 
and  burned  by  'John  Calvin,  in  the  city  of 
Geneva,  Oct.  27,  1553,  Lond.,  121110, 
1830,  reprinted   1848,  i2mo. 

"  Hommes  et  Choses  de  Divers  Temps  f 
Paris,  i2nio,  1864,  pp.  121  to  171. 

'•  Mrlanges  d'llistoire,  de  .Morale  ei 
de  Criti'jue ;  Paris,  l2mo,  1859,  pp.  lly 
to  217. 

'■"'  Fragment  Historitjue  sur  Michel  Ser- 
vel (Lcgendes  et  Chroniques  Suities)  f  Paris, 
l2nio,  1842. 

"  Notices  GiniaUgiques  sur  les  families 
genevoisesf  Geiii'vc,  8vo,  1831-1836. 

Procis  Criminel  Intente  a  Geneve,  en 
1553,  contre  Michel  Servel,  redigce  d'apres 
les  Documents  Originauxf  Geneva,  I2nio, 
1844. 

"  Etudes  sur  le  proces  de  Servtt  f  Stras- 
burg,  8vo,  1853. 

'•  Defensio  orthodox^  fdei  de  sacra  Tri- 
t.iiate,  centra  prodigiosas  errores  Mirhaelis 
Serveii   Uispani  1   uhi   ostenditur    hareticoi 


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345 


foul  memory  should  be  held  in  abhorrence  for  ever,  was  I  53  5. 
a  passage  from  the  present  edition  of  Ptolemy,  stating  _-, — -—-m 
that  Palestine  was  not  such  a  fertile  country  as  people 
generally  believed,  since  modern  travellers  related  that 
It  was  entirely  barren.  We  have  shown,  after  Mosheim 
{supra,  page  202"),  that  the  incriminated  passage  was 
already  m  the  Ptolemy  of  1522.  Besides,  it  was  omitted 
in  the  second  edition  which  Servetus  published  in  1541 
{infra). 

"  J'ai  d^ja  observe  que  Gomara  fait  allusion  aux  editions  de  Servct 
de  1535  ct  1541.  Dans  la  premiere  on  trouve  :  '  Iterum  Colonus 
rcversus  Continentem  et  alias  quam  plurimas  insulas  adinvcnit  quibus 
nunc  Mispani  felicissime  dominantur.  Toto  itaquc  quod  ajuni  aber- 
rant ccelo  qui  hunc  continentem  Anicricam  nuncupari  contcndunt, 
cum  Americus  rnulto  post  Columbum  camdem  tcrram  adicrit,  nee  cum 
Hispnnis  Hie,  sed  cum  Portugallensibus  ut  suas  merces  commutaret,  eo 
se  contulit.'  Cette  note  severe  et  en  partie  injuste,  n'a  pas  empcche 
I'editeur  d'ajouter  a  son  edition  la  carte  de  1522  qui  oftre  en  grand* 
caracteres  le  nom  d'Amerique." 

(Humboldt".) 


Direct  riftrencet ; 


Raidil,  Comment,  de  Claud.  Plol.  Geogr.,  page  6l. 
FAI1RIC1U3,  Bihiioth.  Graca,  Vol.  v,  p.ige  276. 
Panzer",  Annaln  'I'ypogr.,  Vol.  VII,  page  365,  No.  776. 
HoKifMANN,  Lexicon,  Vol.  Ill,  page  319. 
Brunet,  Vol.  IV,  col.  955. 
Labanott"  Catalogue,  page  8,  No.  43. 


lure  gladii  coercendos  esie,  £f  nominatim  de 
/lomiiie  hoc  lam  imfio  jinlc  &  meriio  iump- 
tum  Geneva J'uisse  sufpliciuiii,per  Joannem 
Cal'    'lam;  Oliva  8vo.  1554. 

"  See,  also,  an  elaborate  aiticle  in  the 
New  Memoirs  of  Literature  i  Lond.,  8vo, 
i72<;-7,  Vol.  I,  p.  26,  irj. 

'•'■  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  iv.  p.  137, 
note. 

"  Thanks  to  the  Rev.  S.  R.  Johnson, 
Professor  in  the  N.  Y.  General  Theolog- 
ical Seminary,  we  have  at  last  obtained 
tlie  loan  of  a  copy  of  Panzer's  /Innalrs 
Typcgrupliici !  a  work  wo  were  unable  to 
purchase,   hire   or  borrow    in    New    Voik 


.^r  Philadclphi.1,  and  which  we  were  com- 
pelkd  to  gi)  to  Boston  to  consult.  We 
should  not  mention  this  circumstance, 
wliich  in  other  communities  will  cer- 
tainly seem  trivial,  but  for  a  desire  on 
our  part  to  state,  tliat  if  we  have  among 
us  book  collectors  whose  selfishness  is  a 
scandal  and  a  disgrace,  we  can  also  boast 
of  a  few  bibliopliiles  who  delight  in  plac- 
ing within  the  reach  of  those  who  need 
them  all  the  resources  at  their  command. 
Dr.  Johnson  is  one  of  these,  and  we  take 
this  method  to  acknowledge  the  favor  re- 
ceived at  Ilia  hands,  and  to  express  our 
sincere  gratitude. 


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I  C*}  Ct  211.    STEINHOW£L  (})— Within  an  ornamented  border,  with 

—  medallions  in  woodcuts : 

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tnettiptttcmett  ||  8ottnbeni®tottbeiet)9enfd)cfftetti|l  !)if= 
torlctt  I  tticfctt  1  manicr  i  fltten  i  on  ||  bub  oUgong.  ^u^beu 
filtttttttlrllblBften  §lMei£>n  att  ®(o|lfe  dnb  21^W 
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*  *  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  five  unnumbered  preliminary  leaves, 
*    text  i-cxxxvii  numbered  leaves.    Woodcut  by  H.  S.  Benham*. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

See  verso  of  cm  : 

35011  %mx\n  bcm  blcrbten  djc^l  ber  SBelt  1 1|  ^tuno 
iHa  .  ccrrxrbii .  crfuttbett.il 

We  are  of  impression  that  the  present  is  a  later  edi- 
tion of  Henrich  Steinhowel's  Chronicle,  of  which  the 
Kloss  Catalogue"  mentions  one  dated  Frankfort,  1531. 

Direct  reference:  '  Graesse,  Vol.  II,  page  140. 

212.  LORiTZ  OR  GLAREANUS—^  Tit  Geographia  liber 
.  unus,  ab  ipfo  autore  iam  tertio  recognitus.  Apud  Fri- 
burgium  Brifgoiae  An.  M.D.XXXVl.  D/V^wV  autor  Joanni 
a  Lafco  Poloniae  baroni.  In  fine :  Apud  Friburgum 
Brijgoicum  Anno.  M.D.XXXVl.  Excudebat  Joannes  Faber 
Emmeus  Juliacenfis.  4. 

«  Hirfch  Milieu,  in.  p.  52.  Bibl.  Dilherr." 

■^  (Panzer'.) 


'■'  Page  191,  No.  4049.         '  Annalei  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  Vll,  p.  6i,  No.  19. 


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Bibliotheca  Americana. 
213.     TRITHEMUS  {J.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 


347 


1536. 


lOANNIS    TRIiiTHEMir 

ABBATIS  SPANHEllmenfisEpiftolarum 
familiarum  libri  duo  ad  diver  ||  fos  Ger- 
maniae  Principes,  Epifcopos,  ac  eru  ||  di- 
tione  praeftantes  uiros,  quorum  1|  Catalogus 
fubiedus  eft.  |1 

Woodcut  representing  two  heads,  then  : 

CAVTVM  EST  PVBLICO  EDICTOH 

Caefarea  Maieftatis,  ne  quis  alius  impune 
intra  |1  quatuor  annos  imprimat.  ||  H AGA- 
NOAE  EX  OFFICINA II  Petri  Brubachij, 

1536. 

**  4to,  title   one  leaf  +  seven  unnumbered  leaves  +  three  hun- 
dred and  forty-four  pages. 

(Imperial  Library,  Paris.) 

Whatever  may  be  the  merits  of  this  laborious  Bene- 
dictine (born  in  1462,  died  in  1516  or  1519'),  as  a  pro- 
lific describer  of  books  which  existed  only  in  his  imagin- 
ation, or  else  which  were  destroyed  immediately  after 
his  elaborate  description  of  them,  for  no  traces  have 
been  seen  since,  he  is  entitled  to  a  place  in  this  Biblio- 
theca only  on  account  of  a  letter,  dated  August  12th, 
1507,  and  addressed  to  Jo.  Valdicus  Monapius,  wherein 
the  "  uncritical"  Spanheim  abbot  complains  that  he  is 
too  poor  to  purchase  a  map  (probably  Ruysch's)  which 
cost  at  Worms  as  much  as  forty  florins.  The  passage 
is  on  page  296,  and  as  follows: 


'_^Spondi's    continuation   of    Baronius'     lit,  Jugemem  des  Sa-vans,  Vol.  Il,  page 
Annaltt,  Anno  1499,  n.  XI,  apud  Bail-     i„  note  i. 


1536. 


348 


* 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


"  Comparavi  autem  mihi  ante  paucos  dies  pro  acre  modico,  sphaeram 
orbis  pulchram,  in  quantitate  parva  nuper  Argentina  impressam, 
simul  et  in  magna  dispositione  globum  terras  in  piano  cxpansum  cum 
Insulis  et  Regionibus  noviter  ab  Americo  Vesputio  Hispano  inventis 
in  Mari  Occidentali,  ac  versus  Meridien  ad  Parallelum  ferme  deci- 
mum*  (quadragesimum)." 


Kloss'  annotation'  "  Ed.  unica"  can  only  refer  to  a 
separate  edition  of  those  valuable  Epistles,  as  the/  are 
included  in  the  Opera  historica,  Franco/.,  1601,  fol*. 


Direct  references : 


Maittaire,  Annalei  Typogr.,  Vol.  ii,  Part  n,  page  853. 
Panzer  AnnaUi  Typogr,,  Vol.  vii,  page  115. 
MoRERi,  Dictionnaire,  Vol.  VIII,  page  230. 
Cancellieri,  Dissenazloni,  page  46. 
Brunet,  Vol.  VI,  No.  18731. 
Canovai,  (■'iaggi,  page  299. 

Lelewel,  Geogr.  du  Moyen-Age,  Vol.  II,  page  145,  note. 
Bodleian  Catalogue,  Vol.  Ill,  page  669. 


214..    "Petri   Martyris  ab  Angleria  de  rebus 
Oceanicis  et  de  orbe  novo  decades.     Lut.     Paris.  1536. 

In-fol."       (Ternaux'.) 


y 


We  failed  to  discover  other  mentions  of  this  edition 
than  those  to  be  found  in  Graesse^',  who  copies  Brunet, 
and  in  Brunet',  who  copies  Ternaux.  The  British 
Museum,  Mazarine  and  Imperial  Libraries  at  Paris, 
as  well  as  the  private  collections  in  this  country,  all  so 
rich,  have  been  duly  ransacked,  but  such  an  edition 
could  not  be  found. 


*  "  Parallelum  decimum  doit  designer 
50°  d'apres  I'usage,  bicn  connu  par  l.i  lettre 
de  Toscanelli,  dc  compter  5°  pour  chaque 
intervalle." — D'Avezac. 

'  Catalogue,  page  258,  No.  3628. 

*  Vossius,  de  Latin  Hislor.,  page  644. 
*■  Bibliolhi^ue  /imcricaine,  Jio.  47  hii. 


*  Tresar,  Vol.  I,  p.  I  30. 

'  Manuel,  Vol.  I,  col.  293. 

*  The  translation  of  Oviedo,  by  Poleur, 
mentioned  by  Ternaux  (Xo.  47),  under 
the  date  of  1536,  is  erroneously  dated.  It 
was  printed  at  Paris  by  Vascosan  in  1556- 
(See,  supra,  p.  340,  note  9.) 


i<:  \ 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


349 


\ 


215.      MjiXIMILIAN   OF   TRANSYLVANIA  &   PIGAFETTA.         153"* 

Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  -  — =» 

IL  VIAGGIOllFATTo  DA  GLi  spa||gnivo- 
LiA  II  TORNo  a'l  ||  mondo.  ||  Con  Gratia  per 
Anni  xiiii.llMDXXXVI.il 

*  *  4to,  nne  loco  (but  supposed  to  have  been  printed  at  Venice), 
*     title  one  leaf,  +  three  preliminary   leaves,  +  forty-seven   un- 
numbered leaves.    On  the  recto  of  the  last  leaf,  a  short  vocab- 
ulary of  the  language  of  Brazil.     No  water-mark. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

The  present  contains  an  Italian  translation  of  the  two 
accounts  of  Magellan's  voyage  already  described  {sufra, 
Nos.  122  and  134).  The  version  of  Pigafetta's  narra- 
tion is  taken  from  Fabre's  French  translation,  which 
itself  was  made  from  the  Italian.  If  Pigafetta's  account 
was  originally  written  in  French,  how  is  it  that  Fabre 
had  to  copy  an  Italian  original?  If  it  was  originally 
written  in  Italian,  how  is  it  that  the  present  translation 
was  made  from  the  French  ? 

"  Je  m'etais  d'abord  fie  a  Ramusio,  qui  s'exprime  a  faire^croire  que 
c'est  lui  qui  le  premier  avait  songe  a  traduire  en  italien  PExtrait  dti 
voyage  de  Pigafetta  fait  par  Fabre,  et  la  lettre  de  Maximilien  Tran- 
silvain ;  mais  j'ai  trouve  depuis  que  Ramusio  n'a  tait  que  copier  une 
traduction  imprimee  a  Venise  en  1536  [the  above]. 

"  II  n'a  change  que  fort  peu  de  mots.  II  a  abrege  le  discours  pre- 
liminaire,  a  supprime  les  numeros  des  cent  quatorze  chapitres  dans 
lesquels  Fabre  avait  divise  I'ouvrage,  ct  y  a  ajoute  les  titres  dcs  cha- 
pitres  dans  lesquels  il  I'a  divise  lui  meme.     II  en  a  mcme  copie  lea 

fautes  les  plus  grossieres  .   .   .  •" 

(Amoretti'.) 


Direct  references: 


Bibliotheca  Heheriana,  Part  IX,  No.  3129. 
BihUctheca  Grenvillianti,  page  548. 
Bibliotheca  Browniana,  page  19,  Mo.  67. 
Historical  Nuggets,  No.  2753. 
Libri  Catalogue  tor  1861,  No.  2S8. 

Brunet,   Vol.   V,  col.    1 1 67,  contains  also  a  sharp  but   merited 
reply  to  the  overrated  Dibdin'. 


'  Premier  voyage  autour  du  Monde,  p.  xlv,  note.     »  See  Library  Companion,  p.  409. 


^^o  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1 5  3  ^»  2 1 6.   FLAMiNius  (JOHN  ANTHoNTT)—"  Epiftok  ad  Pau- 

lum  III.  Pont.  Max.  initio  Pontificatus  .  f/w/^^'"  ^^^^'^ 
recentis  Aphricani  defcriptio  ad  AmplifT.  P.  Antonium 
Puccium  Sandorum  Quatuor  Cardinalem  .  Eiufdem  de 
quibufdam  memorabilibus  novi  Orbis  nuper  ad  nos 
tranfmiflis  ad  eundem  .  Eiufdem  Confliftus  ille  Pannoni- 
cus  cum  Turcis,  in  quo  Pannoniae  rex  interiit.  In  fine: 
Bononiae  ap  .  Vincent .  Bonardum  Parmen  .  et  Marc,  Anto- 
nium Carpen  .Jocios  .  Anno  Jalutis  M .D  .  XXXVI.  Menfis 
Martii .  4. 

"  Bibl.  Sen.  Lip/." 

(Panzek*.) 

This  Flaminius  must  not  be  mistaken  for  the  John 
Flaminius  whose  life  and  death  are  related  in  so  touch- 
ing a  manner  by  Valerianus^  The  reader  will  find  a 
full  account  of  John  Anthony  Flaminius  (/.  e.  Zarrabini 
de  Colignola,  1464-1536),  in  Vossius',  Fabricius*  and 
Tiraboschi'".  We  suppose  that  this  epistle  de  quibusdam 
in  Novo  Orbe,  is  also  to  be  found  in  Capponi's  edition* 
of  Flaminius'  Letters. 

217.  ziEGLER  (JAMES)— '  Tcrrae  JanSlae^  quam  Palaef- 
tinnm  nominant,  Syfiae,  Arabiae,  Aegypti  et  Schondiae  doc- 
tiffima  defcriptio,  una  cum  fingulis  tabulis  earundem  regionum 
typographicis  (lege  topographicis)  authore  iacobo  zieg- 
LERO,  Landavo-Bavaro.  Holmiae  plane  regiae  urbis  cala- 
mitojfma  clades,  ab  eodem,  dejcripta.  Terrae  Jan£lae  altera 
defcriptio,  iuxta  ordinem  alphabetic  quae  ad  fcripturam 
proxime  direBa  efl,  utilijfima  etiam  plebeio  leSiori,  authore 


'  Annales  Typogr.,  Vol.  IX,  p.  415,  No. 
164. 

'  dc  Litterator.  Infelicilale,  Lib.  I,  p.  23. 
•  de  Historicii  Latinis,  p.  682. 


*  Bibtiothtca  Med.  £f  Infim.  Lot.  Lib. 
VI,  p.  501. 

*  Storia  de  la  Let.  Ita!.,  Vol.  vii,  p.  1408. 

*  Efist.  Familiares;  Bologna,  4to,  1744. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  35' 

vvoLFGANGO   vvEissENBVRGio,  prUettt  Academiac  Bafili-    153"' 
enfis  Mathematico.     Index  totius  operis  locupletiffimus,  qui  === 
in  priori   editione   defiderabatur.      Elenchus,  quo  libro    et 
capite  Bibliorum,  et  quoties  finguli  Palaejlinae  loci  continen- 
tur.      Argentorati,    apud   Vuendelinum    Riche/ium    1536. 

[/«-/o/.']       (Mkusel".) 

See  the  chapter  relating  to  '*  Schondia,"  and  our  No. 
170. 


218.    BROCARD  ^  PETER  MARTYR— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 
DESCRI-  II  PTio  TERRAE  SANCTAE  ||  exaaiffima,  autore  Bro- 

cardo   Mona-||cho  libellus   diuinarum  fcriptura- 1|  rum  ftudioils, 

multo  II  vtiliffimus.  II 

De  Nouis  Infulis  nuper   repertis,  &   de  |1  moribus   incolaium 

earundem,||per  Petrum  Martvrem  ||  res  ledtu  digna.  || 

t  ANTVERPIAE  |1  In    sedibus    loannis    Steelfii  ||  Anno    a 

Chriftonato||M.D.XXXVI.|| 

Colophon : 

Typis  loan  Graphei.  |1  M.D.XXXVI.  || 


♦  *  Sm.  8vo  for  size,  signatures  in  fours,  title  one  leaf  +  twenty- 
*    eight  unnumbered  leaves,  then  the  Je  insults  in  nineteen  un- 
numbered leaves,  on  the  verso  of  the  last  a  vignette,  with  the 
words  :  «'  10.  steel  sivs.  Concordia,  res  parue  crescunt." 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York,  Brooklyn  and  Providence.) 

A  copy  before  us,  in  all  other  respects  like  the  pres- 
ent, lacks  the  colophon. 

The  first  part  contains  only  an  account  of  a  journey 
to  the  Holy  Land  in  1232,  by  a  Dominican  monk,  of 
German  origin,  call  jd  Brocard,  Brochard,  or  Brocardus, 
often   quoted   by   Danville.     The   second   part,   which 

'  Gesnek,  Bibliotheca,  p.  3S8.  Catai-.g.  Lihror.  rarior.  (ed.  1753),  P-  734! 

»  Bihiioth   Hislor.,    Vol.    I,    Part    11,  p.      Boecler,  Bihliogr.  critica,  p.  571;    Baur, 

95 ;  Feeytag,  AnaUcta,  p.  1114;  Vogt,     Bibliolh.  Lib.  Rar.  uni-vcrs.,  Vol.  iv,  p.  323. 


■  nil  iipinfH  III 


352 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


IC'26.    begins  at    the  twenty-ninth    leaf,   is   the  extract  from 
Peter  Martyr,  described,  supra,  page  187,  No.  no. 


larty 

Direct  referenceti 


Bibliotheca  Grenvil/iana,  page  98. 
Bibliotheca  Browniana,  page  19,  No.  66. 
Bibliotheca  Barloiviana,  — . 
Rich,  Supplemettt,  page  2. 
Brunet,  Vol.  I,  col.  1270. 


IC-jy.  219.    SACRO  BQSco  [GioyANNi  Di)—"  S^h&r^   Volgare 

— -==!  novamente  tradotta  con  molte  notande  additioni  di 
Geometria,  Cofmographia,  Arte  Navigatoria,  et  Stereo- 
metria,  Proportioni  et  Quantita  delli  Elementi,  Dif- 
tanze,  Grandeze,  et  Novimenti  di  tutte  li  Corpi  celefti, 
cofe  certamente  rade  et  maravigliofe.  Auctore  M. 
Mauro  Fiorentino  Phonafco  et  Philopanareto,  curious 
woodcuts  {two  containing  a  globe  with  America).  4to, 
Fenetiis,  B.  Zanetti,  1537.  Printed  'ad  ijlanzia  di  Gio- 
van  Orthega  di  Carion  Burgenje  Hijpano  comorante  in 
Firenze.'  No  doubt  this  Orthega  was  the  author  of 
the  arithmetical  Treatife  printed  at  Rome  in  151 5,  as 
Mauro  calls  him  a  mathematician." 

(LlBRl'.) 

It  is  evident  that  a  work  originally  written  in  the 
early  part  of  the  thirteenth  century  cannot  contain  any- 
thing on  America ;  but  the  De  Sphera  of  Sacro-Bosco 
(;.  e.  John  Holywood,  Oxon.)  became  to  the  mathema- 
ticians and  geographers  of  the  century  following  the 
re-discovery  by  Columbus  an  inexhaustible  source  of 
commentaries,  some  of  which  certainly  contain  refer- 
ences to  the  oceanic  discoveries,  attributed,  especially 
by  the  Italian  commentators  to  Vespuccius.  The  above 
contains  only  a  woodcut,  but  Fr.  Giuntini's  Commen- 
taria  (chap.  111),  present  features  of  greater  interest; 
unfortunately  the  date  of  publication^  excludes  the 
work  from  our  Bibliotheca. 


Catalogue  for   1861,  No.  6412. 


Lyons,  1578,  8vo. 


•^ 


uiwnpn^ 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 
2  20.    GIUSTINIANI  (AUG.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 


zsz 


1537 


* 


"^  CASTIGATISSIMI  d%^ 

ANNALI  CON  LA  LORO  COPIOSA 
TAVOLA  II  della  Eccelfa  &  lUuftrifTima 
Republi.  di  Genoa,  da  fideli  &  approuati 
Scrit/  II  tori,  per  el  Reueredo  Monfignore 
Agoftino  Giuftiniano  Genoefe  Vefcouo  di|| 
Nebio  accuratamente  racolti.  Opera  cer- 
tamete  molto  laudeuole,  a  Stu/Hdiofi  afTai 
comoda,  &  communemente  a  tutti  vtilif- 
fima.  Facedo  per  ||  la  varieta  delle  opere 
chiaramente  conofcere,  quanto  fi  deb  ||  ba 
da  tutti  riprouare  el  male,  &  conftante- 
mente  pro/ 1|  curare  el  bene  della  fua  Re- 
publica.  II  ^  ^  •<?  II 

Then  large  woodcut,  two  angels  supporting  the  arms  of  Genoa,  with 
the  inscription  AVREA  LIBERTAS  VEXILLVM  GENEVE. 

%  GENOA.  II  ^  M.D.XXXVII.  *•?  || 

Cum  gttttitt  t  pritttle0t0. 


*  John  Stoeffler,  b^rn  in  Suabii,  in 
1452  (Bayle).  or  in  1471  (D'Avezac, 
Prcjectiiins  Giogr.,  p.  49),  died  in  1 5  30 
(D'AvEZAC,  he.  cii.),  or  at  Tubingue,  in 
\^zx(Voiilzs,dc  Matkesi.  lib.  ill,  p.  148), 
or  at  Blaubers,  in  1531  (Melch.  Adam, 
yit.  Philos.,  p.  74),  of  the  plague  or  from 
the  effect  of  a  shelf  which  struck  him 
on  the  head,  in  accordance  with  his  own 
prediction  (Calvisius,  ap.  Bayle),  was 
not  only  a  mathematician,  astronomer  and 
astrologist,  but  also  a  remarkable  cosmo- 


grapher.  We,  therefore,  suppose  that  there 
may  be  a  map  or  some  passage  relating  to 
America  in  the  following  work  : 

"  Cosmographica  aliijuot  descriptionesjo. 
StCeJieri  jusliiigensis  malhematki  insignis } 
de  sphara  cosmograpkica,  dc  duplici  lerra 
proiectione  in  planum,  hoc  est,  qua  ratione 
commodius  chartre  cosmographica,  quas  map- 
pas  mundi  vocant.  designari  queant.  Omnia 
recens  data  per  Jo.  Dryandrum.  Marpurg. 
Euch.  Cervicornus,  1537." 

*^*  4to,  20  11.  +  5  plates  or  maps. 


45 


^^4  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

C  "2  7  •         Colophon : 

=—  ^  Finifcono  li  annali  della  Inclita  Citta 
di  Genoa  co  diligen  1|  cia,  &  opera  del 
nobile  Laurentio  Lomellino  forba,  ftapati|| 
in  la  delta  citta  Lanno  deirincarnacione 
del  noftro  Si/ 1|  gnore.  M.D.XXXVII.  Et 
nono  della  reforma  ||  ta  Liberta.  Regnante 
el  quinto  Duce.  Per  ||  Antonio  Bellono 
Taurinefe  con  gratia  ||  &  priuilegio  della 
eccelfa  Re/ 1|  publica  di  Genoa,  a  di  ||  xviii. 
de  Mazzo.  ||  1^  ||  ^  ^  II  ^  II 

%♦  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  thirteen  unnumbered  leaves  +  two  hun- 
dred and  eighty-two  numbered  leaves. 

(Harvard  College  Library.) 

These  are  the  well-known  annals  of  the  Republic  of 
Genoa  by  Giustiniani,  the  editor  of  the  polyglot 
Psalter  (No.  88  bis).  The  work  contains  on  fol.  ccxiix 
an  interesting  account  of  Columbus,  and  a  mention  of 
the  bequest  supposed  to  have  been  made  by  the  Ad- 
miral "«//'  ufficio  di.  S.  Georgia  la  decima  parte"  of  what 
he  owned,  for  the  erection  of  an  hospital,  we  believe. 
The  passage  is  sometimes  cited  to  impart  an  air  of 
authenticity  to  the  codicil,  made  according  to  military' 
usage,  and  written  on  a  blank  leaf  of  a  breviary,  said  to 
have  been  presented  to  Columbus  by  Alexander  VI, 
and  found  afterwards  in  the  Corsini  library  at  Rome,  or 
picked  up  in  a  book-stall,  and  purchased  for  a  few 
cents'. 

As  to  the  Annals,  Bayle  quotes  Francesco  Zazzera*, 
to  prove  that  the  manuscript  was  tampered  with  by  the 


•  Nous  on  Columbus,  p.  1 60.      »  apud  Mich.  Justiniani,^/(  Scrittori  Ligur.,  p.  19. 


Bibtiotheca  Americana. 


355 


editor  or  publisher.      Some  extracts  and   translations    1537' 
into  French  will  be  found  in  one  of  the  histories  of 
Lewis  XII,  published  by  Theodore  Godefroy'. 

Dirtcl  reftrtnces  s  [  Jovius,  Elogia  Doctor,  viror.,  cap.  cxxx. 

Vossius,  Je  Hittor.  Latin.,  lib.  ill,  page  68 1. 

Haym,  Bihiioltca  Italiana,  Vol.  i,  page  1 51. 

FoNTANiNi,  BibUot.  deir  Eloquensui  ital..  Vol.  11,  page  ^1^. 

CancellierI,  Ditsertazioni,  page  139. 

Brunet,  Vol.  11,  col.  1618. 

5(A/;oM«:a  Grtnii/V/iaiKi,  Part  II.  page  ail. 

Crevenna  Catalogue,  Vol.  T,  page  201. 

221.     BORDONE  (^B.)— Within  a  wide  ornamented  border: 

ISOLARIOiiDI    BENE- 
DETTO 11  BORDONE  NEL  QVALI 

SIllRAGIONA  DI  TVTTE  LE  ISOLE  I|  Del  mondo, 

con  li  lor  nomi  antichi  &||  moderni,  hiftorie, 
faiiole,  &  modi  II  del  loro  viuere,  &  in  qual 
parte  ||  del  mare  ftanno,  &  in  qual  ||  parallelo 
&  climallgiaciono.llRICORRETTO  ET 
DI  II  Nvovo  RisTAMPATo  1|  con  la  gionta  del 
Monte  II  del  Oro  nouamente  ||  ritrouato.  || 

Then  vignette,  and  IN  VENETIA. 

Colophon :  , 

Stampato  in  Venetia  per  Francesco  di 
Leno.  II 

V  Folio,  sinne  anno,  title  one  leaf  +  nine  preliminary  leaves  + 

seventy-four  numbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

We  suppose  the  above  to  be  the  edition  mentioned 
by  Rich^  with  the  following  note : 

'  Our  readers  are  aware  that  this  learned     ton's,  and  Jean  de  Saint-Gelais'  Hisloires 
jurist  published    at   Paris,   between    1615     dc  Loun  XII. 
and  1622,  Claude  de  Seyssel's,  Jean  d'Au-         «  Biblioikcta  Americana  Vitus,  No.  19. 


ii 


»^6  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

XC<in  "  This  edition  was  probably  published  before   1 540.     At  the  end 

^'^''     i,  a  copy  of  a  letter  from  the  Prefetto  of  New  Spam,  giving  an  ac- 

_  in  a  ..up/  ,.   „  ,        n- :_    .  r,,         At  p.    lO    IS    a 


'  count  of  the  conquest  of  Peru,  by  Pizarro,  in^  ^33- 
plan  of  the  great  city  of  Temistitan  (Mexico). 

Direct  rtferencet :  (  Mapoteca  Colombiana,  No.  10. 

J  Sttvem'  American  Bibliographer,  page  41. 
(Brunit,  Vol.  I,  col.  nil. 


2  2  2.  NUNEZ  (PEDRO)-''  Tratado  da  Sfera,  com  a  Theo- 
rica  do  Sol,  ^  da  Lua,  e  0  primeiro  libra  da  Geografia  de 
Claudio  Ptolomeo  Alexandrino  [aumentados  con  muchas  ano- 
taciones  y  figuras  para  fu  mas  facil  inteligencia']  Hunc 
Nonnius  [/.  e.  the  above  Nunez],  annotationefque  & 
figuras  adjunxit.     Simul  editus  eft  : 

"  Urn  [das']  Tratado  em  defenjam  da  Carta  de  marear 
com  0  regimiento  da  altura  [en  los  cuales  Je  declaran  todas 
las  principales  dudas  de  la  nauegacion,  con  las  tablas  del 
movimiento  deljolyju  declinacion,  y  el  regimiento  de  la  al- 
tura ;  aft  al  medio  dia,  como  en  los  otros  tiempos]  Olifipone 
apud  Germanum  Gallardum  1537,  in  folio." 

(Antonio*.) 

Black  letter,  pp.  26.     (Rich*.) 

"  El  celebre  Martin  Alfonso  de  Sousa,  propuso  a  Nunez  varias 
dudas  sobre  la  naucgacion,  de  resultas  de  la  que  habia  hecho  a  la 
India  por  los  mares  del  sur ;  y  la  satisfaccion  que  dio  a  ellas  la  abrio 
campo  para  examinar  los  principios  cientificos  de  la  nautica  y  reiutar 
los  errores  en  que  se  incurria,  por  la  ignorancia  de  los  navegantes. 
Con  este  objeto  habia  escrito  y  publicado  en  1537,  dedicandolo  al 
Infante  D.  Luis."     (Navarrete'.) 

For  a  magnificent  and  true  eulogium  on  Nunez,  the 
greatest  of  the  Portuguese  mathematicians  (born  in 
1492,  died  in  1577),  the  teacher  of  Don  Sebastian  of 

"r^enacion   ,obre   la    Hhtoria   de    la         1  f  (*'"'*•  *'^  .'^"'''',T°'- "' P;""- 
Nautica,  pp.  .7-174.  '  *'*'""*•  ^"'"""^  '""•"^  ^°-  *^- 


Ribliolheca  Americana. 


357 


Portugal,  and  the  precursor  of  Newton  (as  regards  the     1537' 

theory  of  light  and  colors,  in  the  De  Crepuscu/is),  see 

Navarrete',  Barbosa  y  Machado'*,  Stockier',  Montucla'", 
and  Teissier^.  M.  Denis  says  that  "  le  P.  Simon  de  Vas- 
concellos  lui  attribue  un  Roteiro  do  Brasii,  qui  n'a  jamais 
ete  public." 


2  2'^.    HUTTICH-GRrNAEUS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

NOVVS  ORBIS  REGIO  ii 

NVM     AC     INSVLARVM     VETERIBVS      INCOGNITA- 

RVM  II  una  cum  tabula  cofmographica,  & 
aliquot  alijs  confimilis  ||  argumenti  libellis, 
quorum  omnium  catalogus||fequenti  pate- 
bit  pagina.  ||  His  acceflit  copiofus  rerum 
memorabilium  index,  jj 

Then  printer's  mark,  and 

Nihil  arduum  fatis. 

ADIECTA    EST     HVIC     POSTREMAE     EDITIONI  || 

Nauigatio  Caroli  Caefaris  aufpicio  in  co- 
mi/  II  tijs    Auguftanis    inftituta.*  ||  bash  eae 

APVD  lO.  HERVAGIVM  MENSE  ||  MARTIO  ANNO 
M.  D.  XXXVII.  II 


♦  Biblioteca  Lmiiania.  *  Anglici :  Like  No.  171,  with  the  ad- 

•  Ensaio  hiuor.   i^hre  e  origem  e  progr.  dition  of  the  following: 

dasrr.athcm.  em  Portugal i  Paris,  Svo,  18 ly.  "To  this  last  edition  is  added  the  navi- 

•///■««■«</«  .l/<jM.-md«>tj(edit.  1756),  gation   undertaken   under  the   auspices  ot 

Vol.  I,  p.  468.  the  Emperor  Charles. 

''  Eloges  des  Scavant,  Vol.  1,  p.  471.  "  Basle,  November,  1537." 


3^8  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  Cjy.         Colophon: 

-^—~- BASILEAE   PER  lO  HERVAGIVM  MENSE  NOVEM- 

BRI.  II  ANNO   M.  D.  XXXVI.  [sic]  || 


%*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  twenty-four  unnumbered  leaves  +  six 
hundred  pages  -f  one  leaf  on  veno  of  which  the  printer's 
mark.     Mappemund  described  as  B,  supra,  page  294. 

(PrivatL  Libr.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

In  addition  to  the  contents  of  the  early  editions,  this 
contains  the  letter  of  Maximilian  of  Transylvania,  from 
page  585  to  page  600. 


Direct  referinces  i 


Bihiiotheca  Heber'iana,  Part  xii.  No.  8  J  I. 
Bihliotheca  Bronvniana,  page  19,  No.  69. 
Bihiiotheca  Barlowiana,  page  14. 
Bihliotheca  Brevoortiana,  — . 
K.li)S3  Catal.,  page  ao6,  No.  2888. 
TroMel,  No.  10,  under  the  date  of  1536k. 


I  C'28.  224.  5W5£Z.i./ct/s— "  Rhapfodiae  Hiftoriarum  Ennea- 
dum.     Bafle,  Hervagius,  1538,  2  vols.,  fol." 

(Meusel'.) 

"  Cette  edition  en  quatre  volumes  in  folio,  chcz  Hervagius  [the 
complete  edition  of  1560]  avait  ete  precedee  I'an  1538  par  une  Edition 
en  deux  Volumes  in  folio,  chez  le  meme  Hervagius ;  mais  celle-ci  ne 
contenait  que  les  Enneades,  &  les  dix  Livres  d'Exemples,  avec  une 
Hiitcrica  Synopsis,  qui  continuait  les  Enneades  jusques  a  I'annee  1538. 
Cette  continuation  fut  faite  par  Celius  Secundus  Curion." 

(Bayle'.) 


225*    LORiTZ  OR  GLAREANus—"  De  Geographia  Liber 
unus.     Venet.  Sabio,  1538,  8vo." 

{Bihliotheca  Heheriana'.) 


•  Bihliotheca  Historica,  Vol.   I,  Part  l,         *  Dictioitnaire,  Vol.  iv,  p.  lo8,  note  E. 
page  96.  •  Part  i,  No.  2967. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  359 

226.     MARINRO  (L.)—lVithin  a  tasteful  border  :  '539* 

.INITVM.SAPIENTIE.  TIMOR.    '^ 
DOMINI  II 

Then  the  arms  with  the  double-headed  eagle,  followed  by 

ILudo  naatinco  ^iculo  OTo-  II  tonifta  li  im  Mm^- 
taticj^  II  tie  las  cofass  memora  II  bUs  tie  ISfpafta.  II 

Alio  de.  M.D.xxxix. 

Colophon : 

C  acaljofe  la  prefcnte  obta  tje  laa  co- 1|  fag  JU 
lufttfg  8  excellentess  tie  iSfpafta.  iffompuefta  pot 
el  tjoctimmo  II  baron  Eucio  laarineo  ^iculo  OTovos 
ttifta  be  fu.  3.  OT.  OT.  II  iW.  ISn  la  noble  milla  bv 
aicala  be  |iK«are8.  3&n  II  cafa  be  *uan  be  i3tos 
cat  I  a  (iTatotie  biasi  bel  II  mes  be  *ulio.  Mt  ittil  g 
(©uinientofii lis  Ctegnta  s  llueue  aftos.  II  (/.) 

*  ♦  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  nine  preliminary  leaves  +  one  hundred 
and  ninety-two  numbered  leaves. 

(Harvard  Coll.  Library'.) 

Our  readers  recollect  that  the  great  decay  of  letters 
in  Spain  under  John  II,  Henry  IV,  and  even  of  Fer- 
dinand and  Isabella,  was  followed  by  a  revival,  due 
chiefly  to  the  example  of  Italy  at  that  time,  and  the 
influence  of  a  few  Italian  scholars  who  had  made  Spain  the 
land  of  their  adoption,  among  whom  the  author  of  the 
work  before  us  may  be  said  to  have  exercised  a  greater  in- 

'  Prescott's  bequest. 


, 


360 


Bibtiotheca  Americana. 


1^-5  0.  fluence  than  any  other.  Lucius  or  Lucas*  Marineo,  called 
,  Siculus,  owing  to  his  Sicilian  origin,  was  born  about 
the  year  1460.  From  Palermo,  where  he  taught  Belles- 
Letters,  he  removed  to  Spain,  and  held  for  twelve 
years  the  Chair  of  Latin  Literature  in  the  University 
of  Salamanca,  He  was  afterwards  appointed  to  the 
offices  of  Royal  Chaplain  and  official  historiographer', 
and  is  supposed  to  have  died  shortly  after  the  year  1533. 
He  wrote  a  number  of  historical  works*,  of  which  Gin- 
guene  says'  "qu'il  destinait  ses  recherches  plutot  a  plaire 
a  ses  protecteurs  qua  instruire  ses  lecteurs^"  We  do 
not  know  whom  Marineo  intended  to  please  in  writ- 
ing the  present,  but  it  is  worthy  of  notice  that  in  the 
chapter  Be  otras  yslas  apart adas  del  Hemispherio  llamadas 
Indias  (fol.  clxj),  he  calls  the  great  Genoese  navigator: 
^^  Pedro  Colon." 

Meusel  says''  of  this  work  :  Primo  opus  hocce  p«-odiit 
Compluci  1533.  fol.  (in  Latin,  for  we  mention,  supra, 
No.  159,  a  Spanish  edition  of  1530),  dein  Francofurti 
1579  in  Roberli  Belt  collectione,  simulque  separatim, 
tandemque  in  Andreae  Srhotti  Hispania  illustrata  T.  L 

We  were  in  hopes  that  Lucio  Marineo's  correspond- 
ence^ might  prove  as  interesting  as  Peter  Martyr's,  who 
was  his  personal  friend,  but  we  failed  to  find  in  it  any- 
thing relating  to  the  subject  before  us. 


Dirtct  rtferenccs :  (  BihUotheca  Ucberiana,  Part  V,  No.  1885. 
J  Brunet,  Vol.  Ill,  col.  1432. 
(  Graesse,  Vol.  IV,  page  400. 


''  Antonio,  BihUoih.  Hisp.  No-va,  Vol. 
11,  p.  369  (Appendix). 

"  TiRABOSCHI,  Storia  d,  Lett.  Ital.,  Vol. 
vn,  p.  1008,  sj. 

*  MojiG\TOKL,  Bibliot/ieca  Sicula}  Paler- 
mo, fol.,  1720-1,  Vol.  II. 

'  Hhtoire  Lit.  d'ltalie.  Vol.  VIII,  p.  361. 

'  Prescott's  opinion  is  much  more  favor- 
able. "  It  is,"  says  he,  •'  a  ritli  repository 
of  details  respecting  the   geography,  sta- 


tistics and  manners  of  the  Peninsula,  with 
a  copious  historical  notice  of  events  in 
Ferdinand  and  Isabella's  reign."  [Hiit. 
of  Ferdinand  and  luihella.  Vol.  11,  p. 
194,  n.) 

'  Bihliotheca  Historica,  Vol.  VI,  Part  1, 
p.  38. 

"  Epiitolarumfamiliarumlihri  xvil,o;a- 
lionei  et  carinitia ;  Vall.;dclid,  fol.,  I5I4- 
(Private  Libr.,  N.  Y.) 


1 


> 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 
2  27.    ANONYMOUS-  Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

LETTERA  DELA 


361 


1539- 


i^otU  oritta  nuouamctc  ritrouata  alle  Jn= 
die  conli  fuoi  coftumi  r  modi  del  fuo  Re 
X  foi  popoli.  II  Li  modi  del  fuo  adorare  con 
la  bella  vfanza  delle  donne  loro.H  Et  delle 
dua  perfone  Ermafrodite  donate  da  quel  |1 
Re  al  Capitano  della  Armata.  ||  ^  jj 

Then  small  woodcut,  followed  by  nineteen  lines  of  text. 

*  *  Sm,  4to,  sine  anno  aut  loco ;  two  unnumbered  leaves  printed 
in  Roman  characters.     No  water-mark. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

The  present  is  dated  "  xxx  di  Settembre  M  .  D  . 
XXXIX,"  and  unquestionably  an  original.  See,  supra, 
Nos,  191  and  206. 


228.    LORiTz  OR  GLAREANUS—'' Tit  gcographia  liber 
I.     Frib.  Brisg.  p.  J.  Fabrum  1539  in  4' 


(Graesse'.) 


"  Prima  ancor  di  Werdenkagen  e  del  Munstero  vegonsi  dal 
Glareano  decorati  col  comun  titolo  di  Condottieri  e  il  Colombo  e 
il  Vespucci  quae  regiones  ah  Hispanis  lustratae  sunt  Columbo  Gen- 
uensi  et  Americo  Vcsputio  nauigationis  Ducibus. 

"  Henr.  Glar.  Geogr.  an.  1539  p.  35.  Riflettono  gli  Avversarj  che 
al  dire  del  Glareano  (Rag.  p.  801  gli  'Ammiragli,  i  Capitani  di  mare, 
i  Condottieri  delf  imprese  furono  Spagnuoli ;  Colombo  e  Vespucci  non 
piit  che  Piloti  Acutissima  riflessione .'"  &c.,  &c. 

(Canovai'.) 


•   Trhar,  Vol.  iii,  p.  93. 


Vita,  p.  269,  and  nttt. 


46 


ifl.     PIHi^l      f_ll|ll|l|U 


262  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

ICTQ.  229.    API  ANUS-"  V&tn  Apiani  I  Cofmographia,  per 

===  Gemmam  ||  Phryfium,  apud  Louanienfes    Medicum  ac 

Mathema- 1  ticum  infignem,  reftituta.     Additis  de  adem 

re   ipfius  i  Gemms   Phry.    libellis,    vt   fequens   pagina 

docet.  II  Un  globe.  II  \  Vaeneunt  Antuerpiae  in  pingui  gal- 

lina  Arnoldo  Berckmano  .  i  •  5  •  3  •  9  ■ '  ^  ^^  M-  H  Ab- 

folutum  Antuerpie  per  Aegidium  Coppenium,  icura  & 

impenfis  Arnold!  Berckman,  i  Anno  Chriftiano,  i539'"ll* 

4°  61.  fc,  I  fnc.  Fig.  Rom. 

(Tromel*.) 

Tromel  erroneously  considers  this  edition  as  the  first 
containing  Gemma  Frisius'  annotations.  (See,  supra, 
page        for  an  edition  of  1533.) 


1540. 


2  70.    APIANUS-GEMMA  FRISIUS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 
^    PETRI      APIANI   II    COSMOGRAPHIA, 

PER  GEMMAM  |1  Phryfium,  apud  Louanienfes 
Medicum  ac  Mathematicarum  ||  infignem, 
Denuo  reftituta.  Additis  de  eadem  re 
ipfius  II  Gemmae  Phry.  libellis,  quos  fequens 
pagina  docet.  || 

Then  globe,  and  below : 

M  .  D  .  XL  .  II  Vaeneunt    Antuerpiae    in 
pingin  gallina  Arnoldo  Berkmano.  I| 

»  AngUci:  Cosmography  of  Peter  Apian  For  sale  in  Antwerp,  at  the  sign  of  the 

restored  by  Gemma  Frisius,   phvsician  at  Fat  Hen,  by  Arnold  Berckman. 

Louvain,  and  a  distinguishea  mathemati-  Finished  at  Antwerp  by  Eg.dms  Coppen, 

cian,  together  with  the   treatises    on    the  by  the  care  and  at  the  expense  ot  Arnold 

«ame  subject  by  Gemma  Frisius  himself,  Berckman,  A.  D.  1539. 

u  will  be  seen  in  the  following  pages.  '  Biblhthiquc  Amincaine,  No.  II. 


■    ' 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  2^3 

Colophon:  1 54^* 

Excufum  Antuerpia  opera  Aegidij  Copenij.  ||  Anno  a  Chrifto  ^=== 
nato  .  I  5  4  0  .  II 

*  *  4to;  title  one  leaf+  two  unnumbered  leaves  +  folios  num- 
bered from  nil  to  lxi,  followed  by  one  unnumbered  leaf, 
with  vignette  or  printer's  mark  on  veno ,-  revolving  diagrams ; 
no  map  in  the  present  copy. 

(Private  Library,  New  Vorlc.) 

"  C'est  d'apres  I'edition  de  1540  qu'a  ete  faite  la  traduction  Fran- 

^aise  linfra}." 

(Brunet') 

Direct  refcrencei:  f  Clement  Bibliolh'eque  Curieuu,Vol.  i,  page  405,  in  a  note  correct- 
ing Hendreich  (.afuJ  Pandectae  Branderburgicac,  page  210). 
Graesse,  Vol.  I,  page  159  (  ?  )■ 
'  ManutI,  Vol.  i,  col.  342. 

2  Q  I .    PTOLEMY— MUNSTER— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

GEOGRAPHIA  1|  vniversalis,  vetvs  et 

NOVA,  II  COMPLECTENS  ||    CLAVDII      PTO/  1| 
LEMAEI    ALEXANDRINI    ENARRATIO/  ||  NIS  LIBROS 

VIII.  II  Quorum  primus  noua  tranflatione 
Pirckheimeri  et  1|  acceffione  commentarioli 
illuftrior  quam  hade  ||  nus  fuerit,  redditus 
eft.  II  Reliqui  cum  graeco  &  alijs.  uetuftis 
exeplaribus  col/  ||  lati,  in  infinitis  fere  locis 
caftigatiores  fadi  funt.  ||  Addita  funt  in- 
fuper  Scholia,  quibus  exoleta  urbium  || 
montium,  fluuiorumc^  nomina  ad  noftri 
fecuU  mo/ 11  rem  exponuntur.  ||  Succedunt 
tabulae  Ptolemaic^,  opera  Sebaftiani  MunH 
fteri  nouo  paratae  modo  ||  His  adiedae  funt 
plurim^   nouae   tabulae,   moderna   or/  |1  bis 


^'t'V^gWW^ 


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■  V'lMl' 


064  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1 540.  faciem  Uteris  &  piftura  explicantes,  inter 

quas  II  quaedam    antehac    Ptolemseo    non 

fuerunt  additae.  ||  Vltimo  annexum  eft  com- 
pendium geographic^  de/  ||  fcriptionis,  in 
quo  uarij  gentium  &  regionum  ni\\  tus  & 
mores  explicantur.  ||  Pr^fixus  eftquocp  uni- 
uerfo  operi  index  memorabiliu  ||  populo- 
rum,  ciuitatum,  fluuiorum,  montium,  ter-l| 
rarum,  lacuum  &c.  1| 

BASILEAE,  APVD   HENRICVM  PETRVMJl 
MENSE  MARTIO  ANNO  ||  M  .  D  .XL.  || 

♦  *  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  nine  preliminary  leaves,  including  six 
for  the  index  ;  +  seventeen  unnumbered  leaves  +  one  blank, 
4.  one  hundred  and  fifty-four  pages  of  text,  and  forty-eiyht 
maps,  filling  two  leaves  each,  with  descriptions  on  the  reverse ; 
then  an  appendix  (sometimes  placed  before  the  maps),  num- 
bering from  157  to  195.  The  first  map  is  a  mappamund, 
with  the  word  America;  the  forty-fifth,  viz.:  novae  insvlae, 
bears  the  following  inscription  on  the  southern  portion  of  our 
continent :  "  Insula  Atlatica  quam  uocant  Brasilij  &  Ameri- 
cam'."     The  description  is  on  the  reverse. 

(Private  Library.  New  York.) 

"  Son  edition  de  Ptolemee  [/.  e.,  Sebastian  Munster's],  cinq  fois 
imprimee,  1540,  1541,  1541,  1545.  1552,  servit  de  modele  a  la  nou- 
velle  formation  [/.  e.,  modernized  representation  o^"  Fii-lemy's  inhabit- 
able world  :  nova  et  quam  ante  fuit,  uerior  Europa  formatio\  pour  les 
autrcs  geographes  a  I'etranger." 

(Lelewell'.) 


Direct  rtferencei  , 


Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  v,  No.  5398. 
Bibliotheca  Barlowiana,  pi%e  15. 
Hoffmann,  Lexicon,  Vol.  iii,  page  319. 
Gkaesse,  Vol.  V,  page  501. 


'  /l/j/iofffaCo/omA/ana, No.  7,  states  that     graphic    universalis    de   Munster  .  Basilii 
•'La  misma  [map]  in  la  edicion  de  Hen-     1550  fol." 
ricus  Petrus  Basiliae  1545  i  en  la  Cosmo-         "  Giogr.  du  Moyen-jige,  Vol.  11,  p.  176. 


I 
I 


' 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  365 

2 '^2.    ANONYMOUS— Recto  of  the  last  leaf :  \  ^^0» 

(?r|)tiftopl)oru!ES  (STattcra  IJursenfifii  ati  Icctorem  ||  — = 
lacri  taptifmi  miniftru.   (Bicolon  Jraltirljon.  || 
^i  pann  pnoffe  cup^  ueneratii  facertios : 
Vt  taptimri  quiUtct  JuTrug  i)ai)ct :  .  .  .  .  etc. 

Then  a  long  list  of  errata,  and  : 

Jmprimiofc  eftc  liiianual  tie  auultos  en  lallgra 
cittljatJ  U  ittcxico  pot  matiatio  li  los  ||  McucretJiffi= 
mos  fcfiotcs  otifpos  )i  la  «ueua  ||  iSspana  g  a  fus 
eipefas :  t\\  cafa  tie  Itua  ||  Otromijcrger.  Eno  lil 
uarimicto  ^  nurftro  fcftor  II  itiM  €\)X\iXis  ^  mill  g 
quinictos  ij  (luarcta.na  xii|  tiiaslil  mes^  UPencbrcll 

*  *  This  work  exists  only  in  fragments. 
*  (Private  Library,  Madrid.) 

The  precise  date  of  the  introduction  of  printing  in 
America  is,  as  in  almost  every  country,  a  question  which 
still  perplexes  the  historian  of  the  art.  We  do  not  pre- 
tend to  be  able  to  solve  it  to  the  satisfaction  of  every 
critic ;  but  thanks  to  the  data  kindly  furnished  us  by 
Senor  Don  Joaquin  Garcia  Icazbalceta,  of  the  city  of 
Mexico,  whom  we  consider  the  highest  authority  on 
such  matters,  we  are  enabled  to  set  forth  an  elaborate 
statement  of  the  facts  which,  thus  far,  afford  the  only 
plausible  arguments  in  the  case. 

On  one  point  bibliographers  agree,  viz. :  the  city  of 
Mexico  is  entitled  to  the  honor  of  having  printed  the 
first  book  on  the  American  continent.  But  who  was 
the  first  printer  ?  What  was  the  first  book  printed  ? 
What  is  the  precise  date  when  it  was  first  issued?  In 
the  absence  of  original  proofs,  the  reader  must  deduce  an 
answer  to  these  queries  from  the  following  authorities  : 

The  earliest  and  most  trustworthy  author  who  men- 
tions the  subject  is  Fray  Augustin  Davila  Padilla,  who 
says'  that  Fray  Juan  de  Estrada : 


•  UiU.  dt  lafvndachn  dt  la  Provincia  de  Mexico}  Bruxelles,  fol.,  1625,  p.  54a. 


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I  CAO.  "Eilando  en  cafa  de  Nouicios  hizo  una  cofa,  que  por  la  primera 
•^^  que  i"e  hizo  en  efta  tierra  baftaua  para  dark  memoria,  quando  el  autor 
'  no  la  tuuiera,  como  la  tiene  ganada,  por  auer  fido  quien  fue.  El 
primer  libro  que  en  efte  nueuo  mundo  le  elcriuio,  y  la  pnmera  cola 
en  que  'e  exercito  la  emprenta  en  elU  tierra,  fue  obra  iuya.  Daua- 
felcs  a  ,>)3  nouicios  vn  libro  de  S.  luan  Climaco,  y  como  no  los 
aula  en  romance  mandaronle  que  lo  traduxefle  de  Latin.  Hizolo  alli 
con  prefteza  y  elegancia,  por  fer  muy  buen  Latino  y  Romancirta,  y  ue 
lu  libro  el  primero  que  le  imprimio  por  Juan  Pablos,  primer  imprelor 
que  a  efta  tierra  vino.  Bien  le  mueftra  la  deuocion  de  fanto  Domingo 
de  Mexico,  en  que  vn  hijo  fuyo  haya  fido  el  primeo  que  en  efte  mundo 
nueuo  imprimiefl'e,  y  cofa  tan  deuota  como  la  ekalera  Ipual  de  S. 
lua  Climaco." 

From  this  authority  we  gather  only  two  facts,  viz. : 
Th^  EscaIaEspiri(ualv/as  the  first  book  printed  in  Mexico, 
and  Juan  Pablos  was  the  first  printer  who  exercised  his 
art  in  that  city.  The  date  must  be  borrowed  from 
another  author. 

Alonso  Fernandez  states^  that : 

•'  Efte  padre  [Juan  de  Eftrada]  imprimio  la  traducion  que  hizo  de 
f.  luan  Climaco,  muy  prouechofa  para  gente  que  trata  de  devocion 
y  efpiritu.  Efte  fue  el  primero  libro  que  fe  imprim^io  en  Mexico,  y 
fue  ano  de  mil  y  quinientos  y  treinta  y  cinco  [i535]-" 

Fernandez  agrees  with  Davila  Padilla,  but  he  omits 
the  name  of  the  printer,  while  he  gives  a  date. 

We  then  find  Gil  Gonzales  Davila,  the  official  chron- 
icler of  the  Indies,  who  says'  that: 

"  En  el  ano  de  mil  y  quinientos  y  treinta  y  dos  [1532]  el  virey  Do 
Antonio  de  Mendo9a  lleuo  la  Imprenta  a  Mexico.  El  primer  Im- 
prellbr  fue  luan  Pablos  ;  Y  el  primer  libro  que  fe  imprimio  en  el 
Nuevo  Mundo  fue  el   que  efcrivo  San  Juan  Climaco  con  titulo  de 

ESCALA  ESPIRITUAL  PARA  LI.ECAR  Al.  CIELO,  TRADOCIDO  DE  LATIN  EN 
CASIELLANO  POR  EL  VENERABLE  PADRE  FR.  JUAN  DE  LA  MADALENA  , 
REGIOSO    DOMINICO." 


'  Historia  Ecleiiaslica  de  nfeslros  liemfos; 
Toledo,  fol.,  1611,  p.  12a. 

'  Tealro  Eilesiastico  de  la  primit'fva 
IgUsia  de  las  Indias  Occiden/a/es ;  Madrid, 
fol.,  1649-55,  Vol.  I,  p.  23. 

*  "  Juan  de  la  Magdalena"  w.-is  the 
cloister  name  of  Juan  de  Estrada,  called 
by  Fernandez    "  hijo   legitimo  del  Vir- 


rey  {Hist.,  p.  122)."  He  is  supposed 
to  have  been  a  native  of  Mexico,  and  to 
have  died  in  1579,  says  Antonio  (Bii- 
lioih.  Hisp.  Nova,  Vol.  i,  p.  686),  on 
the  authority  of  Davila  Padilla,  he.  cit., 
lib.  II,  cap.  Lvii.  If  so,  the  latter  his- 
torian, who  was  born  in  1562,  and  joined 
the  order  of  the  Dominicans,  in  Mexico, 


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The  only  discrepancy  between  this  statement  and  the    1 54^* 

two  preceding,  is  in  the  date,  which  is  certainly  errone- 

ously  given  by  Gil  Gonzales  Davila,  as  the  Viceroy 
Mendoza  did  not  come  to  Mexico  until  the  middle  of 
October  1535^ 

We  then  ifind  an  official  document,  lately  discovered, 
which  seems  to  counterbalance  the  claims  of  Pablos  to 
the  credit  of  having  exercised  his  profession  in  Mexico 
as  early  as  1536,  in  any  other  capacity  than  that  of  jour- 
neyman printer  or  agent.  It  is  a  privilege  dated  Octo- 
ber nth,  1554,  granting  in  the  name  of  the  Viceroy 
Luis  de  Velasco,  to  Juan  Pablos,  the  exclusive  right  for 
eight  years  to  carry  on  a  printing  establishment  in  New 
Spain^  This  document  mentions  another  privilege 
granted  by  the  king  to  Juan  Pablos  for  six  years,  and 
extended  by  the  viceroy  to  four  more,  which  last  four 
years  were  then  approaching  their  termination.  That 
is,  ten  years  in  all,  carrying  us  back  to  1544,  as  the  date 
when  Pablos  was  first  authorized  to  print.  We  should 
also  notice  that  it  was  not  until  1556  that  he  assumed 
the  title  of  "primer  impresor  en  esta  grande,  insigne y  muy 
leal  ciudad  de  Mexico'." 

Until  some  fortunate  bibliophile  succeeds  in  discover- 
ing a  printed,  dated  and  imprinted  Mexican  copy  of  the 
Escala  espiritual,  we  must  remain  in  doubt  as  to  the  date 
and  name  of  the  printer.  Such  a  discovery  has  not  yet 
been  made.  No  bibliographer  either  in  Europe  or  in 
America  has  seen  the  book,  and  no  author  mentions  it 


Nov.,  1579,  may  have  known  de  Estrada 
personally;  which  circumstance  would  in- 
crease the  weight  of  his  assertions. 

*  It  must  be  said,  however,  that  the 
enact  date  of  the  arrival  of  Mendoza  is 
yet  a  matter  of  discussion.  Notwith- 
standing the  authority  of  Fr.  Baltazar  de 
Medina,*  who  gives  the  date  of  Auijust 
15th,  1535,  the  journal  of  the  sessions  of 


*  Crinica  it  la  Prtviniia  dt  San  Ditgc  dt 
Mixkt  di  RiUghim  dmal'x.iii  dt  N.  P.  S.  Fran- 
iiiitj  Mexico,  fol.,  1&81,  p.  ZJ}. 


the  Municipality  of  the  city  of  Mexico 
(MS.)  shows  that  on  the  13th  of  October, 
measures  were  adopted  to  give  a  public 
reception  to  the  vicc-roy,  and  that,  on  the 
17th.  the  circumstance  is  mentioned  as 
having  taken  place. 

*  It  should  be  noticed  that,  notwith- 
standing this  privilege,  Anti)nio  Espinosa 
printed  in  Mexico  before  the  expiration  of 
the  eight  years. 

'  In  the  colophon  to  Constituciones  del 
araobispada  dr  Mexico;  Mexico,  fol.  1 5 56. 
(Private  Libr.,  Mexico.) 


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I  C40.    de  visa.     It  is  even  doubtful  whether  future  inquirers 
-^  will  be  more  successful.     As  the  edition  was  made  exclu- 

sively for  the  novices  of  the  convent  of  St.  Dominick, 
few  copies  must  have  been  printed.  These,  being  dis- 
tributed among  students  and  even  children,  their  de- 
struction could  but  be  rapid ;  and  this  is  the  reason,  we 
suppose,  why  no  copy  has  come  down  to  us.  The  con- 
sequence is  that  some  bibliographers  deny  that  the  book 
was  e'^er  printed  at  all  in  Mexico;  and  they  find  an 
additional  argument  in  the  dedication*  affixed  to  the 
translation  of  the  work  made  by  Luis  de  Granada.''  This 
translator  says,  after  stating  that  there  were  already  two 
translations  : 

•«  De  las  cuales  traslaciones,  la  una  es  tambien  antigua,  y  tan  anti- 
gua,  que  apenas  se  entiende,  y  la  otra,  es  muy  nueva,  hecha  por  algun 
aragones  6  valenciano,  la  cual  no  es  menos  oscura  y  dificil  que  ia 
pasada,  asi  por  la  dificultad  del  libro,  como  por  muchos  vocablos  que 
tiene  peregrinos  y  estrangeros,  como  bahorrina,  soUdumbre,  :nrabablt 
y  otros  tales." 

This  "  new"  translation  made  by  an  Arragonese  is 
wholly  unknown  to  us.  The  other  "very  old"  is  the 
anonymous  version  executed  by  command  of  the  famous 
Archbishop  of  Toledo,  Ximenes  de  Cisneros'°.  No 
mention  is  made  of  Juan  de  Estrada's  translation  in  this 
dedication ;  from  which  certain  critics  infer  that  it  never 


*  To  Dona  Catalina,  J^ueen  of  Portugal, 
and  wife  of  John  III. 

•  Gkaisse  mentions  editions  of  Sala- 
manca, 15-1,  Valladolid,  1583,  and  Mad- 
rid, 1611,  all  8vo,  and  "une  rcimpression 
(trad,  de  Gnr^o  en  Casiel/ano  por  un 
religios'j  de  la  or  Jen  de  S.  Domingo),  Lisboa, 
156;,  8vo.'"  The  latter  is  very  I'robahly 
the  original  edition  of  Luis  de  Granada's 
translation,  who  then  lived  in  Portugal, 
(PrLLicEB,  Enayo  de  una  Bib/iot..  p.  131). 
Senor  Icazbalccta  knows  of  a  Salamanca 
edition  of  1563,  by  Andrea  de  Portono- 
tariis,  8vo,  which,  however,  is  not  thf; 
frincefs.  as  the  privilege  mentions  a  pre- 
vious edition. 

'•  Obrat  de  S.  J'-tan  Climaco,  tradux.  en 
Cattellano  por  mandado  del  Card.  Fr.  Xi- 


menes de  Cisnerosi  Toledo,  fol.,  1 504.  It  b 
"  a  luxurious  folio  of  a  hundred  leaves," 
says  Mr.  Ticknor,  who  possesses  a  copy 
of  this  rare  edition  (Hiit.  Span.  Lit ,  VoL 
III,  p.  160,  n.)  This  Celestial  Ladder,initi 
original  form,  is  a  kind  of  ascetic  treatise, 
written  by  Johannes,  frequently  called 
Climacus  (from  the  title  of  this  work), 
Scholasticus  (from  his  rapid  progress  in  the 
sciences),  and  Sinaira  (from  his  hennitaje 
at  the  foot  of  the  Sinai).  He  was  a  natiTc 
of  Palestine,  born  about  525.  and  who 
died  in  605.  The  Climax  or  Ladder  »f 
Hea-ven,  derives  its  name  from  the  idea  ot 
tlie  author  that  there  are  thirty  steps  or 
rounds  to  lead  the  soul  to  perfection.  It 
was  originally  written  in  Greek,  and  in 
the  aphoristic  form. 


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existed,  deeming  it  an  impossibility  that  Luis  de  Gra-    1 540. 

nada  should  not  have  known  the  work,  as  he  was  a  con 

temporary  of  Juan  de  Estrada,  and  belonged  to  the  same 
monastic  order.  To  which  it  may  be  said  in  reply  that 
the  translation  was  made  for  immediate  use,  privately 
printed,  intended  exclusively  for  the  inmates  of  a  con- 
vent, and  that  Luis  de  Granada  may  not  have  heard  of 
a  publication  of  this  character,  undertaken  at  a  distance 
of  five  thousand  miles. 

But  to  deny  the  existence  of  the  Escala^  we  must 
reject  the  testimony  of  Davila  Padilla,  which  course  is 
fraught  with  difficulties.     Davila  Padilla  was  a  Mexican 
by  birth"  who  knew  the  familv  of  Juan  de  Estrada,  if 
not  Estrada  himself,  and  belonged  to  the  same  congre- 
gation.    To  write  his  History,   he  had   access   to   the 
archives  and  chronicles  kept  by  the  Dominicans,  and 
may  have  gathered  direct  information  from  some  of  the 
friars  who  knew  de  Estrada  personally.     He  was  a  man 
of  the  highest  character,  who  received   in   1 599,  from 
Philip  in,  the  appointment  of  archbishop  of  Santo  Do- 
mingo.    What  interest  could  such  a  distinguished  pre- 
late have  in  disguising  the  truth,  or  in  asserting  that  a 
certain  book  had  been  printed,  if  he  did  not  believe  that 
such  was  actually  the  case  ?     We  therefore  repeat,  after 
Senor  Icazbalceta,  that  "  on  doit  regarder  comme  par- 
faltement  etabli  que  VEscala  a  et6  le  premier  hvre  im- 
prime   a    Mexico,    quoiqu'il    ne    soit   pas    improbable 
qu'avant  on  y  ait  imprime  des  syllabaires  ou  d'autres 
feuilles  detachees,  comme  on  I'a  avance,  sans  en  donner 
(cela  soit  dit  en  passant)  des  preuves  suffisantes  a  I'appui. 
But  what   is   the  precise  date  when   the  Escala  was 

printed  in  Mexico  ?  _        .     .   .      , 

Davila  Padilla  states"  that  Juan  de  Estrada  joined 

the  Dominican   order  in  1535,  and   that  he  made  his 

translation   while  yet  a   novice.     Considering  that  his 

•>  Born  in  the  city  of  Mexico  in  1562,  Scriftor    ord.    Pr^dU.     \o\     ".    P-    S?'- 

died   in   1604.     See  concerning   DaviU  y  The  noucc  in  Astos,o  (B,bl.  Hnf.  No-va, 

Padilla,  Gonzales  Dav.la,   m^t.  tcdn.  Vol.  i.  p.  35')  is  e«remely  meager. 
dc  lai  Indias,  Vol.  i,  p.  789,  and  Echard,         "  /«  cit.,  p.  668. 

47 


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1540. 


novitiate  lasted  a  year,  that  the  work  had  been  under- 
,,  taken,  not  as  a  literary  effort,  but  simply  to  supply  an 
immediate  want,  and  that  in  consequence  the  trans- 
lation was  probably  printed  soon  after  being  written, 
we  may  affix  the  date  of  1536. 

This  date  agrees  prefectly  with  that  of  the  introduc- 
tion of  printing  in  Mexico.  Brought  over  by  Men- 
doza,  it  must  have  reached  Vera-Cruz  at  the  same  time; 
and  if  we  calculate  the  time  for  the  journey  to  the  city 
of  Mexico  and  the  organization  of  the  printing  office,  we 
find  that  1536  is  a  date  which  tallies  with  the  time  when 
Estrada  had  finished  his  translation. 

But  who  was  the  first  printer  in  Mexico?  Juan 
Pablos  is  usually  considered  as  being  entitled  to  the 
honor ;  but  we  will  endeavor  to  show  that  he  does  not 
stand  first  on  the  list. 

As  the  Escala  is  not  to  be  found,  no  one  can  say  that 
it  bears  the  imprint  of  Juan  Pablos.  Senor  Icazbalceta 
is  of  opinion,  that  if  a  copy  is  ever  discovered  it  will  be 
seen  that  it  is  either  anonymous  or  under  the  name  of 
Juan  Cromberger.  We  describe,  infra,  all  the  books 
now  in  existence  and  known,  printed  in  Mexico  before 
1600.  The  earliest  is  the  present  No.  232,  and  this, 
together  with  those  which  follow  to  1544,  has  the  im- 
print of  Cromberger.  The  last  of  these"  contains  in 
the  colophon  the  following  words:  "que  Dios  haya" 
which  indicate  that  the  printer  was  already  dead ;  and 
the  fact  is  that  his  name  does  not  appear  after  this'*. 
The  publications  which  follow  do  not  bear  any  imprint, 
and  it  is  only  in  a  work  printed  January  17th,  1548", 


"  Doclrina  xpiana  .  .  .  comfuesta  per  Pe- 
dro de  Cordoua  ,•  Mexico,  4to,  1 544  {infra). 

"  We  must  confess  that  the  mention 
of  a  Doctrina  breve  de  lai  cosas  que  fer- 
tenecen  a  la  fe  catolica,  bearing  the  imprint 
of  Juan  Cromberger,  and  the  date  of  1547 
lapud  G.  BruNIT,  Dklionnaire  de  Bibliologie 
Cathotique,  col.  941,  n.  I  58).  na^rgered  us ; 
but  by  referring  to  the  authority  quoted  by 
M.   Brunct   {Bulletin   du    bibliophile,    14c 


serie,  1859,  p.  153,  i.e.,  pp.  183-188), 
we  found  that  the  work  described  by  IVI. 
Desbarriaux-Bernard  was  only  the  Doc- 
trina of  Bishop  Zummaraga.  which  bears, 
indeed,  the  imprint  of  Cromberger,  but  the 
date  of  "  M.dxliij."  on  the  title-page,  and 
"  M.d.quarenta  qtro  aiios"  [1544]  '"  '^e 
colophon.  This  edition  we  describe  infra. 
"  A  Doctrina.  in  Spanish  and  Mexican 
infra),  which  exists  only  in  fragments. 


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in 
(I 


that  the  name  of  Juan  Pablos  is  given  for  the  first  time.    I  54^« 

Others  may  yet  be  found  with  an  earlier  date;   but  in  — 

a  disquisition  like  the  present  we  must  limit  ourselves 
to  the  documents  before  us.  We  have  shown  that  it 
was  only  in  1556  that  Pablos  took  the  title  of  "  First 
Printer,"  and  that  1544  is  the  earliest  date  when  he  was 
first  entitled  to  it.  Cromberger  died  before  1544,  and 
we  infer  that  Pablos  succeeded  him,  but  are  inclined  to 
think  that  no  work  printed  by  the  latter  under  his  own 
name  will   be   found  bearing  an   earlier  imprint    than 

1 544. 

But  how  can  we  account  for  the  title  of  "  Primer  im- 
presor  en  est  a  ciudad  de  Mexico,''  assumed  by  Pablos  ? 

The  word  Primer,  may  mean  first  in  point  of  talent 
or  position,  and  we  have  abundant  proofs  that  the  early 
printers  were  not  over  modest.  But  if  it  does  mean 
first  in  the  order  of  dates,  the  following  explanation, 
which  we  borrow  from  Sefior  Icazbalceta,  will  prove 
satisfactory : 

"Jean  Cromberger  etait  un  imprimeur  celebre  etabli  a  Seville  long- 
temps  avant  que  le  vice-roi  Mendoza  vint  s'y  embarquer  pour  la  Nou- 
velle-Espagne.  Soit  que  le  vice-roi  ait  passe  un  marche  avec  I'impri- 
meur,  soit  que  celui-ci  ait  pris  I'afFaire  pour  son  propre  compte, 
toujours  est-il  que  Timprimeric  vint  avec  le  vice-roi.  II  n'est  pas  a 
supposer,  cependant,  que  Cromberger  eut  quitte  un  etablissement 
florissant  dans  une  si  riche  ville,  pour  aller  s'exposer  aux  dangers  d'un 
voyage  lointain  dans  des  contrees  non  encore  bien  connues  ou  paci- 
fiees.  Nous  savons  du  reste,  qu'il  ne  le  fit  pas.  Ga  maison  a  con- 
tinue d'exister  sous  son  nom  a  Seville  jusqu'en  15+6,  au  moins ;  d'ou 
il  resulte  qu'il  possedait  en  meme  temps  deux  imprimeries,  une  a 
Seville  et  I'autre  a  Mexico.  Tout  porte  a  croire  que  Juan  Pablos 
etait  un  des  ouvriers,  peut  etre  le  chef  d'atelier  ou  prote,  de  Crom- 
berger et  que  celui-ci  lui  a  donne  le  materiel  necessaire  pour  venir 
fonder  un  nouvel  etablissement  a  Mexico,  en  lui  accordant  un  traite- 
ment  fixe  ou  une  part  dans  les  benifices.  Notre  imprimerie  n'etait 
done  qu'une  succursale  de  celle  de  Seville.  C'est  un  arrangement 
que  de  nos  jours  on  fait  encore  assez  souvent.  Mais  comme  I'impri- 
merie  mexicaine  appartenait  reellement  a  Cromberger,  Pablos  etait 
bien  oblige  de  mettre  le  nom  du  proprietaire  et  non  pas  le  sien,  sur 
les  Hvres  qu'il  imprimait.  Cela  n'empechait  pas  les  habitants  de  la 
ville,  qui  tous  connaissaient  et  voyaient  Pablos,  sans  etre  a  meme  de 
savoir  ses  rapports  avec  Cromberger,  de  le  regarder  comme   le  pre- 


>,j2  Ribliotheca  Jmericatia. 

I  C4.0.     mier  imprimeur,  et  il  I'etait  en  effet,  auoique  ce  ne  fut  pas  pour  son 
-^^  proprc  compte,  mais  comme  employe  de  Crombcrger.     Davila  I  adilla 

lie  pouvait  pas  plus  (aire  cettc  distinction,  ct  il  ne  I'aura  pas  trouvee 
dans  Ics  ecrits  dont  il  s'est  servi  pour  composer  son  Histoire. 

Au  commencement  de  1 541,  Cromhcrgcr  etait  deja  mort ;  ct  mcmc 
d'aprcs  Brunei"  le  nom  de  Jean  Crombcrger  est  accompagne  des  mots 
que  Dios  perdone  dans  la  souscription  du  Palmerin  de  Oliva,  imprime 
en  I  540.  La  nouvclle  de  son  deccs  aura  du  arriver  a  Mexico  vers  la 
fin  de  1541,  car  Ics  communications  n'etaient  ni  facilcs  ni  trequentes. 
Jean  Pablos  resolut  alors  de  sa  rendre  acquereur  de  retablissement 
qu'il  t-'"»'t-  I'oi"'  y  parvenir  il  devait  s'entendrc  avec  les  hcritiers 
de  Crombcrger;  et  il  n'y  a  pas  lieu  de  s'etonner  qu'il  leur  ait  lallu  a 
peu  prcs  trois  ans  pour  arriver  a  se  mettrc  d'accord.  L'affairc  ne  hit 
reglee  qu'en  1544;  le  nom  de  Crombcrger  disparut  alors  pour  taire 
place  a  celui  du  nouvel  acquereur  Jean  Pablos  qui  songea  aussitot  a  se 
niunir  du  privilege  qui  lui  fut  accorde  la  ineme  annee." 

After  Juan  Pablos,  we  find  several  other  printers; 
but  there  seems  to  have  been  only  seven  of  them  from 
the  introduction  of  printing  to  the  close  of  the  sixteenth 
century,  viz.:  Juan  Cromberger,  Juan  Pablos,  Antonio 
Espinosa,  Pedro  Ocharte,  Pedro  Balli,  Antonio  Ricardo 
and  Melchior  Ocharte.  Among  these,  Espinosa,  or  de 
Spinosa,  is  the  only  one  who  displayed  a  printer's  mark. 
This  contained  the  motto:  Virtus  in  infirmitate  perficitur. 
Antonio  Ricardo  removed  to  Lima  where  he  was  the  first 
printer.  In  a  work  printed  by  him  in  1596'^  he  states 
that  he  was  born  in  Turin,  and  as  Juan  Pablos  was  a 
native  of  Brescia,  in  Lombardy,  two  Italians  are  entitled 
to  the  credit  of  having  introduced  the  art  of  printing  on 
this  continent.  The  names  of  these  two  printers  were 
probably  in  their  mother-tongue,  Giovanni  Paoli  and 
Antonio  Ricciardi. 

We  do  not  think  that  the  number  of  works  printed 
in  America  in  the  sixteenth  century,  the  existence  of 
which  is  well  authenticated,  at  the  present  date,  ex- 
ceeds one  hundred.  We  give,  infruy  a  list  composed 
of  all  those  which  have  come  to  the  notice  of  Senor 
Icazbalceta,  and  to  our  own.    Additions  will  certainly  be 

'•  Manuel.  Vol.  iv,  col.  330.  AoiA,    Tratado  y  parecer  sobre  el  servicit 

"  -PtDBO    DE    OfJA's    Primer,,  fjrte   de     personal    de    lot    liidiot  del    Peru  j      Lima 
Araucj  di,maJo  (infra),  an  1  in  Miguel   i)t     t'ol.  1604. 


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made  in  the  course  of  time,  although  the  ransacking  of    I  54O. 

the  Mexican  convents,  under  the  enlightened  guidance 

of  the  present  Secretary  of  State  for  Mexico,  whose 
library  may  be  said  to  represent  the  bibliographical 
treasures  of  that  country,  has  not  brought  to  light,  as 
far  as  known,  as  many  curiosities  of  this  character  as 
were  expected. 

These  early  works  are  chiefly  of  th-^  kind  intended 
for  the  religious  education  of  the  Indians,  and  written 
either  in  Spanish  or  in  the  native  dialects,  together  with 
grammars  and  vocabularies  to  learn  the  same.  There 
is  also  a  sprinkling  of  theological  treatises  and  rituals 
for  monkish  use.  They  are  printed  either  in  Gothic, 
Italic,  or  Roman  characters,  displaying  occasionally  a 
few  rudely  executed  woodcuts.  We  find  among  them 
all  the  forms,  from  the  folio  to  the  octavo;  but,  as 
was  then  the  custom  in  Spain,  of  a  si/e  smaller  than 
elsewhere.  The  binding  is  usually  plain  vellum  wrap- 
pers ;  and  as  to  the  condition  of  the  books,  we  doubt 
whether  there  is  a  single  copy  which  is  not  torn,  incom- 
plete, soiled,  stained  or  worm-eaten. 

Leaving  aside  all  theories  and  assertions  concerning 
the  existence  of  a  printing  establishment  in  Mexico  as 
•early  as  1536,  our  list  wiil  evince  a  fact  which  must 
remain  above  all  cavils  and  objections.  It  is  that  the 
earliest  book  printed  in  America,  as  far  as  known  at 
the  present  time,  is  not,  "beyond  a  doubt,  the  Doc- 
trina  Christiami  of  1544","  nor  the  Focahulario  of  Mo- 
lina, dated  1571'^  nor  the  Ordinationti  icgumque^  collec- 
tiones",  which  never  existed  (at  least  with  a  Latin  title 
and  under  the  date  of  1549),  but  the  present  Animal 
de  Adultos,  which  bears  the  date  of  December  13th, 
1540,  and  the  imprint  of  Juan  Cromberger. 


"  Rich,  Bibl.  Amer.  yetus,  p.  5,  No.  14. 

"  The  remark  of  Ternaux  ( lli/'!. 
Amiric,  p.  13)  that  Thomas  considers 
Molina's  yocahulario  as  the  first  book 
printed  in  Mexico,  is  incorrect.  Thomas 
only  says,  after  mentioning  a  work  pub- 
lished in  New  Spain  in  1604,  "there  can 
be  but  little  doubt  that  Printing  was  intro- 


duced there  some  years  before  that  period." 
Hist,  of  Printing  in  America,  Vol.  I,  p.  194. 
■"  EouiAKA,  liihlioth.  Mexictina,[>.  211, 
copied  the  title  from  Pinei.o-Barcia.  col. 
827,  and  found  himself  followers  in  Cot- 
ton, Typographical  Gazetteer  ;  'Oxford, 
8vo,  1831,  p.  172,  and  Falkenstein, 
GescAicAte  dcr  BucAdruck.,  p.  329. 


"•«igi 


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Bibliotheca  Americana. 

A  Lisr  or  WORKS  prin  ikd  i\  amkrica  bktween  the  vears 
1540  AND    1600  ; 

WHICH  have  COMK    to  THE  Pf.KSON/lL  NOTICE  OF 

seRor  icazbai.ceta  or  ok  our  own. 


1540. 
I54I. 

•543 
•544 


1546. 

1547- 
1548. 

1549- 

1550. 

«553' 
>554. 


•555' 
1556 


«557. 
1558, 

»559 


1560. 
1561 


Manual  de  yldultos  (present  No.  232). 

Relacion  del  espantahle  lerremoto  de  Guatemala  [infra). 

■Doclrina  cr'ntiana  (infra). 

Trifartito  de  Juan  Gerson  (infra). 

De  Ir.  mantra  de  como  se  han  de  hacer  las  frocesiones  (infra). 

Same  work  ;  sine  anno  (infra). 

PE  Cordova,  Dutrina  crisliar.a  (infra). 
— Doctrina  cristiana  (infra). 
— Regla  crisliana  (infra). 
— Ordenanzas  de  Ani'.nio  de  Mendeza  (infra). 

Doctrina  en  castellano  y  mexicana  (infra). 
F.  Bravo  ue  Orsuna,  Opera  Medicinatia  j  Mcx.,  410  [infra.    We  doubt  the  cor- 
rectness oftlis  d.ite,  altliDuyh  it  is  certainly  so  printed  on  the  title-page). 

Dcclrimi  en  castellano  y  mexicana  (another  edition,  infra). 

—Pedro  oe  Gante,  Doclrina  crisliana  en  lengua  mexicana  i  Mex.,  8vo. 

Fr.  Alph.  a  ViRACRUct,  Recognitio  Summularum  f  Mex.,  fol. 

"       "  ■•  DidUctica  Kesoluiio  f  Mex.,  fol. 

F.  Cervantes  Sai.azar,  O/tf/j^'/,-   Mex.,  8vo.  ^ 

— Alonso  he  Molina,  ^ocabulario  mexicano  f  Mex.,  4to. 

[Private  Libr.,  N.  Y.) 

Ali'H,  a  Vf.R/iCKuct,  Speculum  conjugiorum;  Mex.,  4to. 

Consliluciones  del  arisobispado  de  Mexico  ;  Mex.,  fol. 

Ordinarium  sacri  ordinis  hirremilarum  ;    Mex.,  4to. 

Frevre,  Sumario  de  las  quentas  de  plata y  oro  en  los  reynos  del  Piruf  Mex.,  8vo. 

. Ai.i'H.  .\  Veracrucb,  Pliysica  tpeculatio;  Mex.,  fol. 

. Mat.  Gilberti,  .>^rte  de  lengua  de  Michoacani   Mex.,  8vo. 

••  ••  Dialogo  de  doclr.  ciriu.  en  leng.  de  Michoacan  f   Mex.,  fol. 

yocahular.  de  doctr.  chrisl.  en  leng.  de  Micioacan;  Mex.,  4to. 
"  "  Grammatica  Uiina  i   Mex.,  8vo. 

A.  DE  LA  Vera  Cru*,  Carta,  sine  anno,  14  U. ;    Mex.,  fol. 
*-Manual para  administrar  los  sacramentos  (Lat.  and  Spanish);    Mex.,  4to. 
, — Missale  Romanum  f   Mex.    fol. 


*F  lieCepcila,  Arus  di  la:  Itng.  Chutpt.  Z^ut.      Rcmcsal"— I-coii  Pincio,  Kfiiimi.  p.  109;  EcharJ, 
Uldalti  1  Cinaianiitui    Mexico,   410;  ("Kgun      d,  !i<rift>r.  crJ.  U^ninit  ;  Ternaux,  No.  851. 


iwi 


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375 


1563.- 
1565* 


1 566.+ 


1567  + 


PuGA,  Proviziones,  fcJu/as,  Sec. ;   Mcx.,  fol.  (infra). 

[Private  Libr.,  N.  Y.  and  Provid.] 

Catalogus  Palrum  Concilii  Tridentini  [sine  anno) ;  Mex.,  410. 

A.  DE  MiiLiNA,  Confea.  Mayor  Mex.  \  Caslcl/.;  Mex.  410,  121 +3  II. 

j  Private  Libr..  Provid.) 

"  "  Con/ess.  mayor  Mex. y  Caitell.  breve;  Mex..  4to,  121 +  3  11. 

[Private  Libr.,  Provid.] 

Fr.  B.  A  Ledesma,  De  Septem  novir  legh  sacrameniis  {   Mex.,  4to. 

Reg/as y  comtit.  dela  Cofradia  de  hs  juramentos ;  Max.,  fol.,  one  leaf  only. 

"  hsiilula  ordinis  Beat!  Francisci ;   Mex.,  4to. 

'•         Fr.  Benito  Fernandez,  Docirina  en  lengua  miiteca }  Mex.,  410. 

1568  §-Same  work  ;  Mex.,  4to. 

"         Manual  p.  adminisi.  lot  sacram.  (  Lat.  and  Spanish);     Mex.,  410. 

"         Several  I'apal  Bulls ;   Mex.,  4to. 

A.   DE   Molina,  Arte  de  la  lengua  Mex.  y  Castell.;   Mex.,  bv  Ochartc,  12°, 

3  +  82  +  35  11. 

[Private  Libr.,  N.  Y.  and  Provid.] 

A.    DE    Molina,    f^ocakulario   en   lengua   Mexicana  y    Caitell. ;    Mex.,    by    de 
Spinosa,  fol.  2  + 161  11. 

[Private  Libr..  Provid.] 

Same  work;  Mex.,  fol.,  4  +  122  11. 

[Private  Libr.,  Provid.] 

-Fr.  P.  PE   Ar.URTo,    Tratado   de  que   se   deben   administ.    los  sacr.  a  loi  indioif 
Mex.,  8vo. 


1571.— / 


«573-il 
'574-- 

(I 

«575-- 

1576.- 
«577- 


-Fr.  J.  B.  DE  Laguna,  Arte y  Diccionario,  en  lengua  de  Michoacan ;  Mex.,  8vo. 

Ordenanzas  sobre  alcabalas ;   Mex.,  fol.,  6  11. 

-Fr,  Mat.  Gilbkrti,  Tesoro  eifiril.  depohres  en  leng.  de  Michoacan  j  Mex.,  8vo. 

Fr.  J.  DE  la  Anl'nciacion,  Doctrina  crist.  en  cast,  y  Mexic. ;  .Mex.,  410. 

[Private  Libr..  N.  Y.| 

Dr.  S.  J.  li.  BuKNAVENTL'RA,  Mittica  Theologia;  Mex.,  8vo. 

-Fr.  A.  DE  Molina,  Arte  de  lengua  mexicana  ;   Mex  ,  8vo. 

[Private  Libr.,  .\.  Y.] 

F.  M.  DE  Vargas,  Doctrina  en  Mexicano,  Castell.  y  Otomi  f  Mex.,  410. 

-Fr,  J.  Medina    Doctrinalis.  jidei  in   Mec/iuacanen.  Indorum  lengua}   Mex.,  fol. 

"         Fr.  J.  DE  LA  Anl'Ncialion,  Scrmonario  en  lengua  mexicana;   Mcx.,  410. 

"         Commentario  a  la  logica  de  Arittoteles;   Mcx.,  8vo. 

"  Omnia  Domini  Andre,e  Alciati  Emblemala  ;   Mex.,  8vo. 

"         Ovidii  Nasonis  tarn  de  Tristibusf  Mex.,  8v<i. 

IjyS. — Fr   A.  DE  Molina,  Confesonario  mayor  en  leng.  cast,  y  mex, ;   Mex.,  410. 

»t  "        "         "  Doctrina  en  lengua  mexicana;  Mex.,  410. 


*  hr.  Domingo  de  la  Annunciacion.  Dn./rin.i 
thrhti.tn.t  tn  caitetlant  y  Mtxicdna  ,•  Mex..  4to 
(Tcrnaux.  No.  9}'. 

+  h'r.  NLirro.fiiin,  Doctrina  ihrhtijna  rn  Itngua 
Ullaliij  ;  Mcx..  Mjfi,  +tn  1  Retncsal.  Hiil.  dt 
Chi.ip.li,  lih.  III.  cap.  vll,   I'crnaux.  No.  <)8|. 

X  Fr.  Pedro  de  Keria.  l)t.trin.i  triiii.fi,i  rn 
lingu,t  C.iiull.in,l  t  fapallrc.i  ;  M--X..  by  Pedro 
Ocbarte,  4I0,  8  +  116  II,    (I'ernaux,  No,  104). 


'■>  Ledesma.  Dt  Sifttm  nif.r  Itf. ;  Mex  .  4to. 
(••  Probahlv  the  first  book  pririie.1  in  the  Roman 
letter  in  .Mexico."  Rich.  BihUtthtta  Ami'uanm 
l^ilui.  No.  .(f).  1 

;  A.  de  Vetancurt.  jlrtt  tie  U  Itngua  Mrxi- 
frtiiJ  ,■  Mexico  I57J.  (Tcrii.iux.  No.  118.  No 
such  work  exists  uii  Icr  this  date  There  is  an 
edition  ot'  167^.  tnentioncd  in  BtdUtthtij  liibt* 
riaiui,  Pt.  I,  No.  7IJ0.) 


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,578.— Fr.  J.  PE  Cordova,  jirte  en  /engua  Zapoteca ;  Mex.,  8vo. 

l^yt).— Ceremonial  y  rubricas  gen.  con  la  or  Jen  de  celeb,  las  misjtf   Mex.,  8vo. 

'•         Instrticcitn  ■«  arte  p.  reg.  tl  oficio  divinoi   Mex.,  8vo. 
I  582.— F>.  J.  lit  Gaona,  Colojuia  de  la  pax  del  alma  en  leng.  mexic.  j   Mex.,  8vo. 
1583.— Garcia  I'ti.  Palaiio,  Dialogos  militares ;  Mex.,  410. 

Foima  hrev.  administr.  ap.  Indies  S.  Baptism!  Sacramentum  ;   Mex.,  8vo. 
"  Fr.  B.  Sahagun,  Psalmodia  Christiana ;   Mex.,  410. 

i-8r*-'rF.KiFiu.'K\ATHEClSM()||  V    K:iPosicioN    de  la  ||  Doctrina  Christiana,  por  || 
'  Serm  >ncs.  ||  Vara  i^ue  1.0s  cvras  y  otros  ]|  ministros  prediquen  y  cnseften  a 

1  .s  Ynilios  y  a  las  demas  per.son.\s.  ]|  Imi-resso  con  licescia  i>e  i.a  ||  Real 
Audiem  !.>,  enla  Ciudad  delos  Reyes,  per  .int.nio  Ricardo  \\  primero  Impressor 
enesi  s  Reynos  del  l'iru.\\  AN()  DE  M  .  P  .  LXXXV  .  |j  E,ta  tassado  vn 
Re.il  por  "cada  plicgo  en  papel.  ||  41.     8  piel.  11.  +  II  5  n-imbr.  II.' 

'  I  I'rivatr  Libr.,  N.  \  .  anJ  Provid.J 

Confrssionario  para  los  curas  de  Indies  con  la  inslruccion  centra  sus  ritos  traducido 

en  las  len^uas  i^uic/iua,  y  ^ymara ;  Lima,  by  A.  Ricardo,  410,  4  +  27  "• 

f'         ^-  '  ■^      •'  I  Private  Libr.,  Provid.  | 

Estatutosgen.  de  Barcelona  (for  the  order  of  Franciscans) ;   Mex.,  410. 
1587.  — ansnV«"'sn"  ordin.  fratr.  eremit.   S.  Aug. ;  Mex..  8vo. 
I  ^Sg.— Forma  v  modo  defundar  las  co/radias  del  cordon  de  S.  Fr.  ;    Mux  ,  8vo. 
I^c;z.— Fr,  Ar.    Farean,  Tratado  breve  de  .Medicina  i  Mex.,  410. 
,jg,  .j._fr    A.  HE  LOS  Reyes,  Arte  en  lengua  misteca ;   Mex.,  8vo. 

Fr.  Franc,  de  Alvarapo,  Focahulari:)  en  lengua  misteca;   Mex..  410. 
1594.— (.  K.  I'E  Buenaventur.a,  Mistica  Theolagia ;   Mex.,  8vo. 

15,^5. Rcgla  de  los  frailes  menores;  Mex.,  410. 

A.  DEL  RiNcoN,  Arte  Mexicano  ;   Mex.,  Svo. 
Fundacion  e  Indulgencias  de  la  ord.  de  la  .Merced;   Mex.,  Svo. 
leoe  +    V    nt  O^A,  I'rimera  pane  de  Arauco  dcmado,  ccmpueslo  por  el  licenciado  Pedro 
*         de  Oila,  natural  de  los   infantes  de  F.ngol  en  Chili.      Impres.o  en  la  audad  de 
los  Reyes  tor  Antonio  Ricardo  de  Turin  ;  410,   11+335   H.,  portrait. 
los  nno  ,u  n'rivatr  Libr..  N.  Y.  and  Provid.  | 

I599.i!-Fr.  J.  Bautista,  Confesionario  en  lengua  mexicana {  Mex.,  8^4-i).^^^  ^^^^    ^   ^  ^ 

1600.11- '•  "  Advertencias  a  los  confesores  de  Indies ;   Mex.,  2  vols.,  Svo. 

Relacion  Historiada  de  las  Exejuias  de  Felipe  11;  Mex.,  by  P.  Balli,  4to 

,  Private  Libr..  N.  »  .  ] 


*  l\i,ihulirh  in  U  trig,  frnrr.it  litl  Ptru  t  tn 
ltnfu.x  Fif.iHnU;  I.inu.  158''.  sm.  Svo  (Ter- 
iiaiix    No.  i'>4'.  , 

1  1  he  follnvving.  however,  is,  as  tar  as  known, 
the  iMflicst  Lima  boolt  : 

"  Dairina  lhrhii.»i,i  (en  (iviichua  y  Avmara). 

■   Imfru'    t"   'j  '""'■'■'   ■''   '"    '""•    '■"■    ■■>.'•""•' 
Ki  .irJt.  frimrr.l  imfriu<.r  rn  riles  rryin  dri  Piru. 

An.   ,1,   M.I).l.XX.\IIH.   '"■■*■   '!<■  »   f-    P'*'""' 

CI  S4  If  chitfrc.-i,"     .  Ilruncl.  Vol.  11,  ml.  780.I 
tj    C;ui"na.    C>:Ujiii.,i   01   Inifu.i   M,ai.  ii:.i ; 

M.-x..  iwt     r<T"»"x.  No.  ii>i  . 

{  Gtronimo  ac  Ore,  Si«i/i»/ii  Cathtli.e  ln.li.in' i 

Mex..  15V!  (Tciiiaux.  No.  114I. 


—  Aril  Ji  U  linfua  .Mrxiiana.  ttrnfuiHa  far  il 
fadri  Aiit'inio  del  Rincon  ;  Mex..  Iimo  second 
edition  (  lirnaux.  No.  ijj'. 

'i  Pedro  de  Oiia.  TirmHtr  di  Lim.i  Jrl  alio 
'S'W. /■""'■'.■  Lima.  I W9    Teriiaux.  No.  ifo) 

-  Pl.lti{.li  iinliiu.ii  jui  in  U  ix.rlUtititsim.l 
//■•{«. 1  !S'.ihu,ul  rnmin  Ir  1  irittnlr.  r!  P.  Jii.in 
Bauliila.  /r.i«.iiijn.;   Mex..  8vo  ^Ternaux,   No. 

i;  A.  de  Oliate.  Parmr  di  un  htmhn  dull  in  td 
1.1  i.!l.i.l  :>  TV:.-.','.!  .  .  .  ."■'.I  •'''  lirvi.h  fir- 
.•«ii.ll  dl  iij  In.'.ici  .il  Pl'U  1  ,Vi..!.l  /■■.C.in.l.  fol.. 
Koo.  IZ  pp.'  hir>liith.  UrMi-nianu.  No.  K^.  frU.l- 
lit  an  Amcriiaii  imprcssiuDi. 


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al 


Our  readers  are  doubtless  aware  that  only  "in  January,  1639,  printing  was  first  per- 
formed in  that  part  of  North  America  which  extends  from  the  gulph  of  Mexico  to 
the  frozen  ocean."*  The  first  press  and  font  of  type  were  imported  by  Rev.  Jesse 
Glover,  who  defrayed  a  part  of  the  e.-pense,  the  balance  being  contributed  by  several 
gentlemen  in  New  England  and  Amsterdam.  A  London  printer,  called  Stephen 
Dave,  came  at  the  same  time  with  the  printing  apparatus,  in  1638,  and  the  office  was 
located  in  Cambridge,  Massachusetts.  "The  first  thing  which  was  printed,"  says 
Winthropt,  "  was  The  Frtemen's  Oaih ;  the  next  was  an  almanack  made  for  New  Eng- 
land, by  Mr.  William  Peirce,  marinerj,"  both  of  which,  according  to  Thomas,  were 
issued  in  1639.     As  to  the  frit  took  printed  north  of  Mexico,  it  was  the  following  : 

THE 

WHOLE 

BOOKE   OF    PSALMES 

Faithfully 

TRANSLATED  into  ENGLISH 

Metre 


dt 


ttmj 

No. 

rn  Iti 
fir. 
fol.. 


Whereunto  is  prefixed  a  difcourfe   de- 
claring   not    only    the    lawfullnes,    but    alfo 
the  neceflity  of  the  heavenly  Ordinance 
of  fi.iging  Sf^f'P'ufe  Pfalmes  in 
the  Churches  of 
God. 

CbU.  hi. 
Ltt  the  -word  of  God  dwell  ftenteoufly  in 
you,  in  all  wifdome,  teaching  and  exhort- 
ing one  another  in  Pfalmes,  Himnet,  and 
ffirituall  Songs,  fnging  to  the  Lord  with 
grace  in  your  hearts. 

lames  v. 
If  any  be  afflicted,  let  him  fray,  and  if 
any  be  merry  let  him  fng  ffalmes. 

Imprinted 
1640 

•  *  8vo,  sine  loco  (Cambridge,  by  S.  Daye).  Title  one  leaf+seven  leaves  for  pref- 
ace-f- one  hundred  and  forty-nine  unnumbered  leaves  +  one  leaf  for  errata 
(Thomas  says  "  300  pages"),  in  Roman  characters.  It  is  stated  that  there 
are  some  slight  differences  in  different  copies,  indicating  alterations  introduced 
in  the  progress  of  printing  this  edition. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York,  Cambridge  and  Boston.) 

The  work   was  prepared  for  the  press  under  the  supervision  of  Richard  Mather, 
Thomas  Weld  and  John  Elliot,  of  Indian  Bible  notoriety. 


•  Thomas,  It.  tit.,  Vol.  I,  p.  xoj. 
f  Vhlcrf  •/  Niw  KngUnd  frtm  l6)o  (»  1^49* 
Boston,>,8»o,  1815,  Vol.  1,  p.  189. 
I  We  have  been  unable  10  ascertain  whether 


there  ire  anv  copies  in  existence  of  iheie  two  pub- 
lications. Mr.  ^^.  K.  H»ven  ii  of  opinion  that  Tht 
lrtim,m'i  0.tih  was  printed  on  one  side  of  a  sheet 
III  small  paper. 


48 


oyg  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

IC4I«  2'23.     PTOLEMY-SERyETUS— Above  a  large  woodcut : 

= CLAVDiiW  PTOLEMAEI  |1  ALEXAN-  || 

DRiNi  II  Geographicae    Enarrationis,  ||  Libri 

OctO.  II  EX  BILIBALDI  PIRCKE.  \\ymheri  tralatione, 

Jed  ad  Graca  id  prijca  a  Michaele  Villanouano  \Ser'vetiis\  || 

Jecundo  recognitiy  id  locis  innumeris  denub  cajiigati.    AdieSta 

injuper  ab  eodem  Scho  \\  Ha,  qui  bus  id  difficilis  ille  Primus 

Liber  nunc  prim  urn  explicatur,  id  exoleta   Vrbium  \\  nomina 

ad    nojlri   Jeculi   morem    exponuntur.      ^inquaginta   ilU 

quoque  cum   ueterum  turn  \\  recentium  'TabuU   adne^untur^ 

uarijqz  incolentium  ritus  id  mores  cxplicantur.  || 

Accedit  Index  locupleUlJimus  ha£fenus  non  uifus.  jj 

Proliant  Lugduni  apud  Hugonem  a  Porta. 

M  .  D  .  XLI . 

Colophon  : 

Excudebat  II  Gafpar  Trechfelll 
Viennae  \\  M ,  D  ,  XLI .  ii 

%*  Folio,  title  one  leaf,  with  Servetus'  address  to  the  reader  on 
the  verso  ;  followed  by  one  hundred  and  forty-nine  numbered 
pages  +  one  blank  +  fifty  maps,  each  filling  two  leaves,  with 
descriptions  on  tht  reverse  -f  fifty-six  unnumbered  leaves  for 
index  +  one  for  table  +  ono  for  colophon.  The  "  Tabula 
terrx  noux"  and  orbis  .  typvs  .  vniversai.is,  are  literal  re- 
prints of  the  two  maps  of  that  name  in  the  Ptolemy  of  1522, 
the  word  America  appearing  in  the  latter  only.  The  descrip- 
tion of  the  New  World  is  on  signature  28,  on  reverse  of  the 
map,  and  ends  with  these  significant  words:  '« Tota  itaqz, 
quod  aiunt  aberrant  ccelo  qui  hanc  continentem  America  nun- 
cupari  contendunt,  cum  Amcricus  multo  post  Columbu  eande 
terram  adieret,  nee  cum  Hispanis  ille,  sed  cum  Portugallensi- 
bus,  ut  suas  merces  commutaret,  eo  se  contulito." 

(Private  Library,  New  Yorlt.) 

"  De  Charlieu,  Servet  retourna  a  Lyon.  II  cut  le  bonheur  d'y 
trouvcr  Pierre  Palmier,  Archeveque  de  Viennc,  qu'il  avait  connu  a 
Paris ;  &  ce  Prelat  qui  aimait  les  S9avans  &  les  encourageoit  par  fcs 


: 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


319 


benfaits,  le  prefla  de  venir  a  Vienne,  ou  il  lui  donna  un  appartement 
aupres  de  fon  Palais.  Servet,  pour  temoigner  fa  reconnoiffance  a  fon 
nouveau    Mecene,  donna  une  feconde  edition  de  la  Geographic  de 

Ptolemee,  &  la  lui  dedia Cette  edition  de   Ptolemce,  qui 

eft  in-Jol.  comme  la  premiere,  fut  faite  a  Vienne  en  1541.  par  Gaf- 
pard  Trefchfel,  fameux  Imprimeur,  que  les  liberalites  de  Pierre  Pal- 
mier y  avoient  attire.  Elle  ell  magniiique,  &  en  meme  terns  d'une 
rarcte  extraordinaire." 

(D'Abtiony'.) 


D'lrtct  rtfertncei ! 


Hoffman,  Lexicon,  Vol.  iii,  page  319. 
Bibliothica  Barhioiana,  — . 
Crevenna  Catalogue,  Vol.  v,  page  20. 
Labanotf  Catalogue,  No.  24. 
Kloss  Catalogue,  page  237,  No.  3325. 
Ebert,  No,  18233. 


I54I 


234.>    ANONYMOUS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

Melacion  Ul  efpStaijU  terremoto  ti  agora  nueuas 
mrnte  i)a  acontecitio  en  la  cibtraii  B  iliSuatimala :  es 
fofa  tst  gratie  atimiracion  ij  tic  gtatjc  acmplo  para 
q  totiO!8  nos  cmcntiemois  ^  nurftros  pccatros  5  cftc= 
most  aprefcluitiog  para  quStio  13ios  fuere  feruitio 
He  nog  llamar. 

In  fine : 

jTue  impreffa  en  la  grd  ciutratr  18  IHexico  en 
cafa  tie  I^ua  (ttromterger  ano  li  mill  g  quini^tosj  s 
pareta  g  bno. 

%*  4to,  four  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  Madrid.) 

An  edition  of  the  same  plaquette  was  also  published 
in  Spain,  four  leaves,  4to. 

23  c.   ^p/wArt/5  (P.)— "  Cofmographia   per    Gemmam 
Frifium  correda.  Norimb.  1541.  in-4°." 

(Graessi'.) 


1 


'    NoMVtaux  Memcirti  d'hiitoirt,  &c..  Vol.  ii.  p.  65.  *   Treur,  Vol.  i,  p.  1 59. 


j8o  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1541.  236.    APIAHVS  (P.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

— ='         COSMOGRA-ll   PHIAE     INTRODVCTIO   II 

CVM  QVIBSDAM    CE0ME-1|  TRIAE    AC   ASTRONO-||  Ml/*:  PRIN- 

CIPIIS  II  AD  EAM   REM  ||  NECESSA-  ||  RIIS.  || 

Colophon:  ■        p 

Venetijs  per  lo.  Antonium  de   NicoUnh  de  Sabto.     Sumptu  &  \\ 

requifttlone  D.   Melchioris   Sejfce.     Anno  Domini.  ||  MDXXXXL 

Menfii  lulij  II 

*  *  Sm.  4to  ;  title  one  leaf  +  twenty-three  numbered  leaves. 
Woodcut  on  verso  of  the  last  representing  a  cat  holding  a 
mouse  between  its  teeth,  with  the  motto:   dissimilivm  .  ine- 

IDA  .  SOCIETAS  . 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

See,  supra,  page  27a,  and  Nos.  127,  149  and  150. 

27 J »   MUNSTER  {SEB/isT.y-Cq/mographia    Befchreibung 

aller  Lender. 

Bafel  \durch  Henrkhum  Petri  f]  m.dxli.  fol. 

•^         ■-  {Labanoff  Catalogue^.) 

First  edition  apparently   of  Munster's   well-known 
Cosmographia.     See,  infra,  under  the  date  of  1 544. 


1542, 


\    I 


278.    FRANCfC  (SB BAST.)— First  seven  lines  of  the  title-page  : 

nni  liitbtnig  beg  gan- 1|  ^en  @rbt6oben«  1  bon 
^ebaftiano  ||  iranco  S^orbenji  inn  bier  bit- 
d|er  I II  nJimUi^  in  9(fiam  1  ^^^rienm  1  @tt- 1|  ro^am  nnb 
^(ntericamigeftelt  nnb  abte^Itmni^  aOer  barift  begriffner 
(an  II  ber  1  nation  i  g^rouin^en  nnb  ^nfeln  1  ge(egen|)el)t  1 
firofje  I  toeitte  1  gebiadig  1  e^genfi^afft.  1 1| 

Last  line  of  the  title-page  :  *f 

M  D  XLII. 


'  Page  19,  No.  71. 


Ll 


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Folio,  sine  loco  (perhaps  Frankfort'),  title  one  leaf  +  four  un-     I  54^" 
numbered  preliminary  leaves  + 'eaves  numbered  m-ccxxxvii  _    _ 
4-  seven  unnumbered  leaves.     This  edition  differs  from  the 
edition   of  1534  (No.   197)  only  in  the  arrangement  of  the 
lines  in  the  title,  and  is  probably  only  a  new  issue  of  the 
latter,  but  with  a  new  title-page. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 


Dirta  rtfertncm  f  Schelhkrn,  Erg'A%lkhkeittn,  Vol.  i,  pages  log-izz'. 
■J  RMiothtca  Hrcwniana,  page  lo,  No.  70. 
(  Ukaesse,  Vol.  n,  page  617. 


2  '^Q*     C/iBE(^A  DE  I'MCA— Under  a  hr^e  coiit-of-itrms  7cith  the 

double-headed  eagle : 

c  Ea  xtlmm  que  ilia  %\\m  mi-  ii 

fiej  catrra  tie  bara  tic  lo  ararfritio  culas  :iinTiiasi  II 
enla  armatia  tjonlir  ima  por  goucrnatior  i3a-||p1)ilo 
tit  narbanitirftic  cl  ano  He  brnntell  ij  fietc  ijafta  el 
ano  ^  treimta  n  feijs  ||  (lue  ijoluio  a  ^cwill^i  fon 
teestlltiefu  eompaitia.:.|| 

Colophon : 

€  ^ue  impte{(0  el  \mUnit  iu-  w 

taUo  eula  magnitiira  uol)le  )>  antiquiffima  piutjati  II 
tieZiamora:  pov  los  IjonrtaDos  baronesiSlup-Jlftin 
tit  pai  1)  Juan  ^Jirarto  eompauerogj  im  ||  pvrffoves 
trc  libros  beiinos  tiela  tiiri)a  fiulltiati.  Z  rofta  v 
efpenfas  Uel  birtuofo  ba  ||  ron  Siuan  petiro  mufetti 
meteatjet  ||  tie  litros  benuo  tie  iifletJina  tiel  II  eampo. 
aeatofe  en  feijs  tiias  II  tiel  mes  tie  <C^itui)te.  ano  || 
liel  naffimiento  U  nto  fal  II  uatior  ^tSn  tf'rifto  tie  || 
mil  8  (|uinientO!3  g  II  quarenta  ij  tios  ||  aftos.  11 


'  British  Museum  Catalogue.         '  Contains  also  an  interesting  sketcli  of  Franck. 


38a 


1542. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 

Sm.  410  (signatures  from  A  to  1  in  eights) ;  title  one  leaf-|- 
sixty-six  unnumbered  leaves,  twenty-nine  lines  to  a  full  page. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York.) 


There  are  two  distinct  works  which  bear  the  name  of 
Cabecfa  de  Vaca.  The  present,  which  is  the  Re/acion, 
relates  the  hardships  and  adventures  attending  the  expe- 
dition from  the  Bay  of  Tampa  to  the  village  of  Cora- 
zones  in  Sonora,  and  which  lasted  eight  years,  every  day 
almost  being  marked  with  unexampled  sufferings.  The 
other  consists  in  the  Commentarios,  which  were  written 
under  Nunez'  direction  by  Pero  Hernandez'.  This 
was  added  to  the  second  edition  of  the  Relacion,  pub- 
lished in  1555.  The  latter  thrilling  narrative  was  com- 
posed by  Alvarez  Nunez,  better  known  under  the  name 
of  Cabc^a  de  Vaca,  which  he  inherited  from  his  mother. 
The  origin  of  this  strange  surname  is  thus  related  by 
Tcrnaux\ 

"Au  mois  dc  juillet  1212,  I'armee  chretienne,  commandcc  par 
les  rois  dc  Castille,  d'Arragon  et  de  Navarre,  s'avan^ait  contrc  le$ 
Maures,  lorsqu'arrivee  a  Castro-Ferral,  tous  les  passages  se  trouvercnt 
occupes  par  I'ennemi,  Les  chrctiens  allaient  done  se  voir  forces  de 
retourner  sur  leurs  pas,  quand  un  bcrger,  nomme  Martin  Alhaja,  se 
presenta  au  roi  dc  Navarro,  et  ottrit  d'indiquer  un  chemin  par  Icquel 
I'armee  pourrait  passer  sans  obstacles:  le  roi  envoya  avec  lui  don 
Diego  Lopez  de  Haro  et  don  Garcia  Romeu.  Pour  qu'ils  retrouvas- 
scnt  ia  route,  Alhaja  pla^a  a  I'cntree  du  passage  qu'il  avait  decouvert  Ic 
squclette  d'une  tete  de  vache  I^Qibei;,!  de  vaca). 

"  Le  12  Ju  nicme  mois  les  chrctiens  gagnerent  la  bataille  de  las 
Nava>  de  Tolosa,  qui  assura  a  jamais  leur  suprcmatie  sur  les  Maures. 

"  Le  roi  recompenia  Martin  Alhaja  en  I'anoblissant  ainsi  que  sa 
descendai  je,  et  celui-ci  en  mcmoirc  de  I'evenement  qui  lui  avail 
merite  cet  honneur,  changea  son  nom  en  celui  de  Cabe^a  de  Vaca." 

His  mother,  Dona  Teresa,  was  a  lineal  descendant 
of  Martin  Alaja  ;  but  he  was  himself  a  native  of  Xeres', 


•  PnrUce,  and  Antonio,  Bibliotli.  Hup.  daluci.i,  lap.   37,  ap.  Ternai-x.     F»anck- 

Noia.  V  .1.  I,  p.  61.  ENAU,  llih/.  Hispanica,  p.  255,  mentiom  a 

'  Rtcutit;    Paris.  183-,  [>.  1.  work    concerning    the    "noble    y    antigua 

»  Akgote  di  Molina,  Nobltza  de  An-  Casa  dc  Cabe^a  de  Vaca." 


1 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


383 


and  the  grandson  of  Pedro  de  Vera,  the  conqueror  of    154^' 

the  Canary  islands.  

He  was  one  of  the  three  only  survivors  of  the  un- 
fortunate expedition  of  Pamphiliode  Narvaez  to  Florida 
above  mentioned,  who  succeeded  in  returning  to  Spain. 
There  was  a  fourth,  a  negro,  called  Estavanico,  who 
met  a  singular  fate.  He  remained  in  this  country,  found 
his  way  into  Mexico,  and  some  years  afterward  became 
the  guide  of  Marco  de  Nizza  in  the  disastrous  expedi- 
tion to  the  unknown  town  of  Cibola.  Estevanico  fell 
into  the  hands  of  the  Indians,  who  put  him  to  death, 
alleging  that  he,  a  black  man,  could  not  be  the  envoy 
of  a  race  of  whites. 

Alvarez  Nuiiez  died  at  a  ripe  old  age*.  We  do  not 
recollect  where  we  have  seen  it  stated  that  it  was  at 
Seville  in  1564. 

The  chief  authorities  concerning  this  daring  adven- 
turer, or  his  expeditions,  are  Schmidel',  Gomara'',  Bcii- 
zoni^,  Garcllasso  de  la  Vega%  Herrera',  Torquemada'°, 
Charlevoix"  and  Funes". 

This  account  was  translated  into  Italian  by  Ramusio", 
and  paraphrased  into  English  by  Purchas'-*.  Ternaux 
gave  a  I'Vench  version",  and  Mr.  Buckingham  Smith  a 
new  translation  from  the  original  Spanish". 

The  text  was  printed  by  Barcia"',  who  availed  him- 
self of  the  opportunity  to  add  a  dissertation''  vindicating 


*  N.  IJki.  Ti.tHi),  Hhtoria  I'rov.  Parj- 
rjuaii,e;    l.icgu,  tol.,   1673,  lib.  i,  cap.  xiv. 

'  A'(T,j  historia  admiranJa  euUiJjM 
ttjvigal.  ;  Nuremb.,  4:0,  I  599.  cap.  xxxi. 
Siliiiiiili'l's  aceount  w.is  inserted  for  the 
first  tiiin-  in  .in  appendix  to  the  second  part 
of  the  Ifeltlrjchs,  published  at  Franktort, 
tol.,  in  1567,  tile  tirst  volume  of"  which 
is  Si'bastian  Franck's  well-known  work 
(supra,  No.  197).  It  was  republished  in 
German,  in  1599;  but  Hulsiu;,  dissatis- 
fied with  certain  omissions,  gave  this  Latin 
translation,  which  is  the  most  complete. 

'  Hist.  jrei:.  de  las  India.,  lib.  11,  cap. 
XLVi  and  Lxxix. 

'  Hiit.  del  Nuevo  Mondo.  lib.   11,  c»p. 


IX  (mentions  only  Pamphilo  de  Nar- 
vaez I. 

'  Ui-tir.  gen.  del  Peru,  lib.  1,  cap.  111. 

*  Uecad.  III.  lib  II,  cip.  iv ;  Dec.i  1.  iv, 
lib.  IV,  cap.  4-8;  Dcc.id.  vi,  lib.  1,  cap.  3-S. 

'*  M^narjuij  Indiana,  lib.  xiv.  cap.  XXII. 

"    Hiiliire  du  Paraguay,  Vol.  1. 

'*  EniafO  de  la  hist,  cifil  de!  Para,^:iay  ; 
Buea  >!-.Ayres,  3  vols,,  410,  1816-17. 

'•  Vol.  Ill,  tol.  310-30. 

'*  Pi/grimes,  Part.  11,  B.  viii,  pp.  1499- 
1556. 

"  Washington  city,  4to,  1S51,  piivately 
printed. 

•*  Himriadores  Primiii^'oi,  Vol.  i. 

"  Bv    A.  .AnDoiNO. 


J  84  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  C42.  Cabe^a  de  Vaca  from  the  aspersions  of  Honorio  Phili- 
pono",  who  deemed  it  strange  that  our  adventurer 
should  have  presumed  to  perform  miracles,  which,  as 
everybody  knows,  is  a  privilege  belonging  exclusively 
to  the  clergy,  and  not  to  mere  '*  scelestos  milites." 

All  the  authors  and  bibliographers  who  mention  this 
Rclacion,  quote  only  the  edition  of  1555"',  which,  to 
within  a  few  years,  was  the  only  one  known. 

240.     PTOLEMY— MUNSTER— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

GEOGRAPHIA  ||  vniversalis,  vetvs  et 

NOVA,  II  COMPLECTENS   ||   CLAVDII      PTO/  || 
LEMAEI     ALEXANDRINI     ENARATIO/  ||  NIS     LIBROS 

viii.  II  Qjiorum  primus  noua  tranflatione 
Pirckhcimeri  et  ||  acuflione  commentarioli 
illiirtrior  quam  hade  ||  nus  fuerit,  redditus 
eft.  II  Reliqui  cum  graeco  &  alijs  uetuftis 
excplaribus  col/  ||  lati,  in  infinitis  fere  locis 
caftiiiatiores  fadi  funt.  ||  Addita  funt  in- 
luper  Scholia,  quibus  exoleta  urbium,  || 
montium,  fluuiorum  (5  nomina  ad  noftri 
feculi  mo/ 1|  rem  exponuntur.  ||  Succedunt 
tabular  Ptolemaicae,  opera  Sebaftiani  Mun|l 
fteri  nouo  paratae  modo.||His  adiedae  funt 
plurimae  nouae  tabulae,  moderna  or/  ||  bis 
faciem  Uteris  &  pidura  explicantes,  inter 

'"  In  his  curious   Nova    Tyfis  i'ransacta  acaesiJo  en  las  dot  fornaJot  qut  hizo  a  lot 

Nai'i^alio.  s.  I.  liil.,  if)ii.  Jn.iias ;   VjlUilolid,  by  Fernandez  de  Cor- 

'"  "/.,(  Kf.'.ui  n   V  comfniati'ji  ,lr/  goi'tr-  Aovi,  1555.      4ti),  141  +  I  11.   {Bibliotheca 

nador  Alvar  Nunez  Caieja  de  I'lua  de  lo  Bn-ivniana,  No.  104). 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  385 

?iuas  II  quffidam     antehac    Ptolemaeo     00111542.* 
iierunt  additae.ll  Vltimo  annexum  eft  com- — 

pendium  geographies  de/  ||  fcriptionis,  in 
quo  uarij  gentium  &  regionum  ri/||tus  & 
mores  explicantur.  jj  Praefixiis  eft  quocp  uni- 
uerfo  operi  index  memorabiliu  jj  populo- 
rum,  ciuitatum,  fluuiorum,  montium,  ter-|| 
rarum,  lacuum  &c.  || 

BASILEAE    APVD    HENRI-  jj  CVM     PETRVM.  || 
Third  line  of  the  recto  of  the  second  leaf: 

Sebaftianus  Munfterus  in  Bafilienfi  aca- 
demia  ||  Hebraifmi  profeflbr,  S.  I| 

In  fine : 
BASILEAE    APVD    HENRICVM   PETRVM.  ||  MENSE 
MARTIO,  AN.   M  .  D  .  XLII.  jj' 

%*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  nine  preliminary  leaves,  including  six 
of  index  +  seventeen  leaves  +  one  blank  +  one  leaf  for 
another  title-page,  beautifully  illustrated,  on  the  reverse  of 
which  is  a  mappemund,  occupying  two  pages,  and  bearing  the 
title  of  Tvpvs  vNivERSALis.  It  contains  "America  seu  insula 
Brasilij,"  above  which  lie  Cuba,  Hispaniola,  Terra-Florida, 
Francisia,  between  which  and  "Terra  nova  siue  de  Bacalhos," 
runs  a  passage  labeled  "  Per  hoc  fretu  iter  patit  ad  Molucas." 
Then  twenty-two  maps,  the  seventeenth  of  which  is  the 
"  NOVAE  INSVLAE  XVII  NOVA  TABVLA,"  on  the  rcvcrse  of  which 
is  the  description.  These  maps  are  followed  by  the  Second 
Book  of  Ptolemy,  printed  in  double  columns,  and  numbering 
from  I  to  195.     The  borders  were  designed  by  Holbein'. 

(Private  Libr.,  Brooklyn  and  Owl's  Head.) 


'  The  Atktng  Raurieti   (p.   24)  men-  *  Rumohr,  Heltein;  Leipzig,  1836,  p. 

tions  *•  Tabula  Ptolemaic te,  &    appindix  114,  quoted  by  Graesse. 

geographia,   1540,"  but  we  are  unable  to  *  In    Rich's    Supplement,   page    2,    we 

ascertain   whether   the   present  edition    is  find:    "1542    Isla  :    Fruto   de   todos   los 

intended.  Santos,  Folio.   Sevilla."     This  is  only  the 

49 


J 86  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  CA'X,        The  present  is  Sebastian  Munster's  edition  of  Ptolemy. 

~  Dirict  rtftrinttit  {  Hiom,  Ceog^r.  Biichiriaal,  — . 

J  HorrMAN,  Ltxic.  Bibliot^r.,  Vol.  Ill,  page  3*0. 
(Gracmi,  Vul.  V,  p.  501. 

241.     COPERNICK  (N.)— Recto  of  the  first  Itaf: 
NICOLAI    CO  11  PERNICI   TORINENSIS  II  DE 

REVOLVTioNiBvs  oRBi  ||  vm  ccelcftium,  Libri 
VI.  11  Habes  in  hoc  opere  iam  recens  nato, 
&  adito  II  ftudiofe  ledor,  Motus  ftellarum, 
tarn  fixarum  H  quam  erraticarum,  cum  ex 
ueteribus,  turn  etiamUcx  recentibus  obfer- 
vationibus  rcilitutos :  &  no- H  uis  infuper 
ac  admirabilibus  hypothefibus  or-  H  natos. 
Habes  etiam  Tabulas  expediflimas,  ex  H 
quibus  eofdcm  ad  quodiis  tempus  quam 
facilillme  calculare  poteris.  Igitur  eme, 
lege,  fruere.  |1 

Norimbergae  apud  loh.   Petreium, 
Anno  M.D.XLIII. 

*  *  Folio;  title  one  leaf4-  nine  preliminary  leaves,  including  four 
for  the  index  +  one  hundred  and  ninety-six  numbered  leaves. 

(British  Museum.) 

See  in  Book  i,  cap.  in.     ^omodo  terra  cH  aqua  unum 
globa  perficiat,  especially  the  passage  on  fol.  a :  "  Magis 

work  of  the  Spanish   physician  Roilerick.  Toda   Santos,  0  Antidoto  eficaa  contra  el 

Dial  or  Ruy  Diaz  de   Isla,  mentioned  by  m<il  Frances  hallado,  y  disfuesto  en  el  Hos- 

Antonio   [Bibliol.  Hisfan.  Nova.  Vol.  ir,  filial    de     Todos   Santos   de    Lishoa.      Ad 

page  264),  in  these  words  :  Joannem  m.    Portugalli*  Regum  .  Hispali 

"  Tralado  contra  las  buhas.  sive  Fruto  de  apud  Dominicum  Roberti  in  folio  1 541.' 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  387 

id  crit  clarum,  si  addantur  insulas,"  &c.,  &c.  Wc 
should  add,  however,  that  not  only  Schoner  corre- ^ 
sponded  with  Copernick,  but  he  was  one  of  the  editors 
(Andreas  Ossiander  bein^  the  other)  of  this  great  work. 
He  even  paved  the  way  for  it,  several  years  in  advance, 
by  the  publication  of  a  well-known  treatise'. 

"  First  and  rarest  edition  of  this  celebrated  woric.  The  author's 
real  name  was  Copcrnicic,  or  Zopernick,  the  C  being  pronounced 
like  T/..  He  died  24th  May,  1543,  only  a  few  hours  after  he  had 
received  the  first  copy  of  his  labors  in  print." 

(LiBRi'.) 

Diftt  rtftrinttti  fGAUtNDi,  Tych.  Btah.  riia,  acctii.  N.  Copirnici,  page  319. 
■J  HuMBOLiiT,  Casmot,  Vol.  ii,  pages  68 1,  687,  nott. 
(  Ebcxt,  Dictionary,  No.  5 1 90. 


i543« 


24.2.   DOCAMPO  {F.)— Below  a  large  tvoodcut  of  the  arms  of  Spain: 

T  <©«  patro  Ufetos  prlmcros  tic  la  ortollnlca 
L/gcneral  tie  iafpafta  que  reropila  el  mae-  II  ftto 
jf  lorian  tio  ranpo  {sic)  criatio  ?  rtonifta  tjcl  II  i5m= 
peratior  Me?  nueftto  feftot  por  man-iltiatio  tie  fu 
mageftati  fefarea.  II  iSnfamora.  Slnno .  iifl .  2) . 
xlUi .  II 

Colophon : 

€  Jfuera  impreffos  eftos  quatto  libtosjlprimero^ 
tic  la\rronica  tie  lElpana  que  recopila  el  liflaeftro 
.  jFlo  II  tiau  tio  eaupo,  (Cronifta  tic  la  Ittageftati 
orefarea,  en  la  magui- II  tiira,  noble,  jj  antiquimma 
ciutiati  tie^amora  por  el  ijontralltio  baron  *uan 
pirartio  Impreffor  tie  liiiros,  bcHno  tic  lajltiirija 
ciutiati.  a  cofta  ij  cfpenfasi  tiel  birtuofo  baronlUPuan 

•  Ad  Clariss.  v.  de  Jo.  Schonerum,  de     dam  mathemaiica  siudiosum  narratio  prima  { 
lihrii  revolulionum  irudiiiii.  viri  It  matht-     Dantzick,  4to,  1540. 
matici   Nicolai    Copirnici   .    .  .  fr   ,ucm-         '  Catalogue  tor  1861,  No.  1916. 


" ' 


388  Bibliotheca  /fmericana. 

'543»  PP^^o  muffetti  metratrct  tie  Uttoa  beHno  ^  JWctrina 

Ircl  campo.    arabaroufe  a  Quuue|ltila»  Ucl  mc«  Tic 

DefUmbre.  Mo  Hcl  nafci  II  \niHo  tit  nueftto  falu= 
aHor  Jefu  ci)tifto  ||  Tie  mil  g  quinientoj5  i)  (luatcuta )}  II 
ttes  aflofit.  EeiiiiauHo  en  lEfpa- 1|  fta  el  ISmpeealior 
tion  arat-lilo^  nuefUQ  feftot  j)|liie  natural. :.|h:^  II 

*^*  Title  one  lear+  leaves  numbered  on  the  recto  from  fol.  11  to 
lol.  ccxxxv  -f  ten  unnumbered  leaves  for  the  table.  An  ex- 
tremely well-printed  book. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

Florian  do  Canpo',  Docampo',  or  de  Ocampo',  was 
born  of  a  I'ortuguesc  family  at  Zamorra*,  shout  the  year 
1500'.  He  studied  at  Alcala  under  Antonio  de  Le- 
hrixa,  joined  the  church,  was  appointed  in  I5_^9  chron- 
icler of  Charles  V,  and  tlied  in  1555''.  Mr.  Ticknor 
says'  that  "the  work  of  Ocampo,  in  its  very  structure, 
is  dry  and  ahsunl."  At  all  events  it  contains  an  inter- 
esting chapter  (xxth  on  fol.  civ)  devoted  to  the  discovery 
of  the  islands  of  Misjianiola,  Cid)a,  tkc.  It  is  worthy  of 
notice  that  Columhus  is  not  mentioned  by  name.  The 
work  was  reprinted  with  additions,  Medina  del  Campo, 
fol.,  155.3',  Alcala,  fol.  iS7^*>  ^"^  Madria,  10  or  only 
2  vols.  4to,  1791 '. 


Direct  riftrcmtt !  i   FaiVTAO,  Anahcia,  page  198 


Mlusei.,  Bililiothtca  llhlorica.  Vol.  vt,  I'.ir'  i,  yif,r  121. 
liAUMOAarcK,  Nuihrithltn  von  merkiuiirj.,  Vol.  1,  page  115. 
Gii.tiiilt,  Vol.  V,  page  4. 
Bibliotheca  Grenvilliana,  pi-^e  1 1  ], 


'  Title-page  unA  colnphon.  .1  pension  fiir  Ocampo,  ami  lay  that  he  wai 

*  KsANiKENAU,  W/A/io/A. //(i/><i«.,p.  IKy.  tliiii    (illy-five    years    old,   ami    li.iii    hren 

•  TicKNoii,   Hiitory  of  Ufamik  Littra-  iliruniiler  Croni  153';.      (.See  '  l'.ipituloii  y 
tyre.  Vol.  11,  p.  17.  I.eyes,'  Valladolid.  (olir),  i5  5»,  f.  I«i")— 

*  Antosio,  Hibliilhecj  Hiipana  N<iva,  'rurNon,  loc.  cii.,  p.  i«,  ».  7. 

Vol.  I,  p.  VH-  '  Kr/ABAi,    llihiialeia  lie  lol   Kuril,  de 

•  "The  Cortes  of  V.illjdolid,  m5,  in  /»i  'Vrii  Cohgioi  Mayorei,  p.  237 
their  '  I'etitionet*  tixviii.  and  kiiii.,  aalc         '  UnUNIir,  Vol.  iv,  col.  1  ;o. 


Bibliotheca  /Americana.  389 

24,'?.     yM.F.NCl/l  (M.  l)K)-Rcclo  of  the  Jinl  leaf:  1543' 


^^0\\  i^xmU^w  imperial 

Then  woodcut  o\  an  escutcheon. 

C  ILibto  Uamatio  (JTiicforo  Tie  birtu||tje»  btil  ^' 
coplofo.  (iTopilatJO  pot  *:n  iclifliofo  portugur^.  ||tie 
la  ottJS  t\  fctafico  patiic  ftlt  frftri»co  Dirigitio  al 
mui)  nurftto  II  frftot  jFranrifro  prffoa  :  trforcto  lil 
mu5  efclareritjo  r  inu  ....  II 

Colophon : 

€  ^  ((lona  :  5  alithan^a  die  ii 

tjio«  toiopoticrofo  5  tic  fu  UeuTjita  IBaTitr  11  la  bir= 
grn  fancta  Ittatia.  Jf  uc  imptrffallla  prrfrutr  obra, 
llamaua  JTcforo  t«r  bittu-IIUfjs,  en  la  billa  Tie  li^r= 
tiina  ticl  ra  II  po,  pot  tJrtto  tic  (ffaftto  im-  II  ptrfot 
tjc  libto».  acabofc  allbCBcntc  tJia»  U  ©tubtciiafio. 
liil .  D  .  xliii .  II 

*  ♦  4t(j,  title  one  leaf-l-  twenty  preliminary  unnumbered  leaves + 
(jnc  l)lank  +  sixty-tour  unnumbered  leaver  -\-  leaves  numhercd 
Lxv-cxxxv  -}-  one  leaf  for  the  above  colophon. 

(Private  Library,  Mexico.) 

This  anonymous  compilation  by  a  Portuguese  monk 
of  the  I'ranciscan  oriier,  interests  us  only  on  account  of 
two  letters:  one  from  Martin  de  Valencia  forwartied  to 
the  bishop  of  Mexico  to  the  general  chapter  of  the  Fran- 
ciscans held  at  Toledo ;  the  other,  adtlressed  to  the  said 
de  Valencia  by  the  friars  of  the  l-'ranciscan  Convent  of 
lalmanaco,  dated  June  I2th,  15  jl.  These  two  letters 
have  also  been  inserted  i»'  the  Latin  Corlez  of  1532 
{supra,  No.  168),  :i\\d  in  the  Novus  Orbui  of  1555'- 

IJirtit  rifirtnce  1  Tr.BNAUx,  Nn.  50. 


'  Ful.  665,  If. 


39<^ 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


I  C43.  *  244.     rALENCIA  {MARTIN  DE)  U  A.  DE  OLAVE. 


StitiS  «  It  II  ^^^"^  ^prtaUo  B  cicplo  ticlois  ficleg. 
0||l V  ♦  IJ  II  ^iguefc  el  glo  II  riofo  martgrio  tirl 
ticnaufturatio  patjrc  frag  En  II  tires  lie  efpoleto : 
ftanle  Tielos  menoress  lirla  ortien  II  Hel  ferafiro  patire 
nue'ftro  fant  jFraurUco.  iBl  qual  martgrio  recitio 
enla  riutiaTi  tie  jFe?  potla  bertiati  II  tie  nueftra  fagta 
fe,  a  nueue  tiias  tiel  me»  tie  ||  iSneto  tiel  afto  tie 
iSfSi  .1^  ,  xxxx] .  II 

%*  410,  eleven  unnumbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,    Providence.) 

"  This  is  an  introductory  paragraph  on  the  recto  of  the  first  leat 
of  a  small  410  tract  of  1 1  unpaged  leaves,  Gothic  Letter,  without 
title,  place  of  printing,  or  date.  It  contains,  first,  the  above-men- 
tioned "  Martyrio"  written  by  F.  Antonio  de  Olave,  dated  "  ea  el 
convento  ae  St'tuval,"  April  10,  1 532,  translated,  as  the  anonymous 
author  of  the  tract  states  ion  the  verso  of  the  2d  leaf),  by  him,  trom 
an  old  sheet  which  had  been  sent  by  King  John,  of  Portugal,  to 
the  general  chapter  of  Franciscans,  held  at  Toledo  "en  el  dia  del 
sancto  pentecostes."  Then  follows  a  letter  of  F.  Martin  ue  Valen- 
cia, sent  by  the  bishop  of  Mexico  to  the  same  chapter,  accompanied 
by  another,  addressed  to  Martin  de  Valencia  by  the  friars  ot  the 
Franciscan  convent  at  Talmanaco,  dated  June  12,  1531. 

"  The  copy  before  us  bears  the  stamp  of  Mr.  Ternaux's  collection. 
It  has  the  same  contents  a;t  his  No.  50,  but  a  different  title." 

(Bihliclheca  Bmtuniana* .) 

The  present  is  not  a  separate  work,  but  simply  a  por- 
tion of  the  preliminary  part  of  the  above  No.  243. 

Di'tct  rtftrtiKt  I  TlHNAUX,  Bit/ialkifue  A/ricaiiu,  No.  l8o. 


•  First  I'.irt,  p.  10.  No,  71.  Giovanni  di  Sacrobusto  e  da  altri,  per  An- 

•The  lullowing    from   Anthony  Biiu-  tonio  Brucioli.     In  Venezia  pri  Franceico 

cioLi,  a  well-known  "  I'estit'cro   Eictiio."  Brucioli,  e  Frategli  154},  in  4." 

who  occupies  such  a  prominent  pl.ue  .imong  (FoNTANlNif.) 

tht  '*  Oumniiii  frima-  cljsiii,"  miy  >:ontd\n -  —       

a  map  :  '*  Trattato  delta  St'era,  raccolto  da  f  JNMM«a  luUmtt,  Vol.  11,  p.  167. 


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Bibliotheca  Americana.  391 

245.    DIONYSIUS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  I  543" 

DIONYSIVS     LYBICVS    POETAE  |1 ' 

DE    SITV   HABITABILIS    0RBIS||A  SIMONE  LEMNIO 
POETA  LAVREATO  |1  NVPER  LATINVS  FACTVS.  || 

Then  large  woodcut,  representing  two  globes,  one  issuing  out  of 
an  open  eye,  the  other  with  the  word  AMERICA  ;  and  below : 

VENETIIS    M  .  D  .  XLIII  . 

Cum  gratia  &'  priuilegio. 
In  fine  : 

Fenetiis  per  Bartholomeum  cognomen  to  Imperatorem  :  i^\\ 
Francifcum  eius  generum  .  Anno  M  .  D  .  XLIII .  \\ 

*^*  Sm.    4to  ;    title'  one    leaf  +  thirty-nine    unnumbered    leaves, 
printed  in  Italics. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

Dirtcl  reftrtHttn  (  HorrMANN.  Lexicon,  Vol.  ii,  pages  106-7. 
■I  Bkunit,  Vol.  II,  col.  731. 
(  Ghaisse,  Vol.  II,  page  401. 

246.    PiGHius  {A.)—*^  De  (vquinoSfiorum  Joljiitiorumque 
inuentioncy  el  de  ratione  Pajchalis  celebrationis,  Paris,  9vo, 

(Watt*.) 

See,  supra,  page  i8o,  No.  107,  for  the  first  edition  of 
this  curious  work,  which  was  several  times  reprinted. 

'  S(A/((iM«aBnM(ii(«V<i,Vol.  ii.col.  757.  de   Medina  d'avoir  cxtrait  de  la    premiere 

*   Dr.    Mr.iiiNA    (I*.)—"  Lihro    de    las  edit,  de  cet  ouvrage  tout  ce  qui   torme  le 

Crandteas  y  coui  memorabUi  de   F.ipalta.  sien.      Or    comme    cette    premiere  edition 

Primum  Hispali   apud  Dnminicum  de  Ro-  est  de    1544,  quoique  dalec  dc   154?  a  la 

bertis  1543  .  fol,"    (Antonio,  HihI.  Hisp.  (in,  il  est   fort  doiitcux  ipic  celle  de  P.  de 

Mrd,  Vol.  II,  p.  ili;.t  Me.lini,  de    154V  '''''>•    1"'    Anrnio,  ex- 

"Dins  unr  note  de  la  seem  Ic  edit,  de  iste."      IBkunet,  Vol    ill,  .ol.  I??*.) 
ta  ChroniHue,  Flcrian  </,    Cumpo  accuse  P.         See,  infra,  under  the  date  o(  1  54^. 


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39a  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  e4,'l,  ^4-7*    ^^^^■^^  LEYES— Under  a  beautifully  ornamented  btr- 

,^__^^^  der  containing  the  arms  of  Spain  : 


{Mitiias  n  turn  ttata  ||  mtrnto  s  ronfrruarton  tielos 
{MiDios :  qur  fc  t^n  Ur  guarliar  rn  rl  ||  ronfrio  ij 
auTiicdaiS  rcalr!3  q  rn  rllais  rrfilirn :  $por  totioss  los 
otros  II  gourrnalrotrfit  1  mn^  s  prrfonas  partirti:: 
larr  UrUa^t.  || 

<»C0n  prtuU(0t0  tmpirrtal'^ 

Colophon  ; 

lias  prefVntf0  l<ro<^0,  i) 

ItUtf^tlitlS  II  **^^f"'*"*''^^  fi  Urrlararion  TirUa»|| 
nUITUII^  II  p^j-a  la  gourrnarion  tir  las  {'n-|| 

Dia»,  ij  burn  tratamirnto  tir  lois  II  naturalrisi  trllas. 

jfurron  im-||prrfa»  por  mantiatio  lir||  los  Morrs: 

prrfiDftr,  i)  Tirl  ronfrio  tir  las  {-n  ||  liias :  rn  la 

billa  II  Dr  airala  ||tir  II  ?t>rnarr!ei :  rn  rafa  \st  :^oan  II 

br  iirorar  a  ori)o  Uias  tirl  ||  mrs  br  Jiulio  Hrl  ano  || 

tir  nio  faluaTiovllJrfu  rriM|to||lil.D..VILHl'.|| 

*^*  Folio  J  title  one  leaf  4-  thirteen  numbered  leaves. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

Rich  calls'  this  extremely  rare  volume  "  i\\c  first  col- 
lection of  printed  laws  relating  to  the  new  world,"  and 
Ternaux*  "  le  premier  recueil  qui  ait  ete  public."     These 


•  it  '  Bibtitlk.  Amtric.  fetm,  p.  5,  No.  13.        '  Bitlioihique  Amtricaint,  p.  11,  Nn.  49. 


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393 


two  assertions  have  caused  many  readers  to  misappre-    I  543* 

hend  the  real  character  of  the  work,  which  is  not  a  col-  .    

lection  cr  a  "  Recopilacion"  but  simply  two  ordinances 
of  Charles  V,  known  among  historians  as  the  famous 
Nuevas  LeyeSy  and  which  have  been  the  cause  of  so  much 
mischief  They  were  issued  especially  for  the  better 
treatment  of  the  Indians,  and,  we  believe,  for  limiting 
the  partitions  of  lands  among  the  conquerors.  Leon 
Pinelo  states',  on  the  authority  of  Juan  de  Griialva*, 
that  these  laws  "  tan  odiosas,"  were  prompted  by  the 
publication  of  the  manuscript  tract  Dies  i  seis  remedios 
contra  la  peste  que  destruye  las  Indias.  They  were  issued 
at  Barcelona,  November  20th,  1 542,  completed  at  Val- 
ladolid,  July  4th,  1543,  and  ordered  to  be  printed,  and 
enforced  immediately  throughout  the  Indies. 

The  present  is  the  first  edition  of  these  laws.  The 
second  was  published  at  Madrid  in  1585';  the  third, 
which  we  believe  was  the  last,  at  Valladolid  in  1603''. 

As  to  the  Ordenanzas  of  Antonio  de  Mendoza,  we 
describe  them,  infra,  under  the  date  of  1548. 

Although  as  early  as  1556  Antonio  Maldonado  had 
proposed  to  frame  a  Repertorio  de  las  Cedulas,  and  the 
work  known  as  Pugas  Cedtilario\  which  must  be  consid- 
ered as  the  first  step  in  that  direction,  had  already  been 
published,  it  was  not  until  the  rescript  of  Philip  II,  dated 


•  Efiitmi,  p.  63,  Cf.  Herrima,  De- 
cad,  vir,  lib.  VI,  cap.  x,  p.  no. 

•  Cronicit  dt  la  ordtn  de  S.  Auguitin  tn 
lat  Pr»v.  dt  la  Nueva  Eifata}  Mexico, 
4to,  1614. 

'  "  LtYEi,  y  Ordenanzas  nuevas,  hechas 
(Mir  tu  Magestad,  para  l.i  Governacion  de  las 
Indias,  i  buen  tratamicnto  de  los  Iidios,  que 
it  han  de  guardar  en  el  Coniejo,  e  i  por  to- 
dos  lt>s  otros  Govern.idorcs,  Jucces,  i  Pcr- 
tonas  Particularesdeelb.en  Madrid,  15S5. 
M.  en  Casi  dr  Frjmiuo  Sanc^ea." — Pine- 
to-BARciA,  Vol.  II,  col.  8a8. 

•  Leyti  y  \\  OrdmaK^ai  Nueva-  \\  menlt 
kechai  for  m  Magit-  H  lad,  para  /j  gouer- 
naeit  it  lat  Indiai.  f  I'utn  tnitiimifitli' W  y 
cofurvaciin  dr  /m  Inli  1  :  ■(■"  if  han  Je 
guardar  en  jj  tl  Conuja  y  Audienciat  Realti 


jue  in  ellai  |l  rttidtn  ;  y  for  udot  hi  otrei 
Goutrna-  ]|  dorei,  jurzti  y  tenonai  parti-  {| 
cularei  del/at.  ||  En  yallatLlid.  \\  En  !a  Im- 
prenta  del  Licenciado  farea  de  Caitro.  \\ 
Alto  de  M  .  DCllI .  I| 

»^*  Fol.  Title  I  I.  +  I  3  numb.  II.  -f-  I 
blank,  u.  l. 

'  Philippui  Secundui  Hispania  \  rum,  et 
hdiarum  \\  Rex.  Prouiii:ei,  cedulat,  In- 
iirucionet  de  lu  Mjgesiad :  Orde  \\  nanijai  dt 
difutot,  V  audiicia  dela  nutua  EipaHa  :  y  pa 
el  hue  iratamii  ||  to  y  tfiervacU  J"  lot  yndiot 
dende  el  \\  aho  15*5.  haita  el  prtttnit  . 
dt  .  6 J  .  \\  En  Mexico  en  (aia\\de  Pedro 
Oaartt.\\  M.D.LXItl.W 

•»*  Fol.  Title  I  1.  -^  }  prel.  11.  +  107 
numb.  ..    a.  L. 

(Frivaie  Libr.,  N.  Y.  tiid  Provld.] 


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'543*  '57°>  ^^^'it  an  unknown  jurist  undertook  to  compile  a 
____«_-.  general  code.  All  that  we  have  been  able  to  ascertain 
concerning  this  anonymous  collection  is,  that  the  chap- 
ter treating  of  the  Council  of  the  Indies  only  was  printed 
in  1593  {sic  pro  1573?)  Leon  Pinelo  says"  that  the 
publication  was  interrupted  by  the  death  of  the  author. 

Diego  de  Encinas  was  more  successful,  although  he 
published  only  four  volumes,  not  in  1599'',  but  in 
1596'°,  which,  however,  were  suppressed  by  the  Council 
of  the  Indies,  as  Encinas  had  prepared  them  without 
having  been  previously  authorized. 

Thus  far  those  codes  had  only  been  collections  of 
cedulas  and  ordonnances  arranged  in  alphabetical  order; 
but  as  the  number  of  laws  increased,  and,  let  it  be  said, 
with  appalling  rapidity,  it  became  necessary  to  change 
the  method,  and  adopt  a  kind  of  digest,  omitting  the 
abrogated  laws  and  abridging  those  in  force.  It  was 
only  in  1608  that  the  plan  was  thus  altered,  but  instead 
of  intrusting  the  work  to  individuals  who  acted  on 
their  own  responsibility,  as  had  been  the  case  hitherto, 
a  board  composed  of  two  members  was  created.  Four- 
teen years,  nowever,  elapsed  before  any  appointment 
was  made.  Finally  in  1622,  Rodrigo  de  Aguiar  and 
Leon  Pinelo  commenced  the  first  volume,  but  instead 
of  continuing  the  work,  they  published  in  1628  a 
Sumario  or  abridgment  for  the  private  use  of  the  mem- 
bers of  the   Council".      Aguiar  died,   and    the  entire 


•  toe.  tit.,  p.  110. 

*  Lr.oN  FiNtLo, /or.  cil.,  p.  Ill;  Bahcia 
even  saysi  {Epitome,  Vol,  ii,  cul.  811)  tlut 
it  ciintains  ordonnances  of  this  Jate. 

'"  Froviiionei  \\  cedvlai,  cafilvloi  tie  \\  or. 
denanijat,  instruccionei,  y  cartas,  lihraJat  y 
del-  II  pachadas  en  diferetitei  liempoi  per  lui 
Mageiladei  de  ||  loi  teflorei  Reyei  Caiolitoi 
don  Fernando  y  doHa  Ysahtl,  y  Emperadcr  || 
don  Carloi  de gloriota  memirta,y  doDa  luana 
lu  madrt,  y  Calolieo  Key  don  ||  Felipe,  on 
aeuerdo  de  loi  tellorei  t'reiidenlei,  y  de  m 
Colli']"  Real  de  lat  In  ||  dial,  que  en  sui  liem- 
pti  ha  auido  lotanles  al  huen  gouierno  de 
lai  lndiai,y  [\aJminiitraiiiin  Je  la  juititia 


en  ellai.  Sacado  lodo  tlh  dt  hi  lihrot  del  || 
dicho  C'jniejo  por  lu  manJado,  para  jue  le 
lepa,  entienda,  y  le  lenga  no-  ||  licia  de  lo  que 
cerca  del/o  etta' proueydo  deipuei  que  le  \\dei- 
cuhrieron  las  Indias  ||  haita  agora.  \\  En  Ma- 
drid. II  En  la  Imprenia  Real.  \\  M.O.Xcyi. 
Folio.  Vol.  I.  14  prel.  11. -f- 461  pp.  Vol. 
II,  14  prrl.  II.  +  381  pp.  Vol.  Ill,  I J 
piel.  11.  +481  pp.  Vol.  IV,  10  prcl. 
11.  f  415  pp." 

[Private  Lilii.,  Provid.| 

"  Svmarioi\\de  la\\Reiopilacion generalWde 

lai  Leyei,  Ordenanfat,  I'roviiiones,  (jdvl.u, 

Initruccionei  y  Canai  II  yicordadai,  que  for 

loi  Reyei   lUtlolicot  de  t.i'iilU  u  Man  pro- 


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work  devolved  on  Leon  l^inelo.     It  was  in  the  course  I  5431 
of  these  preparations  that  the  Father  of  American  Bib-  ^^__- 
liography  perused  "  quinientos  libros  Reales  de  cedulas, 
manuscritos;  i  en  ellos  mas  de  ciento  y  veinte  mil  hojas, 
i  mas  de  trecientas  mil  decisiones'S" 

In  1634,  Leon  Pinelo  had  accomplished  his  task;  but 
the  compilation  remained  in  manuscript.  We  think 
that  he  died  soon  afterwards,  for  we  find  Juan  de  Solor- 
zano  Pereira  appointed  to  continue  the  work.  Nothing 
more  was  done  until  1660,  when  a  new  board  or  Junta 
tie  la  Niieva  Reropilacion  de  Indias  was  appointed.  They 
completed  the  code  to  the  year  1680,  and  it  was  finally 
promulgated  by  royal  decree  May  i8th,  1681".  Four 
years  before,  however,  Juan  Francisco  de  Montemayor 
y  Cordova,  who  was  already  known  by  his  Mexican 
reprint  of  the  Sumario  of  1628,  had  published  two  Sum- 
maries''* which  have  since  become  extremely  rare;  but 
these  could  supply  the  place  only  temporarily  of  a  gen- 
eral code. 

In  the  great  Recopilacion  just  mentioned,  the  laws 
relating  to  the  Indies  are  divided  into  forty  chapters, 
each  law  bearing  in  the  margin  the  name  of  the  king 


mu'gjJo  ....  fitr  All  InJiat  OcciJtntalii, 
Itlat  1  Titrra  Firme  del  mar  |l  Iktaao  .... 
Per  tl  Licenciad)  Don  Rodrigo  de  /ij^uijr  y 
/liutjf  MaJriJ,  by  Jiun  Gonzali'S,  l6t8, 
M.,  8  prel.  11.+  178  pp.  +  4  11. 

(Private  Libf.,  I'rmiileiice.] 

Reprinted  in  Mcx.,  fol.,  1677,  8  +  385  11, 

"  Epitome,  p.  iij. 

"  Recotiladon  \\  de  /eyei  de  lot  reytiot  i| 
de  lai  Indiat.  ||  Mtindadai  imfrimir,  y  pvh- 
licar  I'  por  la  Magtstad  Calolica  del  Rey  \\ 
Don  Carloi  II.  ||  Sveiiro  SeHor.  ||  va  divi- 
dida  en  fvatro  tomot,  II  con  el  Indice  general, 
y  al  principh  de  cada  T<.mo  el  Indice  II  eipe- 
cial  de  loi  lilnloi,  one  conlient.  |l  Tomo  pri- 
mero.  ,|  En  Madrid:  Por  Ivlian  de  Paredei, 
/IHo  de  1681.  Fol.,  Vol.  I,  6  11.  +  joo 
pp.  VoJ.  II,  3  II.  +  1V9  pp.  Vol.  ill,  3 
11.  +  301  pp.  Vol.  IV,  i  II.  +  14;  pp.  -f 
axo  pp.  fur  inilei. 

[frivalc  Ubr.,  Provt.lciue.) 

The  (ccond  cJitiun  ii  dated   1 756,  the 


third,  1774,  the  fourth,  1794,  the  fifth 
and  lait,  1841.  Bdunkt  mentions  (Vol. 
IV,  col.  II}!!)  in  edition  of  1754,  which 
dues  not  exist. 

'*  Sumarioi  de  tai  Cedulai.  Or  dene  t  y 
Proviiionei  Realei,  (fue  le  ha',  despacbado 
por  i«  Magetiad  para  la  l\iiieva  EipaHa,y 
olrai  partes ;  etpecialemente  ditde  el  aHo  de 
mil  leiicientoi  y  veinio  ocho,  en  que  te  im- 
primieron  hi  juatro  Li/<roi,  del  primer  to- 
mo de  la  Recopilacion  de  lat  Leyei  de  Indiat, 
Malta  el  alio  de  mil  leiicientoi  y  teienla  y 
lietef  Mexico,  fol.,  1678,  9   )   176  11. 

— Recopilacion  Samaria  de  alguncs  antoi 
acordadoi  de  la  Real  Audiencia  y  Chancit- 
leria  de  !a  Nueva  EipaPla,  fue  rende  en  la 
ciudad  de  Mexico  para  la  mejor  expediciS 
de  loi  negocios  de  in  cargo,  deide  el  afta  de 
mil  fuinietoi  y  veinte  y  ocio  en  jue  le /undo 
hasta  eite  preiente  alto  dt  mil  seiicienios  y 
teienla  y  liete,  con  tai  ordenan^ai  para  in 
Govierno.     Kul.,  line  anno  aut  It.o,  60  11. 


39^ 


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,  543.    who  promulgated  it,  and  the  date.     Seflor  Icazbalceta 

__^_»  writes  to  us  that : 

"Cc  code  qui,  sous  unc  forme  ou  sous  Tautre,  a  rcgi  rAmeriquc 
pendant  trois  siccles,  est  encore  particllement  en  vigueur  chez  nou». 
11  n-a  jamais  etc  positivement  abrogc,  mais  le  temps,  et  surtout  le» 
chaneements  politiqucs  qui  ont  cu  lieu,  en  ont  rendu  caduqucs  icutc. 
les  dispositions.      Les  avis  sur  le  mcrite  dc  ce  code  sont  tres  panape,. 
On  doit  Ic  iuger  d'apres  Tesprii  du  temps,  et  non  d  apres  no»  idees 
modcrnes.     C'cst  toujour*  un  monument  venerable  et  S"*  «"!  'Ue 
etudic  par  tous  ceux  qui  voudront  connaitre  I'histoirc  de  1  Amenque. 
As  to  the  Nuevas  Leyes,  there  is  a  reliable  extract  in 
Herrera",    and   an   interesting   account    m    Remesal' . 
Sertor  Icazbalceta  will  publish  in  the  forthcoming  second 
volume  of  his  Coleccion  the  entire  text,  copied  from  the 
notorial  act  concerning  the  announcement  of  those  laws 
by  the  public  herald  in  Mexico,  May  a4th,  154+ 

Direct  Ttftf.ncn  :  |    BMhth.ca  Grtavilliana,  Fart  1.,  p.  150  (copy  printed  oa  ^Olum). 

I   Biblhihtca  Brotuniana,  page  10,  No.  71. 

BiiuNtT,  Vol.  Ill,  col.  1041. 
(iiAitsE,  Vol.  IV,  page  193. 

24.8.     HENRICI  llGLAREANI      HELVETII,  || 
POETAE     LAVREATI      DE     GEOGRA  H  phia     LibcF 

unus,   ab   ipfo    Authore   iam    no  l|  uiffimc 
recognitus.  || 

Vignette,  a  hand  cutting  a  Gordian  knot. 

%  FRiBVRGi  BRisGoiAE  ||  Stcphanus  Mclc- 
chus  Grauius  excu-  ||  debat,  Anno  M  .  D . 
XLlII.ll 

V  4to.  title  one  leaf  +  thirty-five  numb^ed  Uave..  ^  ^^^  ^^^^ 
See  fol.  35,  and  supra,  page  262. 

Diritt  rtftrtncti  s  (  Bihliotheca  Barloiviana,  — . 

]  liihIUtktcit  Amtricaint  I'rimtrHi;  page  IX. 
(T»6M«L,  No.  II. 


»  Dec.dcv..,.ib7y..cap.  5,pp.  MO-i-J-        "  Hi.,.d,Cki^.,Uy..^,<^  .0. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  397 

249*     ZUM/tRRAGA  {J.)—U^ilbiii  an  tscuKbeon  and  border :         1^4.4. 


gortYtna  bveue  mug  p-  n 

uec1)ofa  He  lasf  cofa»  4  ptene-  II  ccn  a  la  it  ratijoUra 
B  a  n!a  crillftian  tiaH  en  eftilj  llano  (ia  co-  II  mfl 
(nteligfela.  (ttapuefta  pot  II  el  Ueueteuiffimo  .  ^  . 
trfl  fraj)  II  iJuft  fumarraga  primer  obpd  II «  Hftetico. 
HJel  cdfeio  U  fu  ma  II  geftaH.  tm(iffa  C  la  mifma 
elu-  II  Han  U  ittexlco  por  fu  matiaUo  II  g  a  fu  cofta. 
afto  ^  IH.HxlUi.  11 

Colophon  on  the  recto  of  the  fourth  leaf  of  signature  i : 

H  aijfira  fi  alatan^a  He  nlo  fenor  *efu  Xpo  m  He 
la  gl'lo-  II  fa  birgg  fancta  iBaria  fu  maHre :  aq  fe 
acaba  el  prefen-  il  te  trataHo.  lEl  qual  Cue  bifto  g 
examlnaHo  g  corregillHo  por  mSHaHo  HI .  M  .  ;^  . 
190  frag  «uan  Zumar  II  raga :  primer  ©bifpo  He 
Ittexico :  g  Hel  cfifeio :  H  fu  IttageftaH.  Ui.  l^m^ 
IJmiofe  eilfta  gra  ciuljHaH  H  JTenucbtitia  liflrxiro 
Hefta  nueua  II  iSfpafta :  en  rafa  He  Jua  ctaberger 
por  II  manaHo  HI  mifmo  feftor  otpo  D8iifrag  Jua 
cumarraga  g  a  fu  eofta.  II  Eratofe  He  imprimir  a  . 
xliii .  II  Hia»  Hel  mejs  He  Junio :  Hel  li  afto  He  ia .  H . 
quarS  II  ta  g  i|(ro  anos.  II 

♦  ♦  4to,  eighty-four  unnumbered  leaves;  signatures  a-liiii. 

(Private  Library,  Mexico.) 

Dirttt  riftrtnctu  J  BulUtin  du  BihUtfkih  Tor  1859,  page  1 8  3. 

\  Ditcio»ario  t/»i».  Jt  Hiit.y  Gngraf.,  Vol.  v,  paye  961. 


«Ag  Bibliotheca  AmericoMa, 

I  C44t  250.     GERSON  (y.)—l*'ithin  a  border: 

tioctot  Ituan  (Betfou  tie  II  norttina  Ci)rlftiana :  a 
qual-  II  nuicra  mui)  pueriiofa.  ^Tra-  II  UujitJo  tie  lati 
en  UBua  iffaflltellana  para  el  ftU  «  muci)O0||  nereis 
fatio.  IPmpreffo  en  |Be- 1|  Jtleo :  en  rafa  Ue  *uan 
ctom-  II  betger.  |)ot  mauaUo  5  a  rof  ||  ta  Uel  i^ .  ^ . 
otifpo  tre  la  mef||ma  riunaH  Jfrai)  *ua  (umarll 
taga  .  Meuifto  b  examlnatio  ||  pot  fu  mantiatio .  || 
afto  He .  Jill .  tj .  illUj .  II 

Colophon : 

11  acabofe  el  Ctlpartlto  tie  tuan  ||  gerfon ;  a  glotla 
J)  loor  Ue  la  fanctlffima  tilnltiatJ :  »  H II  la  facratlfi 
flma  birg^  fancta  Hilaria  recna  H  los  an-  II  gele». 
^  tie  lo»  glor(ofimnio»  fant  *uan  13aptlfta:ll 
^  fant  ^ofeplj.  i?  fant  ,iFrarifro.  iSl  qual  fe  lm= 
ptl-  II  mio  en  la  gta  riuUatJ  "t  OTenuettiltlan  IBexico 
Ue  II  fta  nueua  iSfpaila  en  cafa  He  irua  rrOberget  i| 
Di093  II  ajja  .  acabofe  He  imptimit .  ^fto  He .  JB  .  H . 
jcliUl.r 

\*  4to,  twenty-eight  unnumbered  leaves,  thirty-three  lines  to  a 
full  paj^c.  Long  lines,  no  catch-words,  signatures  a,  b,  c,  in 
eights,  J,  in  fours.  The  colophon  is  on  the  verso  of  the  last 
leaf.     Large  woodcut  on  the  verso  of  the  title-page. 

(Private  Library,  Mexico.) 

DirttI  riftrtntut  K  BuUilin  du  BiiliofkiU,  18^9,  page  l8j. 
\  Diceitnarh  Univ.  dt  Hiii.  y  Gtogr. 

A  copy  of  this  and  of  the  above  No.  249,  were  dis- 
covered a  few  years  ago  in  a  curiosity  shop  at  Toulouse. 


.iii 


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399 


251.     ConDOFA  (P.  DB)—lfilbin  an  ornamintid  btrdtr  :  1^44* 


Si  S  P0tnna  r^tana  ))a 


II 


(nftturfon  r  InfotmaclO  Irelo^  fnTiC-llo«:  pot  mancra 
Ue  bijftoria  .  OTom- 1|  puefta  por  el  mu5  reurtrnTio 
panrc  II  frail  |lrtito  tre  itortioua:  tie  burna  ||  mr:: 
morla :  primeto  funnatior  Bla  or  ||  Hen  UcIob  |)re= 
Tilraftorr»  na»  gflaialltjel  mar  ©rrano :  i>  por  otrost 
trligio  ii  fois  tiortos  Dla  mifma  ortit  Ea  {[I  ||  tior^ 
trlna  fur  bifta  ij  rxamiiiatia  ij  a  p  II  uaba  por  el 
mu5  .  U  .  S  .  el  Urfda  i  II  bo  c:ello  be  jg^Aboual 
Jniuifitabor  en  efta  nueua  ISfpafta  ||  por  fu  itta= 
geftab.  ILa  qual  fue  em-  II  preffa  en  IBeiico  por 
manbabo  bel  II  mun  .  M  .  S  .  bd  fran  *ua  fumars 
ra-llga  |}mer  otifpo  befta  eiubab :  bel  rdllfejo  be  fu 
ittaneftab  .re . g a  fu  cofta.liafto  be . i« . b . xUUj.H 
es  preuilegio  be  fu  .  3  •  il-  •  ^  •  i^  • 

In  fine : 

.^mpreffa  en  la  granbe  ij  mas  leal  rfubab 

be  Itte-  II  xieo :  en  rafa  be  «uan  ^ffromberger :  que 
laneta  gloria  asa  a  eofta  bel  birlio  feflor  obpo. 

acabofe  be  Imprimir .  Mo  be  lifi .  b .  xU(| .  || 

\*  4to,  title  one  leaf  +  twenty-nine  unnumbered  leaves. 

(Private  Libr.,  Providence  anJ  Mexico.) 

"  Pctrus  de  Corduba,  ein  spanischcr  Dominicaner  von  Corduba, 
welches  auch  sein  G:schlcchts-Nahme  war,  gebohrcn  urn  1460,  stu- 
dirte  zu  Salamanca  die  Rechte,  trat  abcr  hernach  daselbst  in  obge- 
dachtcn  Orden,  gicn^  1510  als  Missionarius  nach  Domingo,  WLrde 
Provincial  seines  Ordens,  schrieb  ei  vixabuiarit  tn  lingua  zapottca, 
und  starb  den  29  Jun.  152;." 

(JotHE««.) 


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tains  the  imprint. 


Direct  reftrencesi 


Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  vii,  No.  4780. 
Bibliotheca  Brotvniana,  page  ai,  No.  73. 
Rich,  page  5,  No.  14. 
Brunet,  Vol.  IV,  col.  464. 


252.    FRISIUS  (G.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf : 

^  GEMMA 

PHRYSIUS    DE    PRINCI- 

pijs  aftronomiae  &  Cofmographi?, 

Dec^  vfu  Globi  ab  eodem  edi- 

ti.    Item  de  Orbis  diuifione, 

&  Infulis,  rebufc^  nu- 

per  inuentis. 

Then  woodcut  of  a  mounted  globe  and  : 

mt'  Antuerpise  excudebat  loannesjl  Rich- 
ard. An  .  D  .  1 544  .  II 

Colophon : 

C  Antuerpise  typis  excudebat  ||  loannes 
Grauius .  Anno  .  |1  M  .  D  .  XLIIII .  || 

♦*  Small  8vo;  title  one  leaf  +  eighty-eight  unnumbered  leaves 


-)-  three  for  tables. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


See 


"  C  Caput .  XXX  .  De  America.  *  Amer- 
ica ab  inuentore  Amerio  [sic]  Vefputio 
nomen  habet,' "  &c. 


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401 


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^ 


La  Cofmographie  de  Pierre  11 

Apian,  libure  trefutile  traidant  de  toutes 
les  regions  &  pays  |1  du  monde  par  artifice 
Aftronomicque,  nouuellemet  traduid  ||  de 
Latin  en  Francois.  Et  par  Gemma  Fri- 
fon  Mathema- 1|  ticien  &  Dodeur  en  Medi- 
cine de  Louuain  corrige.  || 

Auecq  aultres  libures  du  mefme  Gemma  Fr.  appartenantz  || 
audidl  artifice,  come  la  page  enfuyuante  la  declaire.  || 

Then  woodcut  of  a  mounted  globe,  below  which  m  .d.xliiii.  and: 

^  On  les  vend  en  Anuers  fur  le  pont  de 
chambre  chez  Gregoire  Bonte  ||  a  I'efcu 
de  Bade,  imprimez  en  Latin,  Francois,  & 
Flameng.  || 

Colophon  : 

^  Abfolut  eft  cest  oeuure  Cofmographicque  de  Peere  Apian, 
auecq  aul  ||  tres  liures  de  la  mefme  fcience,  Aux  defpens  com- 
muns  de  Gemma  ||  Frifon,  &  Gregoire  Bonte.  Imprimes  en 
Anuers  ||  par  Gillis  de  Dieft,  au  moys  Daouft.  || .  1544 .  ||  ^  || 

*j*  Elongated  410  ;  title  one  leaf  +  one  unnumbered  leaf  +  leaves 
numbered  iii-LXV  +  one  unnumbered  leaf  with  printer's  mark 
on  the  verso.  Many  woodcuts ;  revolving  diagrams  on  verso 
of  leaves  xi,  xni,  xlix,  and  recto  of  xlvik.  Mappemund 
covering  verso  of  xxv  and  recto  of  xxvi,  inscriptions  in  Latin 
and  Dutch  ;  word  America  inscribed. 


Direct  references :  r  Libri  Catalogue  for  1861,  page  24,  No.  110. 
■j  Brunet,  Vol.  I,  col.  ■542. 
(Gkaesse,  Vol.  I,  page  159. 


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I  <)44*  254.     ©^  LEEfVIS  OR  RIKEL— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

^==^  ([  iBfte  eg  bn  cap^trlo  treue  (jue  ttacta  18  la  II  ma=: 
nera  tre  como  fe  M  tie  tat^r  las  pceffio  II  ties :  com= 
puclto  pot  JBionifio  lti(i)el  cartu  II  xano :  q  efta  5 
lati  5  la  flmera  pte  ^  ftt«  pciofoss  11  opufculog :  ro= 
manpalio  pa  comfi  btililnatr.  II 

Then  the  text  on  the  same  page. 
Colophon : 

(E  gli)6ra  g  gloria  tre  tifo  Mot  $efu  xflo  »  18  la 
blrg0  fcta  fifla- 1|  tia  fu  matire :  aq^ui  it  acaba  efte 
breue  capentJio  1  que  tracta  tre  la  II  manera  pe  fe  Ija 
tre  tenet  en  el  Ija^et  tre  las  ^toeeffioneis.  3EI II  qtial 
fe  imptlmio  en  efta  gtan  ciutratr  B  STenucljtitlan 
lEexico  II  trefta  nueua  iEfpafia  pot  mantratro  trel 
mug  teu^tetro  feftot  tron  ||  jFtag  $ua  fumattaga : 
flmet  ©bifpo  tre  la  mifma  ciutratr.  23el  II  cafejo  tre 
fu  wageftatr .  xe  b  a  fu  cofta  .  3Bn  cafa  tre  Kuan 
ctombet  11  get .  afto  tre .  |W  .  23  .  xlilij .  II 

*^*  4to,  signature  a  in  eight,  b,  in  four,  twelve  unnumbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  Mexico.) 

We  suppose  this  Richel  to  be  the  Denys  Leewis  men- 
tioned by  Foppens'  and  Fabricius^  known  among  the 
scholastics  as  the  Doctor  extaticus.  This  prolific  mystic 
was  born  at  Rickel  in  Belgium,  in  1394,  and  died  in 
1 47 1.  He  belonged  to  the  order  of  the  Carthusians, 
and  his  Speculum  was  the  first  work  printed  in  Belgium'. 

Direct  rtftrencis!  I  Mondidier  Catalogue,  page  98,  No.  1874. 

\  Dicionario  Univ.  de  Histor.  y  Geogr.,  Vol.  v,  page  961. 

•  BibHotheca  Belgica,  Vol.  i.  p.  241.  *  La    Serna    Santand£R,  Dictionnaire 

•  Bibl.  med.  et  infm.  Lat.,  Lib.  iv,  p.  95.     Bibliographijue,  Vol.  i,  p.  293. 


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2  CC.    DB  LBEiyiS  OR  RIKEL— Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  1544* 

C  iSfte  e»  bn  cfipgtiio  i)rcu5  que  tracta  I9la  manera  ==-=- 
tiu  como  fe  t*  ^«  tafcr  la»  pwffione» :  compuefto 
pov  IBionifio  Hictel  cartuxano :  q  efta  $  latl  t  la 
^mera  pte  9  fu^  ^ciofofs  opufculoss :  tomanpatio  |)a 
coma  btilitiaDi. 

Colophon : 

C  Eq  fe  acaba  efte  treue  cfip^trio  tre  Biongfio 
cartuxano :  cd  la  atricion  tie  l08  ii  argumStosf  ca  Svi% 
refpueftas .  ^c.  q  ttata  tre  lo  q ess  tnatiatro  g  betraKo 
J  lag  p  il  ceffiol» :  t  efpecial  Ma  ^  (ttorpug  Xpi : 
por  cuga  caufa  St  tomapo.  $nipffa  e  mexilico 
por  mStratfo  91.  iS.  obpo  lid  frag  itud  (umartaga :  S 
cafa  9  Jfua  crfiberger .  || 

*^*  4to,  j/»^  <7ff»fl,  sixteen  leaves  instead  of  twelve  like  the  above, 
owing  to  a  long  exhortation  at  the  end,  wherein  it  is  stated 
that  the  present  is  a  second  edition  of  the  above  No.  249. 

(Private  Library,  Mexico.) 

Direct  reftrence  1  Dicionarh  Univ.  de  Hitt.  y  Geogr.,  Vol.  v,  page  96Z. 


256.  {BioNDo  M.A.)—"  M.  A.  Blondi  De  Ventu  et 
navigatione,  cum  defcriptione  a  Gadibus  ad  Novum 
Orbem.     VenetiiSy  1544,  in-8." 

(Brunet'.) 

See,  ittfray  under  the  date  of  1 546. 


257.  MAFFEJ  OF  roLTERR/1—'*  Commctitarii  rerum 
urbanarum,  lib.  xxxviii.  cum  Oeconomico  Xenophon- 
tis.     Bafil  .  per  Frobenium,  1544,  fol." 

(Fabricius*.) 


•  ManutI,  Table,  No.  1977*. 


•  Bibl.  Lot.  Med,,  Vol.  vi,  p.  14a. 


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ICA4..  258.    MUNSTER  {SEBAST.)— Recto  of  the  frst  leaf : 

COSMOGRAPHIA.  U^Cf^t^tl* 

Una  II  affer  Senber  ^ttt((  1 

^eba^ttttm  ^Rnnfternm  in  toels^er  aegriffen  1 1|  fitter 
uMtx,  gerrfi^afftett  1 1|  @tetten,  tinb  nam^afftiger  {leifen 
Herfomen :  ||  bitten  gekeui^  1  orbining  1  glaubcn  1  fecten  1  unb 
^antie-llrungibttril)  bie  gan^e  toeltilinb  fnrnem- 1|  Ud) 
ieutfi^er  nation.  ||  ^^i  m^  defunberis  in  iebem  (anbt 
gefnnbem  ||bnnb  barin  defdjenfet).  ||  Me@  mit  fignten 
tinb  fdjonen  (anbt  tarten  erttertibnb  fitv  angen  gcftelt..  || 
©etrutft  )tt  m\t\  bttrd)  ^entii^nm  ||  ^etd.  9lnno 
im.29.xUiii.|| 

%*  Folio  ;  title  one  leaf,  +  six  preliminary  leaves,  +  twenty-four 
woodcut  maps  of  two  leaves  each  +  pages  numbered  to  dclix. 
Mappemund,  with  the  words :  America  sen  insula  Brasilij, 
and  map  xxiiij,  with  the  following  inscription  on  the  verso : 

^ie  neme  ||  melbt  ber  groffen  ||tittb  lii(en  ^nfe-IKen  bon 
ben  @^a  II  niern  gefnnben.  II 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York.) 

See  the  chapter  Son  bcn  netitoett  infeln  from  leaf 
Dcxxxvi  to  leaf  dcxlij. 

Sebastian  Munster  was  born  at  Inglehetm  in  1489, 
and  died  of  the  plague,  at  Basle,  in  May,  1552.  He  was 
a  most  prolific  author  (forty  printed  works ;   see  the  list 


*  Anglicl:  Cosmography.  Description 
of  all  countries,  by  Sebastian  Miinster, 
wherein  are  contained  the  origin,  customs, 
habits,  laws,  creeds,  sects  and  occupations 
of  all  nations,  governments,  cities  and  re- 
markable towns  through  the  whole  world, 
and  particularly  through  the  German  na- 


tion. Also,  which  particulars  have  been 
found  in  each  country  and  therein  ob- 
served. All  explained  by  drawings  and 
fine  maps,  and  placed  before  the  eye. 
Printed  at  Basil,  by  Henry  Petri,  in  the 
year  1544. 


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405 


in  Heger"),  and  not  only  a  great  mathematician  and    1544* 
cartographer,  but  one  of  the  best  Hebrew  scholars  of  -— 

his  time :  *'  Germanorum  Esdras  hie  Straboque  condituf-" 
says  his  epitaph.  Modest  and  learned,  this  good  and 
conscientious  man  did  not  escape  the  centure  of  a  cer- 
tain school  of  critics. 

The  Athenae  Rauricae^  mentions  editions  of  this  work, 
"  Lat.  1543  .  1545  .  1550  .  Germ.  1544  .  1546  .  1550  . 
1559  .  1564  .  1578  .  1621  ./o/." 

Extended  extracts  have  been  published  in  English*. 
Brunet  mentions' an  Italian  translation,  under  the  date 
of  1558,  printed  by  Petri,  at  Basle.  The  French  edi- 
tion, by  Belleforest^  is  well  known. 


Direcf  reftrences  i 


Struve,  Biblioth.  Hislor.  Select.,  cap.  xvi.,  page  761. 
Catalog.  Biblioth.  Suna'v.,  Vol.  11.,  page  35. 
NapioNE,  Del  Prima  Scopilrore,  pages  8-14,  11-26. 
Historical  Nuggets,  No.  1954. 


259.  GLAREANUS  (HENRT  LORiT.)—"  De  Gcographia 
liber  unus  ab  ipfo  aucthore  jam  tertio  recognitus.  Ve- 
netiis,  apud  Petrum  et  Jo.  Mariam  fratres  et  Cornelium 
nepotem  de  Nicoxinis  de  Sabio,  ad  inftantiam  Mel- 
chioris  Seffae,  anno  Dni  M  .  D  .  XLIV,  in  8' 


}0   " 


(Lancetti'.) 


•  Geogr.  Buc/iersaat,Vo\.i.,  pp.  79-140. 

•  "  Here  lies  the  Esdras  and  Strabo  of 
the  Germans." 

•  Page  14. 

•  A  treatyse  of  the  neiue  India  with  other 
newt  founde  landes  and  Ilandes,  as  tvell 
eastwarde  as  •west'warde,  as  they  are  knoiuen 
and  founde  in  these  cure  days,  after  the  de- 
scripcion  of  Sebastian  Munster  in  his  boke 
of  uniuersall  cosmographie  }  London,  by 
Edward    Sutton,    i2mo,    1553,    102    pp. 

[Private  Libr.,  Providence.] 
— A  briefe    Collection    and   compendious 
Extract  of  siraunge  Ihinges,  gathered  out  of 


tie  Cosmographye  of  Sebastian  Munster  i 
London,  l6mo,  1574,  loi  11.  {Bibl.  Ht- 
beriana. ) 

'  Manuel,  Vol.  in,  col.,  194;. 

*  La  Cosmographie  univerullt  de  tout  It 
monde  ....  Auteur  en  partie  Munster, 
mais  beaucoup  plus  augmentie  ornee  :t  en- 
richie  far  F.  de  Belleforest,  tant  de  let 
recherches,  comme  de  I'aide  de  plusieurs  mi- 
moires  par  hommes  amateurs  dePhistoire  et 
de  teur  patrie ;  Paris,  2  vols.,  fol.,  1575. 
[Private  Libr.,  N.  Y.l 

'  Memorie    Intorno    ai    poeti    Laureati  i 
Milan,  1839,  8vo,  page  348. 


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406  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  544.  260.    GIAMBULLARI  (P.  F.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

'^"""'^      PIER    FRAN  II  cEsco    giambvl  ||  lari 

ACCADEMI-  II  CO  FIOR.  || 

DeU  S'tto^  Formay  ^  Mifure^  dello  \\  Inferno  di  Dante.  || 

Then  oblong  vignette  representing  Noah's  aric,  with  the  motto  : 

l'aCQVA  Ch'   10  PRENDO  GIAMAI  NON  SI  CORSE. 

In  Firenze  per  N'eri  Dortelata  M.D.  XLIIII . 

•  - 

%♦  Sm.  8vo;  title  one  leaf,  +  pages  numbered  from  3  to  153,+ 
a  table  of  thirteen  unnumbered  leaves,  +  leaf  with  register, 
and  vignette  on  the  verso. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York.) 

This  work,  from  one  of  the  founders  of  the  famous 
Academy  of  La  Crusca,  is  certainly  curious  and  inter- 
esting (especially  to  philologists,  on  account  of  the 
introduction  of  accents  for  the  purpose  of  showing  the 
pronunciation  of  the  Florentines),  but  it  requires  no 
little  stretch  of  imagination  to  place  it  among  the  books 
relating  to  America,  on  the  strength  of  a  small  fanciful 
map  on  page  18,  which  exhibits  on  the  West  a  kind  of 
promontory  with  the  inscription  :  terra  incognita, 
and  on  the  South :   monte  del  pvrgatorio. 


Direct  reference! : 


Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  v,  No.  181 6. 
Negri,  istor.  de  Fiorent.  Scritt.,  page  453. 
Brunet,  Vol.  II,  col.  1582. 
Graesse,  Vol.  Ill,  page  78. 


1545- 


261.    FERRER  (JMME.)—"  Setitenctas  cath6licas  del  Divi 

^  poet  a  Dant. 

"Barcelona,  —  1545'" 

"  Cartas  del  gran  Cardenal  de  Espana  y  de  los  Reyes  Catholicos  a 
Mosen  Jaime  Ferrer ;  las  contestaciones  de  este  y  su  dictamen  sobre  la 
particion  del  mar  Qc'eano  con  el  Rey  de  Portugal;  y  otra  carta  de  Ferrer 


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i  D.  Cristobal  Colon.     ^Hallanse  impresas  en  Barcelona  el  aflo  mil     I  ^^  C* 
quinientos  cuarenta  y  cinco  en  el  raro  libro  que  compilo  el  mismo  — — -a___55_, 
Ferrer  y  titulo  Sentencias  catholkas  del  Dtvi  poela  Dant") 

(Navarrete'.) 

See  in  Navarrete's  Coleccion,  Ferrer's  letter  "  Jl  muy 
magnifico  y  spetable  Senor  el  Senor  Almirante  de  las  Indias, 
en  la  gran  isla  de  Ciban"  dated  August  5th,  1495. 

This  James  Ferrer  de  Blanes  (who  should  not  be 
mistaken  for  another  James  Ferrer,  /'.  e,  Jacques  Ferer, 
the  discoverer  or  supposed  discoverer  of  Cape  Boja- 
dor*)  seems  to  have  been  a  native  of  Catalonia,  a  cos- 
mogr'apher  by  taste  and  a  jeweler  by  occupation.  The 
only  traces  we  could  find  of  this  mysterious  personage, 
who,  together  with  Pighius,  gave  us  more  trouble  than 
all  the  authors  cited  in  the  Bibliotheca  together,  are  in 
dialogue  xlv  of  Oviedo's  ^incuagenas\  where  he  is 
made  one  of  the  interlocutors ;  and  the  following  ex- 
tract, the  discovery  of  which  we  cannot  but  compare  to 
the  finding  of  a  needle  in  a  hay-stack  : 

"  lacobus  (Mosen  laume)  Ferrer  de  Blanes.  Catalunus  sub  Regi- 
bus  Catholicis  Ferdinando  &  Elisabetha  scripsisse  dicitur  Lemosino 
sermone  :  Sentencies  Catoliques  del  Divi  Poeta  Dant  anno  MDXLV. 
(alicubi)  editas  :  quode  D  Thomas  Ant.  Sanchez  SylL  Poem.  Hisp. 
ann.  MD.  T.  I.  Proleg.  pag.  xxvii.  seq." 

(Antonio*.) 

262.    APIANUS(P.)—Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

*•?  COSMOGRAPHIA  ||  petri  apiani, 
PER  GEMMAM  FRisivM  ||  apud  Louanicnfcs 
Medicum  &  Mathematicu  inrignem,||iam 
demum  ab  omnibus  vindicata  mendis,  ac 
non-||nullis  ipfius  quoq;  locis  aud:a.  Ad- 
ditis  eiufdem  argu-  ||  menti  libellis  ipfius 
Gemmae  Frilii.  11 


>  Coltccion,  Vol.  ii,  page  97. 
»  Navarrete,  Disertacion  sobre  la  His- 
tor.  de  la  Nautica,  page  izo. 


3  apud  Clemencin. 

4  Bibliotheca  Hispania    foetus,    Vol.    11, 
p.  337,  note. 


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I  54-5*         Then  a  large  mounted  sphere,  and  : 

M  .  D  .  XLv  .  11  Vaeneunt  Antuerpiae  fub 
fcuto  Bafilienfi,  Gregorio  Bontio.  || 

Colophon  : 

^  Excufum  Antuerpiae,  opera  Aeg  . 
Diefthemij  |1  Anno  a  Chrifto  humanae  falu- 
tis  11  Authore  nato,  H  .  1 545  .  || 


4to,  title  one  leaf+  sixty-six  numbered  leaves  for  text;  on 
the  verso   of  the    last,   printer's   mark  with   the  quotation : 

GRAVIORA  .  LEGIS    MISERICORDIA,    FinSS,    IVDICIVM.  MAT.  XXIII  . 

Three  revolving  diagrams  (on  folios  28,  49,  and  verso  of  il); 
large  mappemund,  folded,  with  a  few  words  in  Dutch ;  the 
inscriptions  in  Latin.  This  continent  bears  on  the  Southern 
part  the  word  America,  and  on  the  Northern,  which  is  only 
a  very  elongated  prolongation,  Baccaiearum, 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


Direct  references  :  (  Catal.  Bihlhth.  Bunav.,  Tom.  II,  page  34. 
-!  Tromel,  No.  13. 
(Gbaesse,  Tresor,  Vol.  I,  page  159. 


26'?.    KING  ALPHONSUS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

*•?   DIVI    ALPHONSI  II  ROMANORVM    ET 

HisPANiARVM  REGIS,  ||  aftronomicae  tabulae  in 
propriam  integritatem  reftitutae,  ad  calcemU 
adiedis  tabulis  quae  in  poftrema  editione 
deerant,  cum  plurimoru  |1  locoru  correc- 
tione,  et  accefTione  variaru  tabellai  u  ex  di- 
verfis  au-lltoribus  huic  operi  infertaru,  cum 
in  vfus  ubertate,  tum  difficultatisHfubfidiu: 
Quorum  nomina  fumma  pagellis  quinta, 


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fexta  &  feptima||defcribuntur.     Qua  in  re   1545' 

Pafchafius  Hamellius  Mathematicus  infi- 1| 

gnis  idemq ;   Regius  profefTor,  fedula  ope- 
ram  fuam  praeftitit.  || 

Then  printer's  mark. 

PARisiis,  Ex  officina  Chrijiiani  wecheli  fub 
fcuto    Bajjlienji,    in    vico    lacobceo.     Anno 

1545- 


(Private  Library,  Paris.) 


We  insert  the  present  on  the  authority  of  Bishop 
Kennett\  It  is  evident  that  it  is  not  iti  tiie  Alphonsian 
tables  (which  were  composed  only  in  125".,  although 
printed  for  the  first  time  in  1492,  ten  year^i  after  the 
death  of  King  Alphonsus)  that  we  must  look  for  some 
passage  relating  to  America,  but  in  the  notes  or  preface 
of  Pascal  Du  Hamel.  M.  D'Avezac,  however,  who  had 
the  kindness  to  examine  the  work,  states  that  it  does 
not  contain  anything  germane  to  the  j abject  before  us'. 


264*    oviEDO—GOHORY— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

L'hiftoire  de  la  ii  terre  nevve 

DV  II  Peru  en  I'lnde  Occidentale,  qui  ||  eft 
la  principale  mine  d'or  du  ||  monde,  na- 
gueres    defcou-  ||  uerte,    &    conquife,   &  jj 


^ 


'  Gesner,  Bibliotheca  Universalis,  p.  32; 
Fabricius,  Bibliotheca  Latina  Media  et  iti- 
Jim.  letat.,  Lib.  i,  p.  192. 

•  Bibtioth.  America  Primordia,  p.  12. 

'  We  should  state  that  such  has  lliiewise 


proved  to  be  the  case  with  several  books 
mentioned  in  the  Biblioth.  Am.  Primordia^ 
as  for  instance  Pontanus'  poem  de  Meteo- 
rum  liber  (p.  11),  and  Thomas'  Historic 
of  Italie  (p.  13). 


52 


.^Q  BMotheca  Americana. 

1545.  nommee  la  nou-lluelle  Caftille,||  Traduitte 
d'  Italien  en  Francoys.  |1 

Ku.v6apG{,  derdiJ,. 
On  les  vend  a  Paris  au  Palais  en  la  Galerie  ||  par  ou  on  va  a 
la  Chancellerie  en   la  ||  boutique   de  Vincent   Sertenas.  H  1545- 
AVEC  PRIVILEGE.  |1 

Last  line  of  leaf  Bij : 

L'audeur  eft  Gonzalo  Ferdinadi  del 
Ouiedo  natif  de  Ma  H  dril  q  a  faid  I'hif- 
toire  generale,  dot  eft  extraid  ce  lum- 
maire.  |1 

Colophon : 

Imprime  a  paris  par  Pierre  Gaul-  |1  tier, 
pour  lehan  Barbe  &  Vincent  Sertenas.  1| 

1545-11 

*  *  Small  elongated  4to,  title  one  leaf  +  three  preliminary  un- 
*    Tmbered  leaves  +  forty-nine  unnumbered  leaves.     The  copy 
in  the  Imperial  Library    at  Paris,  contains  a  map  which  is 
not  in  the  copies  which    /e  have  examined  in  this  country. 
(Private  Library,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

Moreri  and  Jocher  ascribe  to  Jacques  Gohory  a  His- 
toire  du  P'erou;  Barcia-Pinelo'  and  Brunei  state  that 
this  Gohory  was  the  translator  of  the  present  extract, 
which  the  latter  considers  "la  troisieme  partie  d  un  re- 
cueil  italien  impr.  a  Venise  et  a  Milan  en  1535  {supra, 

Nos.  aoo  and  aoi  ?]."  . 

The  opinion  that  Jacques  Gohory  is  the  translator  is 
borrowed  (if  our  memory  serves  us  right,  as  we  have 
not  the  book  before  us  and  cannot  procure  it  at  present) 

»  Epitome,  Vol.  ii,  col.  645,  with  the  date  of  «  1553." 


' 


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411 


from  the  Bibliothtque  fran^oise  of  La  Croix  du  Maine,  i  545* 
The  title  shows  that  it  was  a  translation  from  the  Ital- -_-—_— 
and  the  note  in  signature  Bij  states    that  the  au- 


lan 


thor  of  the  original  work  was  Oviedo.  Now,  the  "rt?- 
cueil  italien  impr.  a  Venise  et  a  Milan  en  1535"  is  only 
the  translation  of  Xeres*  Conquista^  by  Gaztelu.  The 
only  work  of  Oviedo  in  Italian  which  corresponds  to 
the  present,  is  the  Libro  Jecondo  delle  Indie  occidentali,  or 
second  part  of  the  collection  printed  at  Venice  in  1534 
{supra,  page  314).  We  regret  that  we  are  not  in  a 
position  to  compare  again  these  two  works. 

As  to  Gohory,  Gohorri  or  Jean  de  Gorris,  he  was  a 
French  astrologist,  poet,  historian  and  prolific  writer 
on  almost  every  subject,  well  known  for  his  eccentrici- 
ties, and  who,  "disgusted  with  the  world  and  all  within," 
ended  his  days  in  1576,  poor  and  almost  forsaken.  We 
notice  that  a  number  of  his  works  were  published  by 
Sertenas. 


Direct  referencei  i 


I  Ternaux,  pag( 
<  Brunet,  Vol. 
(  Bibliotheca  Brc 


^  Ternaux,  page  ii,  No.  51. 
Ill,  col.  188. 
Browtiiana,  page  23,  No.  77. 


26  c.    RESENDE  {GARCIA  DE)— Surmounted  3y  two  woodcuts, 
one  representing  a  sphere,  the  other,  the  a:  ms  of  Portugal: 

Hguro  tiag  otras  tie  <5arcia  ^z  Mefetie  que  trata 
Ha  bitra  e  gtatrimmaiS  birtutieis :  e  tatiatiefii :  mags 
nanimo  esforpo :  excellenteg  coftumes  e  manljas  e 
mug  craro«  feitos  tio  djtiltianiffimo :  muito  alto  e 
muito  poUerofo  principe  el  Meg  tra  Itoao  o  feguntro 
liefte  nome :  e  Tiog  iUegss  tie  Portugal  o  tte^eno  tie 
gloriofa  memoria:  comegatjo  tro  feu  nafcimento  e 
totia  fua  bitia  ate  a  ijora  tie  fua  morte :  ca  outran 
oijtas  que  atiiaute  U  feguem.  OTom  priuilegio 
meal. 


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I  C4.  C        I"  fi"'  • 

^Z        a  lottuor  tre  treos  t  tja  glotiofa  blrgem  noffa 
fen1)ora  it  acaton  o  Uutc  tja  biua  e  fegto^  ticlreg 

tjom  Joao  0  feguutio  tje  ^Portugal foB  itn= 

ptcffo  em  cafa  Ue  Hugs  rotirigueg  Ubreito  Hel  reg 
noffo  feni)or  aos  xii  tiias  tio  nie»  tie  Junto  tie  mil 
e  q[uini)entO!8  e  quarenta  einco  aunosi. 

*  *  Folio   "  au  titre  succede  I'Alvara  accordant  le  privilege.     Le 
feuillet  suivant  donne  un  prologue  de  I'auteur,  puis  viennent 
ces  mots  •     Feygm :    virtudes :    costumes :  e  manhas  (Pel  Key 
dom  ham  o  Segundo  qui  sancta  haya.     Ceci  conclu,  commence 
la  vie  du  roi  (avec  un  titre  special) ;  elle  debute  a  la  p.  1  et 
finit  a  la  p.  ccxxiiij.     La  biographic  achevee  commence :     A 
trasladacao  do  Corpo  do  muy  catoUco  e  muy  esfor^ado  Rei  do 
Mo  0   Segundo  deste  nome,   t^c.      Apres  le   feuillet  cxxxvj 
vient :     Ida  da  Iffante  dona  Beatrix  per  a  Sayboya  ;  le  feuillet 
cxliiii  presente  une  grande  estampe  divisee  en  petits  comparti- 
ments  representant  la  vie  du  Christ :  au  centre  on  remarque 
ce  titre  :     Comessasse  a  paixao  de  nosso  senhor  Jesu  Chrtsto  toda 
inteira:  Segundo  os  quatro  evagelistas :  tirada  de  todos  elles  em 
linguagem  portugues,  ajuniada  e  concertada  por  Garcia  dere- 
sende.     Cet  opuscule  est  mentionne  comme  inedit  par  Barbosa 
dans  sa  Bibliotheque  Lusitanienne.     Dans  un  ecusson  le  feuil- 
let cliij  continue  ce  titre  :  comefasse  o  sermao  sobre  e  vtnda  dos 
sactos  tres  Keys  magos.     Foi  visto  e  examinado  pelos  deputados 
da  sacta  inquisicao.  (Ce  dernier  opuscule  a  ete  entierement  in- 
connu  a  Barbosa).     La  table  vient  en  definitive.     L  ouvrage 
est  imprime  a  deux   colonnes  en  caracteres  gothiques.    On 
n'en    connait   que   trois   exemplaires.    Ces  details   sont  em- 
pruntes  a  la  bibliographic  de  M.  Innocencio  da  bylva. 

(Ferdinand  Dinis.) 

'  Garcia  de  Resende,  one  of  the  greatest  poets  and 
chroniclers  of  Portugal,  was  born  at  Eyora  about  the 
year  J  470,  and  is  supposed  to  have  died  after  1554. 
His  intimacy  with  King  John  II,  and  the  position 
which  he  held  at  the  Court,  must  have  enabled  him  to 
witness  the  scenes  which  he  relates  with  so  much  zest 
and  originality.  It  is  in  the  present,  which  contains  a 
life  of  the  greatest  of  Portuguese  kings,  that  the  reader 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


413 


will  find  a  spirited  and  authentic  account  of  the  inter-    1^45* 

view  between  John  II  and  Columbus  at  the  palace  of  _. 

Almeria,  when  the  great  navigator,  after  being  driven  by 

a  furious  storm,  had  been  compelled  to  land  in  the  port 

of  Cascaes,  March  ist,  1492,  thus  imparting  to  almost 

a  personal  enemy  the  first  tidings  of  the  successful  issue 

of  his  voyage.     The  work  has  been  frequently  reprinted. 

Direct  reference ;  Jo.  da  Svlva,  Diccionario  bibl.  fortugea,  Vol.  u,  page  ao. 


266«    MEDINA  (P.)— Under  a  large  escutcheon  of  Spain  : 

en  que  U  contieneii  totjas  la»  Meglass,  ©eclara= 
cioness,  ^ecretois,  g  Euifos,  q  a  la  tuenanaues 
gacia  foil  neceffariojs,  g  fe  Ueue  fa6er,  i)fc|)a  por 
el  maeftro  ^eliro  tre  lifletrina.  ISirigitra  al  fere= 
niffimo  g  mug  efclarefcitio  feftor,  turn  i^ijelipe 
priucipe  Tie  ISfpana,  g  tielass  tios  ^iciliasj .  re . 

^  ifton  pteuilegio  imperial  4^ 

Colophon,  within  a  frame  : 

A  GLORIA  DEilDIOS   NVESTRO    SENOR, 

proue  II  e|)o  g  btiUtiati  ^ela  nauegaeion,  fenefce  el  pte= 
feme  lii)tollllamatro  arte  de  navigar,  ijer^o 
g  or  II  TienaTro  por  el  maeftro  iietiro  tre  ittrtiiua  II 
beiino  tie  S'^uiila.  jFue  bifto  g  aprouatio,  en  la 
Ittfi  II  sne  eafa  tre  la  Contractacion  tie  las  Jntiias, 
por  el  IJi-llloto  magor  g  ittofmoaraptor  tie  fu 
iHaageftati.  II 

1^  affi-llmefmo  fue  mantiatio  ber  g  examinar  por 
el  eottfejo  real  || tie  fu  liflaseftati,  en  la  nctle  billatie 
•fcTallatioliti,  eftan- 1|  tio  enella  el  ^^rincipe  nueftro 


414  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1545.  Mot,  8  ftt  real  corte.    Jmllptimio  U  enlatriri)a 

billa,  en  cafa  tre  jFranclfco  fernan- litres  Tie  OTots 

Troua  impreffor,  junto  a  la»  efcuelas  mago-  II  test : 
^cato  it  primero  tiia  trel  meis  tie  (©ctutte.  ^fto 
tiel  II  nafcimiento  He  nueftro  feftor  3efu  ei)«ifto,  tie  s 
qui-llttientos  g  parenta  8  einco  aftog.  II 

*  *  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  five  unnumbered  leaves  +  one  hundred 

*    numbered  leaves  +  one  leaf  for  colophon.     On  the  recto  of 

leaf  XXII,  a  map  exhibiting  the  Isthmus,  Florida  and  Peru. 

(Private  Libr.,  N.  Y.,  Provid.,  and  Harvard  Coll.  Libr.) 

Pedro  de  Medina  was  born  at  Seville'  about  the  year 

1493".     He  seems  to  have  led,  for   a    short  time,  a 

sea-faring  life'.     He  was  examiner  of  the  pilots  for  the 

Indies;  and  acquired  great  repute  as  a  cosmographer 

and  historian*.     The  present  work  was  translated  into 

French  by  N.  de  Nicolai,  in   1554;  in  Italian  by  V. 

Palentino  de  Corzutu,  in  1555  ;  in  German  by  Michael 

Coignet,  in  1576;  and  in  English  by  J.  Frampton,  in 

1 58 1.     Navarrete  states*,  in  noticing  these  numerous 

reimpressions  : 

"  Esto  prueba  el  aplauso  universal  con  que  fue  recibido  el  tratado 
de  Medina,  como  elemental  para  dirigir  la  enseflanza  de  la  nautica  en 
las  naciones  extrangeras,  hasta  muy  entrado  cl  siglo  xvii.  Fue  su 
autor  examinador  muy  principal  de  los  pilotos  y  maestres  de  la  car- 
rera  de  Indias,  y  viendo  entonces  cuan  pocos  sabian  lo  que  concernia 
a  su  profesion,  quiso  simplificar  y  facilitarles  esta  ensenanza  publicando 
un  compendio  de  su  Arte,  que  con  el  titulo  de  Regimiento  de  naviga- 
ckn  se  iinprimio  en  Sevilla  en  1552  y  1563.  Con  el  mismo  objeto 
escribio  una  Suma  de  cosmografia  en  1561,  que  sa  ha  conservado  ine- 
dita  y  vimos  original  en  la  libreria  del  conde  del  Aguila  en  Sevilla." 


Direct  references  i 


Rich,  page  6,  No.  15. 

Brunet,  Vol.  Ill,  col.  1574. 

Graesse,  Vol.  IV,  page  462. 

Bibliotheca  Broioniana,  page  22,  No.  75. 


>  Antonio,  Bibl.  Hisp.  Nova,  Vol.  11,         '  See  Lib.  iv.,   cap.  11,  of  the  present 

p.  215;  Franckenau,  £rA/.  //«/>•>  P- 344'  work.  ...  e         o 

»  Navarrete,  Disert.  t.  la  Histor.  de  la         *  Cf.   infra,  under   the   date   of    IS4<>» 

Nautica,  p.  161.  his  Lihro  de  grandessau 


■•T^pfUfm^'rlNftir'^- 


Bihliotheca  Americana. 

267.    CARTIER  {JACSIUES)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

^^  BRIEF  REGIT,  & 
fuccinde  narration,  de  la  nauiga- 
tion  faifte  ef  yfles  de  Canada,  Ho- 
chelage  &  Saguenay  &  autres,  auec 
particulieres  meurs,  langaige,  &  ce- 
rimonies  des  habitans  d'icelles :  fort 
deledable  a  veoir. 


415 


Avec  priuilege 

On  les  uend  a  Paris  au  Jecond  pillier  en  la  grand 

Jalle  de  Palais  ^  en  la  rue  neufue  Nojlredame  a 

Tenjeigne  de  lejcu  de  frace,  par  Ponce  Roffet  diSl 

Faucheury  &  Anthoine  le  Clerc  freres. 

1545- 


1545- 


**  8vo,  title  one  leaf  (with  privilege  on  the  verso)  +  one  unnum- 
bered leaf  4- leaves  numbered  3,  3,  5.  +  text  beginning  with  one 
unnumbered  leaf,  followed  by  leaves  numbered  7-48  (leaf  8  marked 
7  by  mistake).  The  last  two  and  a  half  leaves  contain  a  vocabulary 
of  the  "  lagage  des  pays  &  Royaulmes  de  Hochelaga  &  Canada." 

(British  Museum.) 


41 6  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1 545*  ^o""  *  ^'^^  o^  Jacques  Cartier,  born  at  Saint  Malo, 
—a——---  December  jist,  1494,  and  who  died  after  1552,  we  re- 
fer the  reader  to  the  documents  published  by  Charles 
Cunat',  M.  Michelant*,  and  the  excellent  introduction 
added  by  M.  D'Avezac  to  the  Tross  reprint'. 

If  we  are  to  believe  Lescarbot,  Cartier  made  four 
voyages  to  New-France ;  but  we  have  authentic  accounts 
of  three  only,  and  it  is  doubtful  whethe"  the  Saint  Malo 
navigator  wrote  any  of  them. 

The  French  original  of  the  account  of  the  first  voy- 
age is  lost.  The  earliest  version  is  to  be  found  in  Ra- 
musio*,  whence  it  was  translated  into  English',  and 
afterwards  into  French'.  This  French  version  was 
added  by  Lescarbot  to  his  well-known  Histoire',  and  in- 


•  Saint  Malo  illustri  par  ses  Manns  f 
(St   Malo,  1864,  8vo?) 

'  yoyagt  de  yaqves  Cartier  av  Canada 
en  1534)  nouvelle  edition,  put/ice  d'apres 
/'edition  de  1598  et  d'apres  Ramusio,  par 
M.  H.  Michelant  avec  deux  cartes,  docu- 
ments in'edils  sur  Jaques  Cartier  et  le  Cana- 
da, communiques  par  M.  Alfred  Rami  ; 
Paris,  8vo,  1865. 

•  Bref  recit  et  succincte  narration  de  la 
navigation  faite  en  mdxxxv  et  mdxxxvi 
par  le  capitaine  Jacques  Cartier  aux  iles 
de  Canada,  HocAelaga,  Saguenay  et  autres. 
Reimpression  Jiguree  de  I'cdition  originate 
rarissime  de  mdxlv  avec  tes  -variantes  aes 
manuscrits  de  la  Bibliotheque  Imperiale,prc- 
cidie  d'une  breve  et  succincte  introduction 
historique  par  M.  D'Avezac  f  Paris,  8vo, 
1863. 

*  Vol.  Ill,  fol.  423-441. 

*  A  short  and  ||  briefe  narration  of  the 
two  II  Nauigations  and  Discoueries  ||  to  the 
Northweast  partes  called  ||  Newe  Fravnce:  II 
First  translated  out  of  French  into  Italian, 
by  that  famous  ||  learned  man  Gio  :  Bapt : 
Ramutius,  and  now  turned  ||  into  English 
by  John  Florio  :  worthy  the  rea-  ||  ding  of 
all  Venturers,  Trauellers,  ||  and  Discouerers. 

Imprinted  at  Lon-  ||  don,  by  H.  Bynnc- 
man,  dwelling  II  in  Thames  Streate,  neere 
vnto  II  Baynardes  Castell.  ||  Anno  Domini. 
1580.11 

*^*  4to,  4  11.  +  80  pp. 

[Private  Libr.,  Providence.] 


•  discovrsIIdvIIVOYAGEIIFAITPAR 
LECAPI-IITAINEIAQYESCARTIERIJ 
aux  Terres-neufues  de  Canadas,  No-  ||  rem- 
bergue,  Hochelage,  Labrador,  et  ||  pays  adia- 
cens,  dite  nouuelle  France,  II  auec  particu- 
lieres  nitt'urs,  langage,  et  II  ceremonies  des 
habitans  d'ioelle  ||  a  roven,  ||  de  l'impri- 
MERiE  II  de  Raphael  du  Petit  Val,  Libraire 
et  Imprimeur  ||  du  Roy,  a  I'Ange  Raphael.  || 
M.  D.  xcviii.  avec  permission. 

*^*  8  vo,  title  I  +  7  11.  +  pp.  17-71. 

Having  been  informed  that  there  was  a 
copy  of  this  extremely  rare  work  in  a  pri- 
vate library  on  Long  Island  N.  Y.,  we  wrote 
to  the  owner  thereof,  but  our  letter  having 
met  the  fate  of  a  number  of  similar  re- 
quests, we  feel  constrained  to  make  our 
collation  from  Tross'  reprint.  When  we 
see  how  little  disposed  certain  collectors 
are  to  promote  the  cause  of  science,  we 
feel  tempted  to  exclaim  with  Mommsen 
(apud  his  edit,  of  Pindar) : 

"  Inclementiores  tenacioresque  eos  tantum 
hihliothecarios  invent,  qui  vel  paucos  vel 
deteriores  tantum  tibros  custodiebant,  ut  de- 
negando  aliquid  dignitatis  assumere  vide- 
rentur." 

'  Lib.  Ill,  cap.  >i-v,  in  Histoire  de  la 
Nouvelle  France,  contenant  les  navigations, 
decouvertes  et  habitations  faites  par  les  Fran- 
cois is  Indes  Occidentales  et  Nouvelle  France 
sous  rauthoriti  de  nox  Rois  Tres  Chretiens, 
et  les  diverses  fortunes  d'iceux  en  I'execution 
de  ces  choses,  depuis  cent  ans  jusques  a  hui 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


417 


serted  by  Ternaux  in  his  Archived,  and  by  the  Sociiti    1 545* 
Littiraire  et  Historique  de  ^ebec  in  a  volume  composed  ^s-^—-^ 
exclusively  of  such  reprints'. 

The  account  of  the  second  voyage  is  the  present  No. 
267,  of  which  only  one  original  copy  is  known  to  exist. 
This  sold  at  the  Courtanvaux  sale  for  thirty  cents.  The 
British  Museum  possesses  the  copy  from  which  the 
Tiojs  reprint'  was  made.  Ternaux's  version'"  was 
copied  from  two  manuscripts  (Nos.  10025  &  10265  .3  . 
in  the  Imperial  Library  at  Paris).  We  think  that  the 
Quebec  reprint  was  borrowed  from  Ternaux's. 

The  French  original  of  the  third  voyage  is  also  lost. 
We  have  only  fragn^ents,  collected  by  Hakluyt",  whence 
they  were  copied  by  Purchas". 

Dirtcl  references:  (  Santander  Catalogue,  Vol.  iv,  No.  5799. 
■j  Bibliotheca  Grenvilliana,  page  828. 
(Brunet,  Vol.  I,  col.  1605. 

268.    MARINBO  [L.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  \  'J4-6. 

^umario  lie  la  clarifflma  bi^a  g  ij^t^oicost  t^fljoss  =~ 
He  lO!8  reges  tron  jFernantro  g  trofta  Pfatel,  facatro 
tie  la  oiira  grantie  Ue  \m  mSm  memoratles  ti'iEfs 
pafta  compuefta  pot  JLucio  liftarineo  ^iculo.  JTos 
letio  en  cafa  tie  Jua  tie  Egala,  mil  g  quinieto  g 
quareta  g  fegess  aftosi. 

**  Sm.  4to,  title  one  leaf  +  seventy-seven  numbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

This  epitome  gives  the  chapter  and  repeats  the  blun- 
der mentioned  supra^  page  360. 


.  .  ,  En  quoi  est  comprise  rHisloire  Morale, 
Naturelle  et  Geographique  de  la  dite  pro- 
vince; Paris,  l2mo,  1609,  14  11. +  8  88  pp., 
3  maps;  id.,  1612;  id.,  1618,  55  11.  +  970 
pp.,  4  maps  (all  three  in  a  private  library. 
New  York).  These  are  the  only  real 
editions.  The  publications  of  161 1  and 
1 61 7  are  merely  new  issues,  differing  from 
the  first  and  second  editions  solely  in  the 
date  on  the  title-page. 


'  Archives  des  Voyages,  Vol.  i,  p.  117. 

'  Voyages  de  Decouverte  au  Canada,  entre 
les  annies  1534  er  1542,  ^ar  yacques  Car- 
tier,  le  Sieur  de  Roberval,  yean  Alphonse 
de  Xanctoigne,  &c. ;  Quebec,  8vo,  1843, 
pp.  1-23. 

"  loc.  cit..  Vol.  II,  pp.  5-66. 

"  Vo{.  I,  pp.  232-240;  contains  also 
pp.  201-232,  the  first  and  second  voyages. 

"  Pilgrimes,  Book  viii,  cap.  iv. 


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53 


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-      1^46.  260.    LBRCHER  {L.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf : 

^in  neiitae  it\tm%  <  ^t( 

^unigg  ait^  ^ortiigald  @il)iPrttt  einen  || 
grojfen  mann  §a1icn  jfi  toegen  1iriid|til)ei^t 
a;^rifllon  grofflianblttimieer  jliij  bcrmaifltliotimlt  e»ttfr 
^ttttttfrntiiett  bie||6:iiri{ien|eit  (Sitro^n  gettanr.^  1  toftrbt  fein 
Uili  mlt  felneti  gll  11  lienilin  anfong  fdjlm^ipidi  UW\= 
6frt later  jutetft  e^rlften- H  III^  oji^gelcgt  1  ^ludl  ule  bit 
^ttttitfrttto  ble  e^riftcttljelt  II  euro^o  |m  merbe  flnber 
g'berettibttb  in  cincr  11  fur^ettjelt  «  ff  tooi^lfeii  1  bub  int 
Ijelf- 11  fett  trlegen  hilber  ben  %Vixit^  \\  bnb  otte  bngtefir 
Higen.  II  ^'  ^-  '^  II  ^lfe8  grojfen  wttftS  bnb  felneS  gemo-- 
Helg  1iebefUtttttgi||tiiutt@^tiitenUd|  att^gelegtiburi^  Sauj: 
Seri^evtt  H  ban  9tieb(ingen.  II 

In  fine : 

©etrnitt  bnb  bolenbt  auff  bag  tanfent  fnnff  Unn-ll 
bitrt  bnb  fei|&  bnb  biet^igft  fadanff  ben  ||  anbemtag 
beg  Siennerg.  H 

%*  4to,  sine  loco,  title  one  leaf  +  six  unnumbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

We  regret  that  the  want  of  space  prevents  us  from 
describing  this  curious  parody.  It  strictly  belongs, 
however,  to  a  Bibliotheca  Africana. 

Direct  references:  r  F.  Denis,  Le  Monde  enchanti,  page  3as- 
3  Ternaux,  Bibliotheque  Africaine,  — . 
1  Graesse,  Vol.  IV,  p.ige  171. 
V  Bibliotheca  Barloiviana,  page  I  a. 


MiMititiriMMaalaMaHiHiaMI 


^      Bibliotheca  Americana.  419 

270.    ANONYMOUS— Recto  of  the  frst  leaf :  \  ^\0, 

$n  eccl'ia  bolo  ii«q  berllta  fenfu  tneo  loqui : 
bt  II  aliog  inftrua^  ^aul?  II  j^me  cot?  xiiij.  capitc.  II 

gOtttma  cWtiat-  II  na :  mag  cierta  g 
blraDicra  pa  gltc  fin  etutil  11  ci5  g  letras :  en  q  ft 
cOtiene  el  catecifmo  o  in  ||  formacia  pa  inliios  c5 
toUo  lo  principal  g  ||  necclfari^  q  cl  xj^iano  Ueuc 
faber  g  obrar.  ||  • 

C  SmpreWa  en  liHexieo  pot  ntitiatio  Tiel  lleiierl= 
Trimmo  fe-llfior  30fi  frag  5uan  OTumarraBa:  primer 
obifpo  tie  IBexico.  II 

Colophon  : 

€  a  gloria  tre  Mu  d)rifto  g  tie  fu  benUillta 
matire:  aquife  aeaba  lo  aftetiitjo  al  catt)eci^mo  porjl 
Hoetrina  mas  facil  para  loss  intiiojs  menos  enten  || 
tiil!0»  g  mas  rutiosig  negros.  i£l  qual  fuell  im= 
preffo  en  la  mug  leal  g  gran  ciutati  Ulie  iHeiito 
por  mantratio  t\  reue-  II  rentiiffimo  feiior  tio  frag 
$uan  II  fumarraga :  primer  obifpo  ^  ||  fBexico.  Bel 
cofeio  «  fu  II  Hflageftab,  &c.  acato  II  it  18  imprimir 
e  fin  ^l  II  afto  B  mil  x  quinie  II  tos  g  quaren-  II  ta  g 
fegst  II  ailois.  II 

**  4to,   signatures  in  eights,  except  k,  which  is  in  four ;  sixty 
unnumbered  leaves. 

(Private  Libiary,  Mexico.) 


271.    HONTER  (J.)—"  Rudimenta  cosmographica  .  Ti- 
guriy  apud  Froschoverum,   1 546,  in-8,  cartes  grav.  sur 

boiS.  (Walckenaer  Catalogue'.) 


'  Page  176,  No.  ai8a. 


420  Bihliotheca  Americana. 

I  54-^'  27  2.    ENCISO  {M.  DE)— Under  a  large  sphere  held  by  a  band: 

""^^"^    (E  ^uma  tit  geograptia  ^  trata  tie  totiajs  ll  lass 
pattitrasJ  g  protiincias  ticl  munUo  :  tn  II  efpccial  tie 
j  las  intiia»  .  s  trata  largam«*te  II  Uel  arte  tiel  matear 

ifltamente  ca  la  ef  II  pera  en  romace :  eon  el  reglmis 
V  ento  II  tiel  Sol  g  trel  norte :  agora  nueua  ||  mente  en= 

f  mentiatia  Tie  algus  ||  nos  tiefeetosi  que  tenia  II  en  la 

;  impremon  paffatia.  II  Hft  .  30  .  ilbi. 

In  fine : 

. . .  fue  impreffa  enla  mug  noftle  r  mug  leal  ciu= 
tiati  Tie  S»euiUa  en  ||  cafa  tie  Entires  tie  turgor :  en 
el  afto  tie  la  encarnacion  tie  ntieftro  Mor  Je=  II  fu 
orijrifto  tie  mil  t  quinientos  z  quarenta  r  fegs  affos.  || 

**  Folio;  title  one  leaf -J- seventy  numbered  leaves,  the  last  ten 
wrongly  numbered. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

Diricl  rtftrencts!  f  Rich,  No.  i6. 

J  Ternaux,  No.  53. 

(  Bibtiotheca  Browniana,  page  23,  No.  78. 

273*    ^OCy^^ZJ  (JACSiUES)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 
PARAPHRASE 

DE    L' ASTRO- 
LABE. 

'  Les  Principes  de  Geometric, 
La  Sphere, 

L'Aftrolabe,   ou,  declaration 
contenant  \       des  chofes  celeftes, 

Le  Miroir  du  Monde,  ou, 
expofition  des  parties  de 
la  terre. 


*  The  date  of  1 546  ascribed  by  Meusel  Diaz  de  la  Callk's  Memorial y  Noticiat 
(Vol.  Ill,  Part  I,  p.  335),  and  by  Pinker-  dtl  Imperio  de  las  Indiat,  viz.:  1546,  is 
TON   {foyagei,yol.  vii,  p.  106)  to  Juan     erroneous.     It  should  read  1646. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 

Then  vignette,  and : 

A    LVON,    PAR   JEAN    DE    TOVRNES  ||  M.D.XLVI.|| 


421 


**  8vo,  title  one  leaf  4*  seven  unnumbered  leaves  +  one  hundred 
and  eighty-seven  pages.     Text  in  talics. 

(Imperial  Library,  Paris.) 

See  the  passage  on  page  155. 

"  Telle  eft  ta  I'efcription  des  parties  du  mode  felon  le  tres  excellent 
Ptolomee  i^  ies  autres  ancies  Geographes:  depuis  lefquels  ne Peft  gueres 
trouv'e  terre  diile  confine^'  tant  de^a  qH  de  la  PequinoHial  excepte  une 
appelee  Amirique,  de  la  quelle  ne  foinmes  encore  bien  afleures ;  di'Iftes 
plufieurs  lefquelles  je  tais  a  caufe  de  briefvete.  L'Amerique  {la  quelle 
eft  appelee  PAmeque  !  F)  te  decrirai  Juccinliement,  n^ayant  egard  a  torn 
ceulx  qui  ont  navige  ^  pour  le  jouriPhuy  navigent  a  intention  feulement 
de  traftiquer  ou  gaigner,  et  d'icelle  parlent  obfcurement  tellement,  qu'il 
fault  prefque  deviner  ce  que  par  leurs  fonges  veulent  dire,  i^c." 

Direct  reference  !  Brunet,  Vol.  ii,  col.  1 3 14. 


1546. 


274.     BIONDO  {M.  yi.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

DE    FENTIS   ET   NAVIGA-\\ 
TIONE,  LIBELLVSllAVTTORE  michaele|| 

ANGELO  BLONDOllINQVO  N  A  V  I  G  A- 
TIONIS   VTILIS-llSIMA  CONTINETVR  DOC- 

TRiNA  CVM  II  Pixide  nouo^  &'  diligenti  exam- 
ine\\  uentorum,  et  tempeftatum.  \\  CVM  AC- 
CVRANTISSIMA  DESCRIPTIONE\\ 
diftantiae  locorum  interni  maris,  &  Oceani, 
a  Gadibus  ad  ||  nouum  orbem,  vtique  valde 
necefTaria,  Nam  ||feruantes  dodrinam  hanc, 
cum  citius  |1  turn  fecurius  vtrunc^  mare  |1 
transfretabunt.  11  opus  recentissmvm.  || 


--•T?J"*.'lwn*ii  Ji|pup*^)uji  4^— 


422  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  C4-6*        Then  a  woodcut  and  : 

Cum  Priuilegio  Summi  Pontificis  atq:  IlluJlriJfimi\\Senatus 

Venetiarum  in  Decennium,  \\ 
Colophon  : 

Fenetijs  Apud  Cominum    de  ||  Tridino    Montisferrati  \\ 

M  .  D  .  XLVI.  II 

*^*  4to,  eighteen  numbered  leaves.  Text  in  italics.  On  the 
verso  of  leaf  5,  on  recto  of  leaf  6,  and  on  recto  of  leaf  7, 
wood-cut  diagrams  showing  the  cardinal  points.  On  the 
recto  of  leaf  16  begins:  De  nauigatione  oceani  ad  noui 
orbem.     Cap.  xxv. 

(British  Museum.) 

Michael  Angelo  Biondo  or  Blondus  was  born  at 
Venice  in  1497,  and  died  about  the  year  1560.  He 
was  a  great  physician',  but  as  a  poet  "  poco  stimate  al 
suo  tempo,  e  meno  ancora  nel  nostro\" 

I  547.  275*    FORDONE  {B.)— Within  a  border: 

ISOLARIO||dibenedetto  BORDONE||Nel 

qual  {1  ragiona  di  tutte  I'lfole  del  mondo,|| 
con  li  lor  nomi  antichi  &  moderni,  hif-  I 

torie,  II  fauole,  &  modi  del  loro  viuere,  &  in 
qual  II  parte  del  mare  ftanno,  &  in  qual 
pa-  II  rallelo  &  clima  giaciono.  Ri- 11  coreto, 
&  di  Nuouo  II  riftampato.  || 

CON  iL  BREVE  DEL  PAPA  ||  Et  gratia  &  pri- 
uilegio della  Iluftrifli- 1|  ma  Signoria  di  Ve- 
netia  co-  ||  me  in  quelli  appare.  || 

Colophon  : 

In   Vinegia    ad   inftantia,  &  fpefe  del 

'  Vanoer  Linden,  de   Scriptis  Mcdkis         '  Apostolo    Zeno,    apud    Fontanini, 
(edit.  1 651),  gvo,  p.  456.  Vol.  11,  p.  413. 


\ 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


423 


Nobile  huomo  | 
M  .  D  .  XLVII 


M  .  Federico  Torefano.     1547. 


**  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  three  unnumbered  leaves  +  seventy- 
four  numbered  leaves  ■\-  six  leaves  for  three  double  maps,  + 
one  hundred  and  eight  small  maps  in  the  text. 

(Private  Libr.,  Providence,  and  Harvard  Coll.  Libr. ) 


Direct  rtftrencei  i 


Bihliolhtca  Grenvilliana,  Part  ii,  page  57. 
Bibliotheca  Brotvniana,  page  43,  No.  79. 
Steveiti'  American  Bihiiogr, ,  page  41. 
Crevenna  Catalogue,  Vol.  v,  page  26. 


276.     ANONYMOUS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

Oluicflq)  pc  tcguia  fecuti  fucrit :  pax  fup  iUoia  x 
mifericottiia  tici .  Paul?  atr  gal .  b|  capitu  .  iiegla 
cijriftiana  treue :  pa  ortiettar  la  bina  g  !po  ticl  x^U 
ano  (i  fc  qiere  faluat  g  tenet  fu  alma  tiifpuefta :  pa 
%  ifefuxpo  more  en  ella  .  Jmpteffa  por  mUtiatio  trel 
reuetentriffimo  feftor  li8  frag  itua  cumatraga,  i)ri= 
mer  obifpo  ^e  JBexico  .  Bel  confejo  tre  fu  iWas 
geftalJ  ^c. 

Colophon : 

([  E  gloria  g  loor  tre  la  fnKflma  trinitratr  g  tie  la 
faeratiffima  r  immaculata  birgJ  faneta  iiflaria  fes 
nece  g  acata  efta  tioctrina  tre  loss  proficiftes  i  q  trata 
5  la  regla  g  bitra  xpiana :  c6  la  forma  tre  la  oracid 
mStal :  g  aparejo  ^  tien  morir.  jFue  impref fa  en 
la  grantre  g  mug  leal  eiutratr  tre  iiJlexico  por  mans 
tratro  M  reuerltriffimo  Mor  tre  frag  $ua  pumarraga 
pmer  ob^o  S  Ittexico.  Bel  cafejo  19  fu  mageftatr  ^c. 
a  qui^  por  la  cagregacia  tre  losi  feftores  obpos  fue 
cometitra  la  copilacia  g  examS  r  impreffia  Bella, 
acabofe  U  imprimir  t  fin  M  meg  tre  enero  51  afto 
tie  mill  g  quiniHos  g  quarenta  g  fiete  aftos. 

%*  4to,  one  hundred  and  sixteen   unnumbered  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  Mexico.) 


1 


424  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  ^4.7,  277.    XERES  (F.  DE)—fVilhin  a  border: 

C0ni)m|la  >el  Peru* 

lie  la  conqulfta  Ucl  |Jcru  r  pcouincia  ncl  <!ruKo  Ua|| 
matia  la  nueua  OTaftilla.  atontiuiftatra  por  ,lfran-|j 
clfco  pifarro  :  capitan  tre  la.  3.  ^^  <2t.  ^.  He" 
iSmpe-  II  ratroc  nucftto  fcftor.  iSmijialro  a  fu  mas 
grstati  pot  II  jfranclfro  tie  Xerej  natural  He  la  mug 
nol)le  i>  leal  II  ciutiati  tic  g)euilla :  fectetatlo  tiel 
foiJte  tiici)o  rapi-  II  tan  en  totia»  lajs  prouincias  r 
conqulfta  tie  la  nuc-  ua  ittaftilla :  )}  bno  tie  Iob  prU 
meros  conqtniftatio-  II  res  tiella.  II 

C  jFue  bifta  jj  eraminatia  efta  obra  por  mans 
tiatio  II  tie  I08  feftores  finquifitioresi.  II 

Colophon :  ^^ 

^Ji  gluria  he  pi00  t) 
W  In  i»ir0<rn  •*  n 

iHJlaria  fe  acabo  el  prefente  traetatio  llamatio  Ea 
con-Huifta  tiel  ^eru.  jFue  $mprefo  en  ^alas 
maneallpor  Juan  tie  Junta:  acabo  St  a  cinco  tiiasll 
tief  mes  tie  Julio  afto  tiel  nafcimien  llto  tie  nueftro 
fenor  Jefu  OTttifto  II  tie  lillil  r  aauinientos  r  II  quas 
rentar  fie- lite  aftosi.:.!! 

\*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  twenty-one  numbered  leaves. 

(Private  Libr.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

Direct  references :  T  Ternaux,  page  I  a,  No.  54. 
■j  Brunet,  Vol.  IV,  col.  299. 
(  Bibliotheca  Broxoniana,  page  23,  No.  81. 


Bibliotheca  Americana,  415 

278.    OVIEDO  (G.  DE)— Within  an  ornamented  bordir  :  I  ^4'7' 


Then  the  double-headed  eagle  escutcheon,  and  : 

lais  ^ntiiafit  agota  nueuamente  im 
preffa  correBltia  g  emantiatra. 

1547- 
^  ^  con  la  conquifta  trel  ^etu  ««^ 

♦^*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  three  unnumbered  leaves  +  one  hun- 
dred and  ninety-seven  numbered  leaves.  Woodcut  of  a  coat- 
of-arms  of  Columbus  on  fol.  x. 

(Private  L'ibrar.,  New  York  and  Providence.) 

Second  edition  of  our  No.  207,  which  (as  the  title 
indicates)  is  frequently  found  bound  in  one  volume 
with  the  Xeres  of  1547. 


Dirtct  riftrtneti  i 


Antonio,  Bibtiothtca  Hhpan.  Nova,  Vol.  i,  page  555. 

Meuscl,  Bit  ''"tieca  Historica,  Vol.  ni,  Part  i,  page  2i6. 

Rich,  page  6,  No.  17. 

Ternaux,  page  12,  No.  54. 

Bibliotheca  Browniana,  page  23,  No.  80, 


279.    FRISIUS  (sf  SCHONER— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

GEMMA  PHRYsivs||De  PrincipUS  |1  ASTRONOMIAE 
ET II  cosMOGRAPHiAE,  DEQVE  vsv  ||  Globi  Coftnographlci  ab 
eodem  edit!.  ||  de  Orbis  diuifione  &  Infulis,  rcbufq3  nuper  inuen- 
tis.  II  EivsDEM  De  Annuli  Aftronomici  vfu.  ||  ioannis  schoneri  || 
De  vfv  Globi  Aftriferi  opufculum.  || 

Then  mounted  sphere  within  a  frame,  below  which : 
ANTVERPi-ffi,  II  In  aedibus  loan.  Steelfii.  Anno  ||  m.d.xlviii.  || 

Second  title-page,  on  the  recto  of  unnumbered  leaf  73: 
VSVS  Annuli  Aftro-||  nomici  gemma  ||  frisio  mathemat- 
ico  II  Authore.  || 

54 


1548. 


.26  Bibliotheca  Americana.  >•- 

I  1:48.        Woodcut,  hand  holding  astronomical  rings,  then : 
^  ANTVERPi^,  In  sdibus  loannis  Steelfii.  ||  m.d.xlviii.  \\ 

Third  title-page  on  recto  of  unnumbered  leaf  89 : 
lOANNIS  SCHONERI  |1  de  vsv  globi  astriferi  1|  Opuf- 

culum.  II 

Woodcut,  mounted  sphere,  below  which  :  m.d.xlviii: 

Colophon : 

Typis  loan.  Graphei  Anno  a  Chrifto  hu- 1|  manae  falutis  Au- 

thore  nato,  jj  m.d.xlviii.  |1 

*  *  Sm.  8vo,  title-page  three  leavts  +  one  hundred  and  sixteen 
numbered    leaves  +  one    unnumbered   leaf.      Woodcuts    on 

recto  of  83,  84,  85,  and  verso   of  86.  „     v    1,  ^ 

■"       ^  (Private  Library,  New  York.) 

See,  especially,  on  leaves  69-72,  chapter  xxx,  ''De 
America:  America  ab  inuentore  Americo  Vesputio  no- 
men  habet,  alii  Bresiliam  vocat    . .  "  &c. 

280.    ANONYMO  US— Termination  of  the  last  leaf. 

jf ue  itnpffa  e  efta  mug  leal  ciutiati  ^ 

mexico  t  cala  «  jua  patios  por  watjatio  Bl  reuetc= 
Tiimmo  fcfiot  tio  frag  jua  pumaraga  primer  otjio 
tre  iWexico  .  P  porq  enla  cosregacia  q  los  feftores 
^  otpos  tubierS  Je  ortieno  q  fe  l)i|(effen  tios  Hoctrinas : 

bua  breue  g  ctra  larga:  g  la  breue  es  la  q  el  ano 
tie .  im  .  TJ .  xlbj .  fe  imprimio  .  liilantia  fu  fefioria 
reuereUimma  q  la  otra  grantie  pueTie  fer  efta;  pa 
^claracion  tje  la  otra  pequefta .  ^cabofe  tie  imprimir 
a  xbii .  tiias  tjel  mes  tie  enero .  ^fto  ^ .  IE .  ti .  xlbUi . 
aftos.  (E  S)Oli  ©eo  Ijonor  r  gloria  in  feeula  fecu= 
loril .  ^ml . 

*  *  4to,  one  hundred  and  fifty-four  numbered  le&ves  in  a  complete 
*    copy  (the  first  nine  leaves  are  wanting  in  the  present) ;  printed 

in  two  columns. 

(Private  Library,  Mexico.) 

First  work  with  the  imprint  of  Juan  Pablos. 


.1 


-1 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 
281.    MEDINA  (P.  DE)— Recto  of  the  second  leaf: 


427 


1548. 


Libro  de  grandezas  y  cofas  men 

morables  de  Efpafia  .  Agora  de  nueuo 
hecho  y  copilado  por  el  1|  Maeftro  Pedro 
de  Medina  vezino  de  Seuilla  .  Dirigi||do 
al  ferenifTimo  y  muy  efclarecido  ||  Seiior 
don  Philipe  Principe  de  ||  Efpafia  &c .  Nu- 
eftro  II  Sefior.  || 

Then  escutcheon  of  Spain,  and : 

M  .  D  .  xlviii . 


**  Folio. 


(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

We  find  this  title  dated  1548,  in  the  edition  of  the 
same  work  printed  at  Alcala  de  Henares,  by  Pedro  de 
Robles  and  Juan  de  Villanueva,  in  1 566'.  The  Biblio- 
theca Grenvilliana'-  contains  an  edition  of  1549,  and, 
leaving  aside  that  of  1543,  mentioned  by  Antonio', 
which  is  an  impossibility  (see,  supra,  note  on  page  391), 
we  believe  that  the  above  reproduces  the  text  of  the 
title  of  an  edition  which  may  bear  the  date  of  1548  on 
the  title-page,  and  1549  in  the  colophon.  We  must 
say,  however,  that  this  curious  reproduction  belongs  to 
the  edition  of  1566,  as  the  privilege  of  the  latter  date 
is  on  the  verso.  We  also  suppose  that  the  edition  of 
1 548  contains  the  interesting  chapter  "  h  .j  .  de  la  villa  y 
puerto  depalos"  which  relates  the  expedition  of  Colum- 
bus, and  exhibits  a  map  borrowed  from  the  Arte  de  Nav- 
egar  of  the  same  author,     (No.  266.) 


'  Folio,  I  +  1  +  I  +  7  +  clxxxvii  U. 
*  Vol.  I,  page  45*. 


»  Bibliotheca   Hispana   Nova,    Vol.    ii, 
page  215. 


4^8  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  Czj.8.  282.    MENDOZA[A.  DE)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

Then  double-headed  eagle  escutcheon,  and : 

(©rtrenacaias  g  copila  ll  cion  tie  leges :  i)ecta!8  por 
el  mug  $lluftre  feftor  tion  auto- Unto  tl  metroja 
miforeg  g  (©ouetnaljor  trefta  nueua  lEfpa  II  fta :  g 
iPrefitrete  tjela  autrieeia  Heal  q  en  ella  refitie:  g 
por  lO!8  II  Mores!  ©gtrores  ^  la  tiiei)a  autiiecia :  pa 
la  tula  gouerna  ||  eio  g  eftilo  19  los  ofieiales  Jella. 
afto  5  IE  .  ti .  xlbiij .  II 

Colophon : 

E  gloria  g  i)Ottrra  Ire  nue  ||  ftro  fefior  IFefu  x^o 
aqui  fe  acatan  las  ©rtienalleas  &  eopilacion  tre 
leges  ttueuamete  ortJhia  ||  tras  g  copilaljas  por  el 
tniig  Jlluftre  feftorlltio  Antonio  ^  JEetiopa  ©iforeg 
g  #0 II  ueruaTior  tiefta  nueua  efpafia :  g  ^refllltiete 
tela  aulrieeia  laeal  que  en  ella  re  II  fitre :  g  por  los 
fefiores  ©gtrojires:  pa  la  tuena  gouernaeifi  g|| 
eftilo  tre  los  oficiales  »lla  .  ^Ilfuero  por  fu  matro 
impref  II  fas  e  la  mug  leal  g  gra  ciu  II  tratr  IS  Hflexico 
e  eafa  II  t  itua  patios :  aca  II  taronfe  5  im^mir  i|  a 
xxij .  trias  Bl  II  mes  B  mar  ll  ?o  ^  .  IE .  Ilir .  xlbiij .  || 
aflos .  II 

\*  Folio,  forty-eight  numbered  leaves,  the  forty-sixth  errone- 
ously marked  xlv ;  marginal  references  in  very  small  black 
letter ;  the  coat-of-arms  on  the  title  is  repeated  on  the  recto 
of  the  forty-seventh  leaf. 

(Private  Library,  Mexico.) 

Contains :  Ordenanzas  para  Escribanos,  Relatores^  Ab- 
ogados^  ProcuradoreSy  Recepiores,  Porteros  y  Receptores  de 
las  penasy  Alguaziles,  Carceieros,  Itjterpreles,  and  Orde- 
nanzas de  la  Audiencia  dadas  por  el  Emperador  en  Madril 
{sic)  a  11  de  Abril  de  1528. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  429 

283.    APIANUS  {P.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  I  54"' 

^  Libro  delallCOSMOGRAPHIAllDe  Pedro 
Apiano,  el  qual  trata  la  defcripcion  del  Mun-  ||  do,  y  fus  partes, 
por  muy  claro  y  Undo  artificio  augmeta-  ||  do  por  el  dodtiffimo 
varon  Gemma  Frifio,  doaor  en  Me  ||  decina,  y  Mathematico 
excellentiffimo  :  con  otros  |1  dos  libros  del  dicho  Gemma,  de  la 
materia  mefma.  ||  Agora  nueuamete  traduzidos  en  Romace  Cal- 
tellano.  || 

Then  Globe,  and  below  : 

M.D.XLViii.  II  Vendefe  en  Enveres  en  cafa  de  Gregorio  Bontio 
enel  ||  efcudo  de  Bafilea.     Cum  Gratia  &  Priuilegio.  || 

**  Sm.  4to,  title  one  leaf  +  one  unnumbered  leaf -|- sixty-eight 
folioed  leaves  +  table  in  two  leaves,  on  verso  of  which  is  a 
vignette,  with  the  motto  :  B®°  diligere  pa  ||  rentes,  prima 
NATVRVE  LEX.  VA.  MAX.  LIB.  V.  Signature  k  is  a  folding  wood- 
cut map ;  five  revolving  diagrams. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

The  account  of  America  is  on  the  recto  of  fol.  34. 

Direct  references :  (  Rich,  No.  20. 

(  Stevens'  American  Bibtiogr.,  page  12. 


284.  "Augufti  (Hieronymi  Oliverii,' Po^/^  Lau- 
reati)  de  Imperio  Romano  Liber,  de  Partitione  Orbis 
Libri  IV  .  et  Epigrammata,  woodcut  portrait  of  Charles 
V  {full-length)  4to  .  Aug  .  Find.  1548. 

"The  Poem  de  Partitione  Orbis  is  very  interefting  to  the 
American  coUedtor.' 

(Libri  Catalogue^.) 

The  only  notice  we  could  find  of  this  Poet  Laureate 
is  the  following,  which  we  borrow  from  Jocher*,  who 
himself  copied  it  from  Koenig' : 

"  Gebohren  zu  Bergamo  1509,  und  Starb  1558." 

'  For  1861,  p.  24,  No.  212.  '  Bibliotheca   Vetus  et   Nova;  Altdorf, 

•  Allgem.  Gelehrt.  Lex.,  Vol.  i,  col.  646.     fol.,  1678. 


4<jo  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  CIaS.  285.    PTOLEMr-MATTIOLO— Within  a  border: 

— ^PTOLEMEO^ 

LA  GEOGRAFIA||Di  clavdio  ptolemeo|| 
ALEssANDRiNO,  ||  Coft  ulcuni  comefiH  &  aggi- 
untefat  |1  teui  da  Sebafiiano  munflero  Ala  || 
manno,  Con  le  tauole  non  folamente  |1  antiche 
&'  moderm  folite  di  Jlapari  1|  yf,  ma  altre 
nuoue  aggiuenteui  di  Me  \\fer  lacopo  Gaflaldo 
Piamotep  cofi  H  mographo^  ridotta  in  uolgare 
Italia  \\no  da  M ,Pietro  Andrea  Mati\\tiolo 
Senefe    medico    Excelletiffimo  \\  con    l'aggi- 

VINTA  d'  INFINITI  1|  nomi  moderni,  di  Citta^  Prouincie,  Caf- 
tella^  et  ||  altri  /uoghi,  fatta  cS  grandijjtma  diligenza  ||  da  ejfo  Mefer 
lacopo  Gajialdo^  il  che  in  ||  nijfun  altro  Ptolemeo  ft  ritroua  .  Opera 
ueramente  non  meno  utile  ||  che  nicejfaria  .  \\  In  Fenetia,  per  Gioa  . 
Baptijia  Pedrezano  .  \\  Co' I  priuilegio  delP  Illujirifs  ,  Senato  Feneto 
per  Anni ;.  ||  M  .  D  .  XLVIII  || 

Colophon  : 

In  Venetia,  ad  Inftancia  di  mefler  Giouabattifta  Pedrezano  || 

libraro  al  fegno  della  Torre  a  pie  del  ponte  di  Rialto .  ||  Stampato 

per  Nicolo  Bafcarini  nel  Anno  del  ||  Signore.  1547,  del  mefe  di 

Ottobre.  II 

*  *  8vo,  title  one  leaf  +  unnumbered  leaf  with  woodcut  of  an 
astronomer  +  six  unnumbered  leaves  +  leaves  numbered  i- 
214  +  one  leaf  containing  register,  and  colophon  on  the  recto 
4-  one  blank  4-  sixty  double  leaves,  each  containing  a  map  and 
descriptions  4-  sixty-four  unnumbered  leaves  for  table.  At 
fol.  54  begins  the  account,  della  terra  nvova.  On  the  verso 
a  map  of  S.  America,  castill  del  org.  Fol.  55,  della  nova 
HisPANiA ;  verso  the  map.  Fol.  56,  della  terra  nova  del 
Bacalos;  verso  the  map.  Fol,  57,  dell'  isola  cvba  nuoua; 
verso  the  map.  Fol.  58,  dell'  isola  spagnola  ;  verso  the 
map.     Fol.  59,  dell' vniversale  nuoua. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


431 


"  Mais  I  partir  dc  1 548  (voyez  la  carte  qu'on  trouve  dans  le  Ptol- 
emec  de  Mattiolo)  toutes  les  cartes  que  j'ai  examinees  representent 
I'Amerique  meridionale  comme  un  continent  ....  Ainsi  done,  ce 
ne  fut  que  quarante-huit  ans  apres  la  decouverte  du  Bresil  que  les 
cosmographes,  abandonnant  la  theorie  systematique  des  anciens,  ont 
en  general  figure  dans  leurs  carte  I'Amerique  meridionale  comme  un 

continent  .  .  .  ." 

(Santarim'.) 


Direct  referencei, 


Fabricius,  Biblioth.  Grace,  lib.  iv,  page  41 3. 
Raidel,  Comment,  de  CI.  Ptol.,  page  69. 
A.  Zeno,  apud  Fontanini,  Vol.  11,  page  277. 
Walckcnaer  Catalogue,  page  184,  No.  2159. 
Bibliotheca  Barlotuiana,  page  18. 


1548. 


286.    POR TUGUESE  LAffS—  Under  an  escutcheon  of  Portugal : 

IrenafSes  Ira  fatcnJia .  Jtt .  ©  .  3B .  ilbitj . 

Colophon : 

tia  fa^entja  trel  reg  noffo  fen^or.  dFoB  imprcffo  || 
pet  autotitiatre  r  pteuilegio  tjc  fua  aitna  II  efta  fe= 
gutia  be^:  em  a  citiatie «  Hixijoallem  cafaTre  %txvxU 
galtartiellaog .  xxb .  trias  tjo  mcs  tJCIUTeuctegro  tie 
mil  r||(iuiu!)entO!3  rljquateta  r  oBtol|annos.||  4fe  II 

*  *  Folio  ;  title  one  leaf  +  seven  unnumbered  leaves,  -f-  text  from 
i_cxvj  +  unnumbered  leaf  containing  the  above  colophon  + 
one  leaf  for  register  +  one  blank  +  thirty-five  unnumbered 
leaves,  nearly  all  printed  on  the  recto  only. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

The  present  contains  twenty-seven  tracts  or  hand- 
bills relating  to  the  trade  of  Portugal  with  Brazil  and 
the  colonies. 


"  Bulletin  de  la  Sociiti  de  Geogr.  for  May,  1847. 


432  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1548.  287.    HONTER(J.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf  : 

RVDIMEN-  II  TORUM   cosMOGRAPHico-  ||  rum   loan.   Honteri 

Coronenfts   I'thri   III   cum  \\  tabellis  Geographicis   elegantijftmis .  \\  De 
uariarum  rerum  nomenclaturis  per  ||  claffes,  liber  I  .  || 

Then  woodcut,  and : 

TiGVRi  APVD  FROSCHO-  ||  ucrum  .  Anno  m.d.xlviii. 

Then  after  leaf  31  : 

CIRCVLI    SPHAERAE  ||  CVM    V,    ZONIS.  || 

♦  *  Sm.  8vo,  title  one  leaf  +  twenty-nine  unnumbered  leaves  + 
*  two  blank  leaves  +  one  leaf  for  a  title  +  twenty-five  leaves 
for  thirteen  maps.  The  first  of  these  bears  the  inscription 
VNivERSALis  cosMOGRAPHiA,  and  at  the  bottom:  tigvri,  a 
monogram  composed  of  the  letters  H.  V  E.,  and  the  date 
M.D.XL.VI.  In  this  map  there  is,  on  the  west,  a  continent 
named  America,  and  a  narrow  strip,  separated  from  the  latter, 
with  the  word  Parias. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

Humboldt  seems  to  think'  that  the  little  atlas  is  a 
different  work,  sometimes  bound  with  Honter's  Cosmog- 
raphia;  yet  the  words  ''cum  tabellis  Geographicis"  imply 
that  the  maps  are  part  of  the  original  work,  ^ye  have 
before  us  another  edition  (Antwerp,  1552),  which  con- 
tains, also,  but  with  a  new  set  of  signatures,  the  circvli 
SPHAERAE.  In  this,  the  first  map  lacks  the  date,  mono- 
gram and  place  where  it  was  printed. 

"John  Honter  ein  evangelifcher  Theologus,  von  Cronftadt  aus 
Siebenbiirgen,  ftudirte  zu  Cracau  und  Bafel,  fuhrte  in  feinem  Vater- 
lande  die  Reformation,  und  ftarb  1549." 

(Jocher'.) 


Direct  referencei :  [  Pinelo-Barcia,  col.  1319. 

Maittaire,  Annales  Tyfogr.,  Vol.  11,  Part  i,  page  384. 
Bibliotheca  Heberiana,  Part  1,  No.  3492. 
Bibliotheca  Barloiuiana,  page  17. 


•  Examen  Critique,  Vol  il,  p.  17.  1 695,  on  the  authority  of  Staeavolski 

»  Atlgem.  Gelehrt.  Lexic,  Vol.  iii,  col      and  Czwittingir. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  433 

288.  "oRDiNATiONES  legumquc  collectiones  pro  1549* 
conventu  juridico  mexicano.  Mexici,per  Joannem  Paulum  =^== 
Brissensem,  1 549,  in  -  fol. 

"  C'est  a  tort  que  ce  livre  rarissime  a  passe  pour  etre 
le  premier  qui  ait  ete  imprime  a  Mexico,"  &c.,  &c. 

(Brunet'  and  Gkauss*.) 

The  question  in  regard  to  this  title  is  not  so  much 
whether  it  represents  the  first  book  printed  in  Mexico, 
as  whether  it  ever  was  printed  at  all,  anywhere.  The 
title  as  above  given  would  imply  the  existence  of  such 
a  work  printed  in  Latin,  and  in  the  year  1 549.  We  are 
inclined  to  believe  that  such  a  work  has  never  been  seen, 
and  does  not  exist. 

The  first  Latin  title  of  the  above  alleged  ordinances 
is  to  be  found  in  Eguiara' ;  but  that  prolix  bibliogra- 
pher does  not  state  that  he  ever  saw  the  work ;  he  only 
quotes  it  on  the  authority  of  Pinelo.  As  the  Epitome 
of  Leon  Pinelo  does  not  contain  a  single  line  referring 
to  such  a  collection  of  ordinances,  it  is  in  Barcia's  edi- 
tion that  we  must  search  for  Eguiara's  prototype.  Now, 
in  Pinelo-Barcia*  we  only  find  the  following: 

"Ordenattfas,  Recopilacion  de  Leies,  para  el  Govierno  de  la  Audi- 
encia  de  Mexico,  imp.  Mexico,  1545,  fol." 

Had  not  Eguiara  given  Pinelo  as  his  authority,  we 
might  be  led  to  believe  that  he  had  seen  the  work ;  but, 
in  view  of  this  assertion,  we  must  infer  that  his  title  is 
only  a  Latin  translation  of  Barcia's,  with  additions  of 
his  own,  and  a  mistake  of  the  printer  or  copyist. 

Beristain  de  Souza  says',  in  speaking  of  Mendoza: 
"  Deben  atribuirsele  tambien  :  Ordenanzas  y  Coleccion 
de  leyes  para  el  govierno  de  la  Audiencia  de  Mexico. 


'  Manuel,  Vol.  iv,  col.  4o8. 

'  Tresor,  Vol.  v,  p.  37. 

*  Bibliotheca  Mexicana,  p.  211. 


*  Epitome,  1738,  Vol.  u,  col.  087. 
'  Bihlioteca  Hispana-^imericana   Sefttm- 
trional,  Vol.  11,  p.  292. 


55 


, 


434 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


I  C4.Q.    ^'"P-  ^S49>  ^°^'"     ^"*  ^^"^^  again  we  have  a  title  evi- 


dently  made  out  of  Barcia's  and  Eguiara's. 

The  N.  T.  Historical  Magazinef',  in  an  article  on  the 
First  Book  printed  in  Mexico,  quotes  the  same  Latin 
title,  but  on  the  authority  of  Falkenstein's  Geschichte  der 
Buchdruckerkunsf,  a  compilation  sumptuously  illustra- 
ted, but  inaccurate*. 

As  to  those  apocryphal  Ordinationes,  even  if  the  ear- 
liest of  the  two  dates  (1545,  apud  Barcia)  were  the  cor- 
rect one,  it  could  not  well  be  called  the  first  book 
printed  in  Mexico,  since  we  present  our  readers  with 
the  titles  of  not  less  than  seven  tangible  works  printed 
in  the  "city  of  the  Montezumas,"  before  1545.  Nor 
can  it  be  asserted  that  Juan  Pablos  was  imported 
by  the  Vice-Roy  for  the  purpose  of  printing  that  first 
book,  since  we  show  that  there  certainly  was  a  print- 
ing press  in  operation  in  Mexico,  at  least  as  early  as 
1540,  while  the  first  book,  as  yet  found,  which  bears  the 
imprint  of  Pabloa,  is  dated  1548  (see  our  No.  280). 

A  more  plausible  theory  is  that  the  Ordinationes  of 
Barcia,  Eguiara,  Brunei,  Falkenstein  and  Graesse  is 
only  the  above  No.  287.  We  can  find  no  traces  of  any 
digest  or  collection  of  laws,  intended  for  Mexico,  writ- 
ten in  any  other  language  than  the  Spanish.  Why 
should  there  have  been  an  exception  in  this  instance  ? 
If  so,  we  must  leave  aside  Eguiara's  title,  and  con- 
sider Barcia's  a  mere  abridgment  of  that  of  the  Orde- 
nanzas  0/1548.  M.  Icazbalceta  is  of  opinion  that  such 
is  actually  the  case — a  conclusion  which  we  were  not 
long  in  forming  the  moment  we  were  placed  in  pos- 
session of  the  latter  title. 


*  Vol.  IX,  page  44.  and  no  authority  is  quoted  for  it.    "Lom- 

'  Leipzig,  4to,  1840,  p.  329.  bardo"  and  "of  Brescia"  are  synonymous. 

'  For  instance,  Falkenstein  calls  tlie  Paoli  or  Pablos  sometimes  called  himself 

frst   Mexican    printer    "  Girolamo    Paolo  "  Lombardo,"  because  he  was  a  native  of 

Lombardo,   of    Brescia."     The    name    of  Brescia,  a  city  of  Lombardy,  just  as  he  fte- 

Girolamo  is  to  be  found  only  in  his  work,  quently  signs  •'  Bressano"  or  "  Brissensis." 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  435 

280.     BRAVO  {F.)— Within  a  woodcut  of  a  portico:  1^4-9' 

Qui  non  intrat  per  oftium  fed  ad  ||  cen- 
dit  aliunde  ille  fur  eft.  || 

Within  a  scroll : 

Veritas  et  vita  ego  fum  via  .  ioan  .  x  . 

Then : 

C  OPERA  ME  II  dicinalia,  in  qbus  ||  (5  plu- 
rima  extant  |  fcitu  medico  ne  .  ||  ceflaria 
in  .  4  .  ii .  \_sic\  di  ||  gefta,  qu^  pagina  jj  verfa 
cotinentur,  j]  Authore  Francis  ||  co  Brauo 
Orfume  ||  fi  dodore,  ac  Me  |1  xicano  med- 
ico. ||  1549-11 

(T  Mexici,  apud  Petrum  Ocharte.  ||  Cum 

priuilegio.  ||*  , 

*  *  Very  small  4to,  title  one  leaf  +  three  unnumbered  prelimi- 
nary leaves  -f  three  hundred  and  three  numbered  leaves ;  text 
in  black  letter,  many  woodcuts  of  plants,  &c. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

We  notice  a  dedication  to  the  Vice-Roy  ^'■Martina 
irriquio  Noue  hispania  dignissimo  Proregi ;"  a  letter  to  the 
same  vice-roy  from  '^Franciscus  Ceruantes  Salazarus  [sacra 
theologia  doctor)"  and  a  distich  from  one  Melchior  Tel- 
lez  i?)  These  names  indicate  that  the  date  of  1549  on 
the  title-page  is  a  mistake  of  the  printer.  Martin  En- 
riquez  was  Vice-Roy  of  New  Spain  from  November  5th, 
1568,  to  December  4th,  1580'.  Francisco  Cervantes 
Salazar  came  to  Mexico  only  in  1550,  where  shortly 
afterwards  he  was  made  Rector  of  the  University\     As 


*AHgncei    Medicinal    works    contain-  can  Pliysician.     1549.    Mexico,  at  Peter 

ing  very  many  things  which  a  physician  Ocharte's.     With  privilege, 

should  know.    Distributed  into  four  books,  '  Alaman,  Disertacionis  iobre  la  histor. 

contained  in  the  following  pages.    By  Fran-  de  la  Repuhl.  Mejic,  Vol.  11,  appendix, 

cis  Bravo,  of  Ossufta,  Doctor  and  Mexi-  »  Diccionario  uni-vcrs.  de  Histor.  y  Gtogr. 


43  6 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


1 549*  to  Pedro  Ocharte  he  is  believed  to  have  exercised  his 
1"*  In  Mexico  only  between  the  years  1563  and  1592. 
To  admit  a  transposition  of  figures  would  give  us  a 
date  fourteen  years  later  than  the  administration  of 
Enriquez,  who  is  addressed  in  the  dedication  as  still 
filling  the  position  of  vice-roy.  To  complete  the  last 
signature  there  should  be  a  leaf,  which  is  wanting  in  the 
present  copy.  It  may  be  that  this  contained  a  colophon 
with  the  correct  date.  But  as  the  date  on  the  title-page 
is  not  a  forgery,  we  insert  the  present  work  under  the 
year  1549. 


290.  wis^/j/ivo  (iv.  z)£)— "  Verdadera  y  copiofa  rela- 
cion  de  todo  lo  nuevamente  fucedido  en  los  reynos  y 
provincias  del  Peru  dende  la  ida  a  ellos  del  Virrey 
Blafco  Nunez  Vela  hafta  el  defbarato  y  muerte  de  Gon- 
zalo  Pizarro :  fegun  q"  lo  vio  y  efcrivio  Nicolas  de  Al- 
berino,  Florentin  al  beneficiado  Fernan  Suarez  vecino 
de  Sevilla,  &c." 

At  the  end  : 

"  Acabofe  la  prefente  obra  en  la  ciudad  de  Sevilla  a  2 
dias  de  Enero  de  1549.    En  cafa  de  Juan  de  Leon,  &c." 

*^*  Small  8vo,  eighty  leaves. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

The  present  is  only  a  manuscript,  the  original  of 
which  is  or  was  preserved  in  the  Imperial  Library  at 
Paris.  The  arrangement  and  colophon  indicate  that 
this  work  was  actually  printed ;  but  we  know  of  no 
printed  copies.     (See  our  Appendix.) 


Direct  reference  :  t  Catalogue  of  a  Collection  of  MSS.,  principally  in  Spanish,  relating  to 
)  America,  in  the  possession  of  0.  RicA;  London,  n.  d.,  8vo,  p.  25, 
(      No.  95. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 

2QI.     THOMAS  (fy.)— Within  a  border. 


437 


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common  U)cale»  II  t)olM  t1)ei  1)aue  ||  ten,  $f  noU)  ||  tc 
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ANNO  DOMI-  II NI.  M.  D.  H  XLIX.  Ij  J-  1| 

Colophon : 

Imprinted  at  london  ||  in   fletestrete   in||the    hovse 
OF  tho-  II  mas   Berthelet  .  1|  Cum  priuilegio  ad  impnmen-  |1  dum 

folum  .  II  ANNO  .  M.D  .  II  XLIX.  || 

*  *  4to,  title  one  leaf  +  two  hundred  and  sixteen  numbered  leaves. 

(King's  Library,  London.) 

We  insert  this  work  of  an  author  who  was  hanged 
and  quartered  at  Tyburn,  on  the  authority  of  Bishop 
Kennetf,  although  a  friend  reports  that  it  does  not  con- 
tain any  passage  or  passages  relating  to  America. 

2Q2.    GARiMBERTO  (,H.)-''?roh\em\  Natural!  e  Mo- 
rali.     Ven.  .549.  8vo."    ^^^^^ 

29 3*    ^^^^  OPUS— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

PROBLEMI II  NATVRALI,    E    1550. 

MORALI  II  DI    HIERONIMO    GARIMBERTO.  ||        = 

Con  gratia,  ^priuilegio  di  Papa\\  Paolo  III.  ^  dell'  Jl- 
lujlrijfima  \\  Signoria  di  Vinegia  \\per  anni  X  .  \\ 
Then  a  woodcut,  and  :  ^ 

IN     VINEGIA  II  NELLA     BOTTEGA     D  ERASMO  || 

DI    VICENZO    VALGRISI.  H  M.    D.    L.  || 

'  Biblhth.  Amtr.  PrimorJ.,  p.  13.         '  Bibliothtca  Britannica,  Vol.  i,  col.  400. 


. 


438  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I^^O.         CohpboHS 

~=         IN     VINEGGIA  II  NELLA      BOTTEGA      d'eRASMO 
DI  II  VINCENZO    VALGRISI  .  ||  M  .  D  .  L  . 

%*  8vo,  title  one  leaf  +  two  hundred  and  thirty-nine  pages  + 
seven  leaves,  all  printed  in  Italics. 

(Britiih  Muieum.) 

"The  70th  Problem  (pp.  1 19-122)  it  most  interesting,  as  it  ex- 
plains the  reason  why,  at  the  discovery  of  America,  many  laws  and 
customs  were  found  similar  to  those  of  the  Old  World." 

(Libri  Catalogue'.) 

All  we  could  learn  concerning  this  Gerolamo  Garim- 
berto  is  that  he  was  a  native  of  Parma,  and  Bishop*  of 
Gallese'.  His  Problems  were  translated  into  French,  by 
Jean  Louveau*. 

Dirut  reftrtncttt  (  Fontanini,  Bibliottca,  Vol.  11,  page  316. 
(  BauNiT,  Vol.  II,  col.  i486. 


294.  MUNSTBR  (S£5.)— "  Cofmographei  oder  Befchrei- 
bung  aller  Lander,  Herrfchaften,  fiirnemften  Stetten, 
Gefchichten,  Gebrenchen,  Hantierungen,  etc.  Zum 
dritten  mal  trefflich  fere  gemerft  u.  gebeffert.  Baf.  H. 
Petri,  1550,  fol.,  1233  pages,  with  woodcuts. 

"  This  edition  is  the  best  for  the  admirers  of  ancient  good  wood- 
cuts, on  account  of  the  views  of  towns  being  added  to  it  for  the  first 
time.  It  contains  14  leaves  in  maps.  The  ist  edition  of  this  Ger- 
man original  appeared,  Bas.  H,  Petri,  1544,  fol.  [supra^.  That 
of  1 541,  mentioned  in  Aretin's  Lift.  Handb,  fiir  die  baier.  Gesch.  I. 
142,  is,  perhaps,  only  a  typographical  error,  instead  of  1544,  as  the 
author  says,  in  his  dedication  of  1544,  that  he  had  been  for  two 
years  before  occupied  with  this  work.  The  editions,  Bas.  1569,  '74, 
and  '78,  fol.,  have  26  maps,  but  bad  impressions  of  the  woodcuts. 


'  For  1861,  p.  30,  No.  27*.  *  A  city  of  Italy,  near  the  Tiber     See 

'  Apost.  Zeno,  apud  Fontanini,  Vol.  the  title  to  his  ^(V«,  overro  Fatti,  memora- 

II,   p.    307,   and,   we   believe,   Ughilli,  bili  di  atcuni  Papi }  Venice,  4to,  1567. 

Italia  Sacra,  Vol.  X,  col.  109.  *  Lyons,  8vo,  1559. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  439 

The  editions.  Bas.  1 592,  '98,  and  1614,  fol.,  contain  26  newly-drawn     I  5  5O. 

maps  and  several   new  woodcuts.     In  Latin,  by  the  author  himself,  g,, 

Bas.  15150,  fol.  [infra'\  (which,  in  the  goodness  of  the  woodcuts, 
resembles  the  German  edition  of  this  year).  In  the  edition,  Bas. 
1 57Z,  fol.,  several  passages,  displeasing  to  the  Roman  Catholics,  are 
omitted  (Crenii  Animadvv.  viii,  94,  sq.)  In  French,  by  Fr.  dc  Belle- 
forest,  Par.,  Sonnius,  1575,  fol.,  2  parts,  in  3  vols.,  with  fine  (but 
fewer)  woodcuts.     In  Italian,  col.  1575,  fol. 

"{:om\x\l  Hager's  Geogr.  Biichessaal,  i, -Jfj-l^o,     Wolursdorf  Re- 
ptrtor  der  Land-u.     Seekarttn  1,  63,  etc." 

(Ebmt'.) 


2Q  C,    ANONYMOUS— Rtcto  of  the  first  leaf: 

C  Uetltafit  Ijomlni  manet  In  etetnutn. 

Then  escutcheon  of  the  order  of  St.  Dominick,  and  : 

©  Partrina  rljriflicintt 

en  ISgua  iSfpaftola  g  Hftexicana :  t)eci)a  pot  ||  log 
relifilog  Tie  la  orUen  He  frto  JBominao  .  ||  Haora 
nueuam^te  corregilia  g  enmJTiatia  ,  afto  1550 .  || 

Colophon : 

OTon  preullegio  JmperlalllC  ^  gloria  g  alatanja 
tre  nlo  tetiemptor  Jefu  ||  x^o  g  tie  fu  tentiita  matirei 
a(iui  U  acata  la  tjeclaracia  Hela  tio  ||  ctrina  xjiiana 
en  ISgua  a?fpanola  g  iWexlcana:  g  una  coluna 
cotllrefpStje  aotra:  fentlcla  por  fentScia:  8  gratie 
btilitjatr  g  puecijo  ||  pa  la  falutr  li  laf  aia» :  g  en 
efpecial  pa  los  naturales^  lafta  tlerra  H  pa  q  M  mn= 
tiatro  g  roboratios  enlas  cofasi  tie  n!a  fcta  fe  catt)o|| 
Ilea :  g  anamatiogs  pa  la  guartia  tie  log  matiami^tofij 
liiuinois :  g  pa |||}  totios  fepan  lose  gtatie£(  tioness 


'  Dictionary,  Nu.  14500. 


<-«WJW< 


ini^wiijwiiiiiui.^ii 


440  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1550.*  8  riquctas  ^  nfo  clementiffimo  il  rctr emptor  quifo 

' comunicar  mrtiatc  i\x%  fitOs  facratn^tos  con  el|| 

exercicio  tre  las  obras  tre  tula :  affi  corporal cs  como 
fpflaless :  tatio  II  lo  ql  St  cotienc  rn  lofii  qrcnta  fers 
monicoss  aq  catenitrofs.  Sa  facalltra  la  legua  t 
tata  clarilrati  como  aq  parecc:  affi  porq  meror  it 
ticlltolro  a  cnt^trcr  a  cftos  naturalcsi  1  como  tStic 
porq  mcjorllco  tome  tic  coro  los  q  lo  qficrS  tomar.|| 

Four  lines  before  the  last : 

Ecatofc  tre  imprimir  a  II  xij .  tiias  trel  meis  tre 
i)el)rero  .  afio  5  llUfl .  tr ,  I .  aftos  II  Ea  ql  ija  fitro 
agora  uueuamente  corregitra  g  emctratra .  II 


*^*  410,  title  printed  in  black  and  red,  with  text  beginning  on  the 
verso  one  leaf  +  eight  unnumbered  leaves  +  one  hundred  and 
forty-seven  numbered  leaves.  Printed  on  two  columns,  one  in 
Spanish,  the  other  in  the  Mexican  language. 

(Private  Librar.,  Washington  City  and  Mexico.) 


296.  SABELLicus.—"  Chronica  geralde  Sabellico  des  ho 
comeco  do  mundo  atee  nojfo  tempo,  trajladada  do  Latim  em 
Lingoagem  Portuguez  por  £)[ona]  Leonor  de  Noronha 
[daughter  of  the  Marques  de  Villareal].  Coimbra,  Ba- 
reira  e  Alvarez.     1550-52.     1  vol.  in-fol." 

(Graesse'.) 


*  The  translation  into  French  of  Ales-  (Walckenaer  Catalogue,  p.  176,  No.  2 181), 

sANDRo    PiccoLOMiNi's    Dtlla    Sfera    del  may  contain  some  passages  relating  to  the 

Mondo  f   Venice,    4to,    1540,   •viz.:    La  subject  before  us. 

Sphere  du  monde,  compoiie  par  Alex.  Pic-  '  Vol.  vi,  p.202;  andEB£RT,No.  19676, 

coloniini,  traduiite  de  luscan  enfranf<iis,par  on   the    authority   of  the    catalogue    pub- 

Jac.  Goupyl,  Paris,  by  Cavellat,  1550,  8vo  li?hcd  by  the  Academy  of  Lisbon. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  441 

297.     CORTES  (F.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf :  ^55^* 

FERDINANDI  !|  cortesi.  ||   ^Ott 

Un  %mm  ^if^aniett.  fa 

nil  "  frtt(^trci(^c  §l|iorlemiitt  ben  groffmoi^tlBlftett 
tmiifiertolttbt-lini^lften  §crreii,  carolvm  .  v .  9lomlf(^ett|| 
aaifcr  &c.  ^unig  in  §if)ianien  &c. || ^ie  erft  im  liH.B.xx 
far  pgef(^rilien  I  in  toettii^er  gmnbt-H  (id|  tinb  olnnlittiir- 
bi^  ttydi  mirbt,  bet  ^denbtlanben,  bnnb  ||  fonbevHi^  bet 
.^or^deritnt^ten  ftatt  ^emi^rtttan  eroberung.  ||  ^ie  anbere 
im  1524.  iot.  aSie  S^emirtiton,  fo  ofioefalUn  1  toibet 
eroberti  ||  9lail|nta(g  anbere  derrlii^e  8t)gifanMit  bet  et- 
finbttng  beg  9)leetg  svri8o  man  fiit  ba§  ^inbianifi^ 
9Jleet  ttd|tet.||2)ot3ii  oni^  bontiilen  onbetn  fionbtft^afftcn 
Snbittci®!)  etfnnben  toon  bem  1536  .  biff  ong  bog  42  • 
Sttt.liaSeaii^et  biifattige  ftnc^tmn^  unb  hift^iotfnlti 
in  cinct  @umi  ||  onff  ba§  tntjteit  1  ainet  ^etiuctbcn  S^\\= 
totien  bolgenbeg  li  ^itte(  begtiffen  bnb  angejaiot  mitbt.  || 
^tftlii^  in  §if^ionifil|et  S^itadj  tion  Sotte^lo  felbft  6e- 
ft^tiben,  9loi^mai8 1|  bon  ^octot  "^titx  ^onotgnon  auff 
gtittul  in  Sateinifi^e  f^itoi^  2ton8fetietti||(^nta(^  abet 
in  goi^teittfc^e  f^tae§  1  .  .  .  .  etc. 

©ettnift  inn  bet  ^oifetlir^en  JHeir^S  ^iaH  ^tngS^ntfi, 
btttdi  II  ^^iti^i^i  Si^ott,  %n  bet  Alitc^floff en  1  bel|  ^Mx\^  II 

Anno  Domini   M  .  D  .  L  .     Cum   gratia  &  Priuilegio 
Ro:   Regiae  Maieftatis  in  Decennium.  ||* 

*  AngUce  :  Hernando  Cortes.  Concern-  teresting  aid  useful  stories.  To  the  most 
ing  New  Spain,  which  is  situated  in  the  powerful  a. d  invincible  Lord  Charles  V, 
Oceui,  towards   the  West.     Two  very  in-     Emperor  of  the  Romans,  &c.,  and  King 

56 


442  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  55^'  ***  '^''''°'  *'''^  ^"^  leaf  +  five  preliminary  unnumbered  leaves  + 

_  text  thirty-nine  numbered  leaves  +  one  blank  -j-  two  unnum- 

bered leaves  -{■  sixty  leaves. 

(Private  Librar.,  New  York,  Providence  and  Washington  city.) 

German  translation  of  the  Second  and  Third  Rela- 
tions (erroneously  called  the  First  and  Second),  by  Six- 
tus  Birck  or  Betuleius',  a  noted  Swabian  poet  and 
philologist,  and  Andreas  Diether,  his  colleague  in  the 
Faculty  of  the  Augsburg  Gymnasium.  The  present 
volume  contains,  also,  the  extract  from  Peter  Martyr's 
Fourth  Decade,  another  from  Oviedo,  and  quite  a  num- 
ber of  interesting  documents,  not  found  in  any  of  the 
Spanish  or  Latin  editions,  referring  to  voyages  to  the 
Canary  Islands,  Venezuela,  battles  with  the  Indir.ns  and 
Amazons,  and  the  expedition  of  Gonzales  Pizarro  to 
discover  "Zinnamon." 


Direct  rtftrtnces '. 


Ternaux,  page  14,  No.  57,  bis. 

Tromel,  page  6,  No.  14. 

Brunet,  Vol.  II,  col.  312. 

Bibliotheca  Broiuniana,  Jjage   14,  No.  82. 

Bibliotheca  Barlowiana,  page  13. 

Libri  Catalogue  for  1861,  No.  258. 


of  Spain,  &c.,  the  first  of  wliich  was  writ- 
ten only  in  the  year  1520,  and  wherein  is 
mentioned,  in  a  tliorough  and  most  relia- 
ble manner,  of  the  Western  countries,  and 
especially  of  the  most  celebrated  city  of 
Temixtitan ;  the  second,  in  1 524,  relating 
how  Temixtitan,  which  had  revolted,  was 
conquered.  Then  of  several  splendid  vic- 
tories, together  with  the  discovery  of  the 
Southern  Sea,  which  is  believed  to  be  the 
Indian  Ocean ;  besides,  of  many  other 
countries  in  the  Indies  wliich  have  been 
discovered  from  1536  to  1542;  contain- 
ing many  things  useful  and  interesting, 
mentioned  and  indicated  in  a  concise  form, 
under  the  title  of  each  history.  First,  writ- 
ten in  the  Spanish  language,  by  Cortes  him- 
self, and  afterwards  translated  into  Latin  by 
Dr.  Peter  Savorgnan,  of  Forli;  lastly,  into 
High  German,  in  honor  of  and  in  the  hum- 
blest obedience  to  the  most  illustrious  and 
powerful  Prince  and  Lord,  Ferdinand,  Em- 
peror of  the  Romans,  King  of  Hungary  and 
Bohemia,  licc.  Infant  of  Spain,  Archduke 
of  Austria,  &c.,  by  Sixtus   Betuleius   and 


Andreas  Diether,   of  Augsburg,   both    of 
them   Latin  teachers  of  the  city. 

Printed  at  the  Imperial  city  of  Augs- 
burg, by  Philip  Ulhart,  in  Church  Street, 
near  St.  Ulrich,  A.  D.  1550.  With  per- 
mission and  privilege  of  His  Imperial  and 
Royal  and  Roman  Majesty,  for  ten  years. 
*"  Epistolasecundade  NovaHispania, Ger- 
manicc.  Durch  Doctorem  Petrum  Savorgna- 
num  ausz  Spanischer  sprach  um  das  Latein 
gebracht,  und  netzt  inns  Teutsch  durch 
Andrcam  Diether  Latcinischen  Schulmais- 
te;      ■  Augspurg.    S.  1 .  et  a  .   Ful .  b.  l. 

*'  This  is  .111  early  German  I'ranslatioii  from  Ihc 
Latin  nf  Savorgnanus,  of  the  Second  lipistle  of" 
Ferdinand  Cortes  of  lyiz.  and  is  of  such  rarity 
that  it  is  unknown  to  Meuselius,  Camus.  &c.  The 
Dedication  of  Savorgnanus  to  Clement  VII.  dated 
*  Nurnbcrg,  den  letsten  tag  Martii,  15Z4.'  " 

(Bibliolh.  Grenvill.,  p.  167;  Livres  cu- 
rieux.  No.  132.) 

This  "unknown"  work  is,  in  reality, 
only  the  last  half  of  the  above  No.  297. 

'  Born  in  Ijoo,  died  in  1554.  See,  for 
biographical  and  bibliographical  details, 
Athena  Raurictt,  p.  310. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  443 

298.    APIjiNUS  {P.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf:  I  55°* 

COSMOGRAPHIA 

PETRI  APIANU  PER  G  EMM  AM  FRISIVM 
apud  Louanienfis   Medicum  ^  Mathematicus   inftgnem,  \\ 
iam  demum  ab  omnibus  vindicata  mendis,  ac  non-\\nulIts 
quoque  locis  auffa.     Additis  eiujdem  ar-  \\gumenti  libellis 
ipftus  Gemmo  Frijij.  || 

Then  a  mounted  globe,  and  : 
Vsneunt  Antuerpise  fub  fcuto  Bafilienfi,  Gregorio  Bontio. 

M.D . L. 

Colophon: 

I  Antuerpis    excufum    Gregorio   Bontio  1|  typis    Deifthemij, 

anno  a  Chrifto  1550. 11 

*  *  Sm.  4to,  title  one  leaf  +  one  preliminary  leaf  unnumbered  4- 
*    sixty-four    numbered    leaves  4-  two    unnumbered  ;    map    on 
fol.  31. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

See  fol.  41,  for  insulae  americae. 

Direct  references:  f  Graessi,  Vol.  i,  page  159. 

J  Stevens's  American  Bihtiographer,  page  1 3. 
\  Bibliotheca  Barlowiana,  page  I  a. 


299.    IDEM  OPUS-''  Bafil .  1550  .  in-4to." 

(Graesse.) 

We  had  a  thorough  search  made  in  the  British  Mu- 
seum and  Imperial  Library  at  Paris  for  this  edition, 
but  it  could  not  be  found.  We  are  mclmed  to  think 
that  the  bibliographer  from  whom  we  borrow  this  notice 
mistook  the  meaning  of  the  words  ''fub  fcuto  Bafilienfi, 
in  the  imprint  of  the  above  No.  298. 


444  Bibliotheca  Americana' 

I^^O.  300.    MUNSTER  {SEBAST.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf : 

••  COSMO  II  GRAPHiAE||uniuerfalis  Lib.  vi. 

in  II  quibus,  iuxta  certioris  fidei  fcriptorum  ||  traditionem  defcri- 
bundur,  ||  Omniu  habitabilis  orbis  paitiu  p'piiae  qj  dotes.  ||  Regi- 
onum  TopographicrC  effigiis.  ||  Terrje  ingenia,  quibus  fit  ut  tani 
difFeretis  &  uarias  ||  Specie  res,  &  animatas  &  inanimatas,  ferat.  || 
Animalium  peregrinorum  naturae  &  picturas  ||  Nobiliorum  ciuita- 
tum  icones  &  defcriptiones.  ||  Regnorum  initia,  incrementa  h 
tranflationes.  ||  Omnium  genticu  mores,  leges,  religio,  res  gcfts, 
mu-  II  tationes  :  Item  regnum  &  principuum  genealogiaj.  || 

Aiitore  Sebast.  Munstero. 

In  fine : 

BASILEAE    APVD    HENRICHVM    PETRI,  |I  MENSE 
MARTIO    ANNO    SALVTIS  ||  M  .  D  .  L  .  || 


%*  Folio,  title  one  leaf,  on  reverse  of  which  a  fine  portrait  of 
Munster,  "anno  ;etatis  suje  60  "  +  nine  pages  +  one  page  for 
catalogue  of  authors  quoted  +  twelve  pages  tor  Index  -|-  eleven 
hundred  and  forty  pages  for  text.  According  to  the  Biblio- 
theca Colombiana\  this  edition  should  contain  a  mappemund, 
which  is  only  a  reproduction  of  the  one  inserted  in  the  Ptol- 
emy of  1540. 

(British  Museum.) 

See  Book  v,  pages  1099-1 113:     "  de  novis  insvms, 

quo  modo,  quando  ^  per  quern  illae  inuentce  sintT 

Direct  referencti !  f  Freytao,  AnaUcta,  page  619. 

Bandini,  yeip.,  tap.  iv,  page  58. 
Canovai,  Vita,  page  217. 
Cancellieri,  Dissertazioniy  page  47". 
Brunet,  Vol.  Ill,  col.  1945. 
Catal.  Biblioth.  Bunav.,  Vol.  n,  page  35, 


Page  2,  No.  7.  men  est  sortita  ....  notandum,  ab  aliis 

^Cancellieri    quotes,    in    connection  Americam    vocari    Hispanam,"   "  Erasmi 

with  the  above,  and  the  well-known  pas-  Osw.   Shreckenfuchsii   Oratio    funebris   de 

sage  :   "  America  ab  Americo  inventore  no-  obitu  Sfhatt.  Miinsieri,  Basil.,  1553,  8." 


' 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


445 


301.    B^AT/ro  (F£«ivwAr£)fiZ)-"Doctrina  Christiana  en    155*^' 
lengua  mixteca.     In-4°,  1550."  ' 

(TtRNAUx'j  Brunet*,  Graisse'.) 

We  had  prepared  an  elaborate  dissertation  concerning 
this  work,  which  is  not  to  be  found  in  any  public  or  pri- 
vate library,  either  in  America  or  in  Europe;  but,  as  we 
were  going  to  press,  we  received  from  our  esteemed 
friend,  Senor  Icazbalceta,  a  disquisition,  which  we  gladly 
substitute  in  the  place  of  our  own.  It  may  give  to  the 
uninitiated  an  insight  into  the  kind  of  labor  which  every 
'  conscientious  bibliographer  is  frequently  compelled  to 
undergo,  to  ascertain  a  date  or  correct  an  often-repeated 
error: 

"  La  premiere  mention,  a  ma  connaissance,  de  cet  ouvrage,"  says  the 
learned  Mexican  bibliographer,  "  remonte  a  Davila  Padilla.  II  ra- 
conte  la  vie  de  I'auteur  dans  son  Historia  de  la  fundacion  y  discurso  de 
la  Provincia  de  Santiago  de  Mexico,  de  la  or  den  de  Predicadores*,  et  dit : 

'  Enviaronle  a  la  Misteca,  donde  estudio  con  tanto  aprovechamiento 
de  discipulo,  que  fue  depresto  maestro,  y  compuso  un  tratado  de  doc- 
trina  cristiana  con  la  mayor  propiedad  y  elegancia  de  lenguaje  que 
hasta  agora  se  ha  hecho.  Su  libro  se  imprimio  en  Mexico  el  ano  de 
1550.' 

Le  meme  passage  se  retrouve  dans  I'edition  de  Brusselas*.  Je  n'ai 
pas  vu  I'edition  de  Valladolid,  1634. 

Un  autre  dominicain,  Fr.  Alonzo  Fernandez,  dans  son  Historia 
ecclesiastica  de  nuestros  tiempos'^,  dit : 

'  Uno  delos  que  en  aquellas  naciones  mas  fruto  hizo,  fue  el  siervo 
de  Dios  Fr.  Benito  Fernandez.  Varon  verdaderamente  apostolico  y 
de  excelentes  virtudes.  Estudio  la  lengua  misteca  con  tanto  aprove- 
chamiento, que  compuso  un  tratado  de  doctrina  cristiana  con  la  mayor 
propiedad  y  elegancia  de  lenguaje  que  hasta  ahora  se  convie.  Impri- 
miose  en  Mexico  afto  de  mil  quinientos  y  cincuenta.' 

II  me  semble  evident  que  cet  auteur  (qui  n'a  jamais  ete  en  Ai;:e- 
rique)  n'a  fait  que  copier  Davila  Padilla,  dont  il  compte  i'Histoire 
parmi  les  ouvrages  dont  il  s'est  servi  pour  composer  le  sien. 

Nous  avons  encore  un  autre  dominicain  qui  raconte  en  detail  la 
vie  de  Fr.  Benito  Fernandez.     Fr.  Francisco  Burgoa'  dit : 

'  Compuso  un  libro  de  la  doctrina  Christiana,  de  los  principales 
misterios  de  nuestra  santa  fe,  empezando  desde  la  creacion  del  mundo. 


"  Blbliotheque  Amiricaine,  p.  12,  No.  56. 
'  Manuel,  Vol.  11,  col.  1215. 

•  Trhor,  Vol.  i,  p.  569. 

*  Madrid,  1596,  fol.,  p.  600, 


•  1 6*5,  fol.,  p.  48+. 

•  Toledo,  i6ii,fol.,  p.  120. 

'   Gtognifica  Descrifcion,  &c.,  t.    I,  fol. 
156,  col.  3. 


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I  ceo*     Encarnacion  del   Divino  Verbo con  tan  levantado  estilo, 

^  tanta  propiedad  en  los  termino  y  tal  fuerza  en  los  discursos,  que  des- 
pues  de  ciento  y  veinte  anos  que  ha  que  se  imprimio,  no  se  ha  hallado 
palabra  que  enmendar,'  etc. 

Quoique  I'ouvrage  de  Burgoa  ait  ete  imprime  en  1674,  la  preface 
est  datee  du  couvent  de  Oajaca  le  20  Janvier,  167 1.  Le  livre  a  done 
ete  ecrit,  au  plus  tard,  en  1670,  ce  qui  fait  tomber  la  date  de  I'edition 
de  la  Doctrina  du  P.  Fernandez,  juste  en  1550.  On  ne  peut  pas  dire 
que  Burgoa  ait  copie  Davila  Padilla.  11  donne  sur  le  P.  Fernandez 
des  details  tres  longs  et  tres  minutieux  qui  ne  se  trouvent  pas  dans  Da- 
vila. II  etait  ne  a  Oaxaca  vers  la  fin  du  16'  siecle,  et  avait  longtemps 
vecu  parmi  les  indiens  misteques,  dont  il  possedait  parfaitetnent  la 
langue.  II  doit  avoir  vu  le  livre  du  P.  Fernandez ;  et  par  cela  meme 
qu'il  en  marque  la  date  d'une  maniere  indirecte,  on  doit  croire  qu'il 
n'a  pas  copie  un  auteur  qui  la  fixe  en  chifFres. 

Davila  Padilla,  ne  a  Mexico  en  1562,  mort  en  1604,  appartenait 
au  meme  ordre  religieux,  et  redigea  son  "  Historia"  sur  les  memoires 
d'autres  freres  ses  devanciers,  comme  il  le  dit  dans  sa  Preface.  II 
finit  son  travail  en  1592. 

Le  temoignage  concordant  des  P.  P.  Davila  et  Bugoa  me  semble 
etre  d'un  grand  poids  en  faveur  de  I'existence  de  I'edition.  Voyons 
ce  qu'en  disent  les  bibliographes. 

Antonio  dc  Leon'  dit  seulement :  '  Fr.  Benito  Fernandez,  Domin- 
ico  Doctrina,  Epistolas  y  Evangelios  en  Lengua  Misteca :  imp.'  sans 
designer  aucune  date, 

C'est  dans  la  z'  edition  de  rEpitome*  que  Barcia  a  introduit  les 
dates:  'imp.  1550,  4°;  1564,  4°;  1568,  4°';  sans  indication  de 
source,  comme  a  I'ordinaire. 

Nic.  Antonio'"  n'indique  que  I'edition  de  1568;  4°. 

Voici  en  entier  I'article  consacre  a  notre  auteur  dans  les  Scriptorh 
Ordinis  Prtedicatorum^^ : 

'  F.  Benedictus  Fernandez,  Hispanus,  professione  Salmanticensis, 
exactio  ibidem  studiis,  in  novum  orbem  missus,  Indorum  saluti 
curandas  totum  se  dedit  medio  seculo  xvi.  Plura  in  vastis  illis  pro- 
vinciis  gessit  ordinis  munia  in  quibus  ardentissimam  conversionis 
indigenarum  sitirn  in  pectore  ferventem  propalavit.  Lingua  Mistecam 
ita  comparaverit  ut  elegantissime  loqueretur  &  ut  missionariis  viam  in 
Evangelii  praedicatione  faceret  planiorem,  scripsit  ac  edidit  •  Catechis- 
mum  seu  de  Doctrina  christiana  opus  absolutissimum  lingua  Misteca, 
Mexico,  1550,  in-4.'  Hsc  de  eo  Davila  Padilla,  Hist.  Prov.  Mex., 
lib.  2,  cap.  iy.  Antonius  in  Bibl.  Hisp.  referat  alteram  editionem 
anno   1568,  in-4.     *  Epistolarum  &  Evangeliarum  totius  anni  in  eam- 


^  Epitome  de  la  Bihiioteca  Oriental  y  Oc-         "Bibl.    Hisp.   Nova  i   Matriti,    1783, 
cidental  i  Madrid,  1629,  4to,  p.  108.  fol.,  t.  i,  p.  211. 

•  Madrid,  1737-38,  3  vols.,  fol.  "  Paris,  1719-21,  Vol.  11,  p.  136. 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  447 

dem  linguam    mistecam  versio*   ei    tribuitur  ab   Antonio    Leonio  in     I55O. 

Bibl    Ind.  qucm  excipiunt  Antonius  citatus  et  Altamura  ad  1558. 

On  voit  que  les  P.  P.  Quetif  et  Echard  ne  font  que  suivre  DaviU 
Padilla ;  il  faut  remarquer  cependant  qu'ils  donnent  le  format,  ce  que 

Davila  Padilla  ne  fait  pas.  ,    •  ^   .,        iJ-,-„„ 

Eeuiara",  apres  avoir  donne  le  titre  (traduit  en  latin)  d  une  edition 
de  1568,  in-4  « typographia  Petri  de  Ocharte,'  dit:  'Alteram  meii- 
ccam  itidem  editionem  de  1550  in-4  menriorant  Scrip.  Ord.  fned. 
torn.  2,  p.  136,  quam  videre  nobis  non  licuit.'        ^         ^,     .  „ 

D  Antonio  de  Alcedo"  indique  une  edition  de  1586,  in-4.  11 
est  permis  de  croire  qu'il  y  a  ici  une  transposition  de  chiffres  dans  U 
copie  (envoyee  par  M.  Prescott)  que  j'ai  sous  les  yeux,  et  que  cette  edi- 
tion n'est  que  celle  de  1568,  dont  parlent  Pmelo  (ou  plutot  Barcu.l 
et  Antonio. 

Beristain'*  dit  au  sujet  de  Fr.  Benito  Fernandez : 

««  Escribio  en  lengua  misteca  :  Doctrina  en  que  se  exphcan  la  crea- 

cion  del  mi-ndo,  la  Encarnacion  del  Verbo  Divino,  la  vida,  Pasion  y 

Muerte  de  Jesucristo,  con  otros  misterios  y  los  sacramentos  y  ora- 

ciones.     Imp.  en  Mexico,  por  P.  Ocharte,  1568,  y  antes  en   1550  y 

'  ^ct  t^i"re  factice  est  evidemment  forme  d'apres  Burgoa,  et  les  dates 
sont  prises  dans  les  bibliographes.     II  n'y  a  rien  de  vuu. 

Ternaux  cite  les  editions  de  1550  et  1568. 

Des  trois  editions  (vraies  on  supposees)  du  l»vre  (1550,  1,04. 
,  r68)  ie  n'ai  vu  que  celle  de  i  568.  qui  se  trouve  a  la  Bibliotheque  de 
la  "  Sociedad  de  Geografia  y  Estadistica."  C'est  un  exemplaire  tort 
maltraite,  auquel  il  manque  le  premier  f.  II  commence  par  le  t.  ii-. 
sien  aii.  Comme  le  texte  ne  commence  pas  sur  ce  t..  on  doit  croire 
que  le  commencement  se  trouvait  sur  le  verso  du  titre.  L  exemplaire. 
lel  qu'il  est  aujourd'hui,  se  compose  des  ff.  u  a  cc.  Au  verso  de  ce 
dernier  on  trouve  cette  souscription  : 

C  a  gloria  g  alataitfa  tie  nueftro  Me- 1!  Ueptor 
l^efii  Xpo.  atiui  fe  acata  la  Bocttia  Xpia  1!  na  m 
lenpa  iWifteca :  copuefta  pot  el  mug  ii.  II  paUrr 
fra»  lienito  l^crne  .oet.  Jf  ue  imprc  II  ffa  en  |Bei= 
icof  en  cafa  tie  i^etiro  ©-  II  etarte,  impteffor  He 
libeois.  a-  II  ealjofe,  a  begnte  g  quatto  II  tiias  «l  mes 
.^3Sneto5||i568.  afto^ll 


>»  Bihl   Mexkana,  Vol.  i,  p.  4«4- 
"  Bibliottca  Americana,  MS. 


"  Bibliottca  Hisparto-AmtrrcjK<t  &fit* 
trional.  Vol.  I,  page  497- 


448 


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1  f 


•55^*  Vient  ensuite  un  f".  non  numerote  (sign.  1313),  en  langue  mis- 
.  tcciue :  le  reste  manque,  In-4  goth  (excepte  les  chifFres  des  P  qui 
soni  en  remain)  a  2  col.  (tout  en  misteque)  avec  plusieurs  fig.  sur 
bois,  et  des  notes  de  plain-chant,  rouge  et  noir.  On  peut  remaiquer 
que  la  souscriptior  ne  porte  pas  '  agora  nuevamente  inipressa'  ou 
quclque  chose  d'equivalent,  comme  il  etait  alors  d'usage  toutes  les 
fois  qu'il  s'agissait  d'ane  nouvelle  edition.  Mais  je  ne  donne  pas 
cette  omission  comme  une  preuve  suffisante  pour  nier  I'existence  des 
editions  de  155061  1 564  (quoique  cette  derniere  ne  repose  que  sur 
la  foi  de  Barcia). 

Ce  qu'il  y  a  de  plus  remarquable  encore,  c'est  qu'il  existe  une 
edition  de  1567  dont  aucun  des  auteurs  cites  ne  parle.  Le  premier 
qui  I'a  fait  connaitre,  en  la  citant,  a  ete  M.  Pimentel  dans  son  Cuadro 
ilescnptivo  y  comparativo  de  las  lenguas  indigenas  de  Mexico^*.  Elle 
se  trouve  aussi  dans  la  bibl.  de  la  Soc.  de  Geog.,  y  Est. ;  mais  I'ex- 
emplaire  en  est  malheureusement  fort  endommage.  En  voici  la  de- 
scription :  Les  5  premier  fF.  manquent ;  I'exemplaire  a  IF.  vi-cLxxxix. 
Sur  le  recto  du  189°  se  trouve  la  souscription : 

([  a  slotia  8  ala  ||  ijanca  M  nucftro  Mctr^p  n  tor 
\tH  €f)rilt(i,  g  Tie  fu  II  tentiita  iHftatire  ^ancta  jj 
iiflaria,  g  prouccljo  tic-  II  \m  pvoximojs.  ^\  U  aca  || 
ija  la  Boctrina  en  Icngua  II  miftera :  eompuefta  por 
el  II  mug  Meuetantio  |3atire  II  fra»  13eiHto  |^etnan= 
tie{  II  TrTieario  ptouincial  tie  la  ||  ittifteea  tie  la  ortieu 
tie  II  log  ^retiicatiores  en  efta  nueua  iSfpafia.  jFue 
im-  II  pteffa  en  Ittexico  en  eafa  II  tie  iJetiro  (©eljarte  II 
imprefor  tie  litros  II  aratofe  a  22.  tie  li  llouiemlire.  || 
tie  1 567.  II  afios.  II  (E  ILaus  I9eo  ||  *. 

Les  derniers  fF.  manquent.  In-4  go'l^  ^  2  col.  a  30  lign.  par  p., 
tout  en  misteque,  fig.  sur  bois. 

L'edition  de  1567  ayant  ete  terminee  le  22  novembre,  et  celle  de 
1568  le  24  Janvier,  il  en  resulte  qu'elles  ont  ete  simultanement  sous 
presse,  puisqu'il  est  probable  que  ces  deux  mois  d'intervale  n'etaient 
pas  suffisants,  a  cette  epoque,  pour  I'impressioii  d'uii  in-4  ^^  P^'^s  de 
400  pp.  en  langue  inconnue  aux  ouvriers.  Mais  cela  s'explique  en 
apprenant  qu'il  ne  s'agit  pas  de  deux  editions  du  nieme  ouvrage, 
mais  bien  de  deux  ouvrages  tout-a-fait  divers. 


"  Mexico,  1862,  Vol.  i,  pajje  40. 


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Deil  le  Pere  Jr.  Antonio  de  los  Reyes,  dominicain,  avait  indique"     I  5  50. 
que  la  Doctrina  de  Fr.  Benito  Fernandez  avait  ete  impnmee  en  deux 

dialectes  differents :  .        ,    ,     ,        •      j„i  „,^,a 

"  Aunque,  dit-il.  despues  de  la  imprcsion  de  la  doctrina  del  padre 
Fray  Benito  Hernandez,  por  haberse  hecho  en  lengua  d^  Flachiaco 
y  Achiutla;  despues  en  la  que  se  traslado  en  lengua  deTepuzculula 
se  Donen  algunos  vocablos  que  no  tenian  antiguamente,    etc. 

Mais  il  ne  donne  aucune  date,  et  Vindication  est  trop  vague  et  le 
livre  du  P.  Reyes  trop  rare,  pour  que  les  bibliographes  y  eussent  tait 
attention.  M.  Pimentel  lui-meme  ne  cite  que  1  edition  de  isbyj 
aujourd'hui  qu'il  a  pu  voir  toutes  les  deux  il  a  trouve  que  celle  de 
1  c67  se  rappone  au  dialccte  de  Flachiaco  et  Achiutla,  tandis  que  celle 
de  I  <:68  appartient  au  principal  dialecte,  celui  de  Tepuzcu  u la  le  tout 
conformement  a  indication  du  P.  Reyes.  II  est  facile  d'ailleurs  de 
voir  que  les  textes  sont  differents.  Le  P.  Fernandez,  connaissant  a 
fond  la  langue  de  cette  contree,  aura  voulu  etre  plus  utile  encore  a 
,es  confreres  en  Icur  donnant  la  doctrine  dans  deux  des  prmcipaux 
dialectes.  Cette  particularite  est  restee  inconnue  aux  bibliographes, 
et  meme  le  P.  Burguoa,  qui  nous  a  transmis  la  biographic  du  V.  i-er- 
nandez  avec  un  telle  surabondance  de  details,  n'en  dit  rien. 

A  la  meme  bibl.  de  la  Soc.  de  Geogr.  y  Est.  se  trouve  un  vol. 
MS  in-A  de  220  ff ,  qui  commence  ainsi  :  '  Aqui  comienzan  algunos 
I'dos  dt  bien  habi'ar'en  lengua  Chuchona  de  Cuextlahuaca'  (un  autre 
Llect  du  misteque).  H  y  a  en  tete  de  la  table  trois  lignes  en  latin 
a  in  i  concues :  '  Iniex  seu  tabula  oim  contentorx  n  hac  salubri  doc- 
in  f  Blnedicti  fernandii  bone  mem"  viri  aplici.'  D'apres  ce  a  le 
pere  Fernandez  serait  aussi  I'auteur  de  ce  vol.,  et  il  aura.t  ecrit  la 
Doctrina  en  trois  dialects  du  misteque.  ,    ,,c    ■ 

11  y  a  encore  dans  la  meme  bibl.  un  autre  vol.  MS.  .n-4  qui  con- 
tient  selon  M.  Pimentel,  '  Doctrina  y  oraciones  y  moral  cnstiana,  en 
ngua  de  Tepuzculula.'  Sur  l>un  des  ff.  j'ai  apercu  une  note  de 
quelques  lignes  en  misteque,  oi,  j'ai  pu  seulement  lire  le  nom  de 
?Fray  Benito'  ce  qui  me  fait  croire  que  ce  livre  est  encore  un  ouvrage 
de  cet  infatigable  missionnaire.  ,  .      ,        -  n  , 

Malire  I'abondance  de  details  de  la  biographic  donnee  par  Bu  - 
eoa   nous  savons  tres-peu  sur  le  P.  Fernandez.     On  ne  connait  pas  la 
S;  de  sa  naissance;  on   salt  seulement  qu'il   fit  sa  profession  au 
couvent  de  Salamanca,  en  Espagne,  et  qu'il  v.nt  a  Mexico  avec  le  P 
vTcentde  las  Casas,  parti  d'ici  pour  recruter  d.s  missionnaire    de 
brne  volonte  dans  ks  couvents  d'Espagne      Envo/e  dans  J  M„/... 
aussitot  apres  son  arrivee,  il  sut  se  concilier  I'affect.on  des  indien  ,  et  il 
yTassa  presque  toute  sa  vie,  jusqu'a  sa  mort,  dont  j'lgnore  la  date^    Je 
n'ai  pu  non  plus  parvenir  a  fixer  la  date  du  voyage  de  Fr.  Vincent  de 
"as  Casas,  qui  nous  donnerait  celle  de  I'arrivee  du  P.  Fernandez  dans 


>•  Dana  la  Preface  de  son  Ant  en  lengua  Mhteca ;   Mexico,  I  593,  8"^ 

57 


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I  55^*  "  pays-  Je  trouve  seulement  que  le  P.  C'asas  accompagna  le  celebrc 
^—^^^—g,  P-  Betanzo3  dans  le  dernier  voyage  qu'il  tit  en  Espagne,  ou  ils  arri- 
verent  au  mois  de  Juillet  1549".  Si  ce  fut  dans  cc  nieme  voyage  que 
le  P.  C'asas  fit  son  pieux  recrutement  de  missionnaires,  il  semblc 
evident  que  la  Doctrine  du  P.  Fernandez  n'a  pu  ctre  imprimee  en 
1550;  mais  je  n'oserais  raffirmer." 


302.    ALBERTt  (L.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

DEscRiTTioNEllDI  TVTTA  ITALIA  ||di 
I.  Leandro  Albert!  Bolognefe,  Nella  quale 
fi  contiene  il  Sito||di  efla,  I'Origine,  &  le 
Signorie  delle  Citta,  &  delle  Caftilla,||  coi 
Nomi  Antichi  &  Moderni,  i  Coftumi  de 
Popolo,  le  Condicioni  de  Paefi :  ||  et  piv-gli 
HVOMiNi  FAMosi  CHE  l'hanno  ||  Illuftrata,  i 
Monti,  i  Laghi,  i  Fiumi,  le  Fontane,  ||  i 
Bagni,  le  Minere,  con  tutte  Fopre  marau- 
igliofe  in  lei  ||  dalla  Natura  prodotte.  ||  $*  || 
Con  Priuilegio  ||  In  Bologna  per  Anfelmo 
Giaccarelli  ||  M.D.L.  || 

*^*  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  three  unnumbered  leaves  +  four  hun- 
dred and  sixty-nine  leaves  for  text  -j-  twenty-eight  unnum- 
bered leaves  for  index. 

(British  Museum.) 

This  work  is  quoted  by  the  Nova  Acta  Eruditoruni'^y 
in  reference  to  the  alleged  claims  of  Vespuccius  to  the 
discovery  of  the  New  World. 

Direct  references :  (  Haym,  Eiblio'heca  Italiana,  Vol  i,  page  63. 
•I  FoNTANiNi,  Bihihteca,  Vol.  11,  page  274. 
(  Clement,  Bibliotheque  C«r(>a«,  Vol.  I,  page  117. 


Dav.  Padilla,  lib,  i,cap.  31. 


Leipzig,  1749,  p.  483. 


EL 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  45* 

303.   SEPULVEDA  (J.  G.]—"Apologiam  pro  libra  de  Juf-    155®' 
tis  belli  caufts  contra  Indos  Jufcepti.     Romae  1550.  in  8."  =«=«— 

(Antonio'.) 

After  Columbus,  Vespuccius  and  the  "  Conquista- 
dores,"  historians  consider  Las  Casas  as  the  most  im- 
portant character  in  the  early  history  of  this  continent, 
while  a  complete  set  of  the  tracts  published  by  the  good 
Bishop  of  Chiapas*  always  occupies  a  choice  place  on 
the  shelves  of  American  libraries.    To  make  the  collec- 
tion still  more  valuable,  the  collector  should  add  the 
works  published  in  reply,  not  to  the  Tratados  (the  ear- 
liest of  which  was  printed  only  in  1552),  but  to  the  ar- 
guments they  contain,  and  which  had   been  set   forth 
several  years  before,  in  two  or  three  public  assemblies. 
The  greatest  of  Las  Casas'  adversaries,  in  fact  the  only 
one  whose  name  is  now  remembered,  was  Juan  Gines  de 
ScDulveda.     This  bold  champion  of  absolutism,  one  ot 
th-;  most  eloquent  and  erudite  writers  of  the  sixteenth 
century,  was  born  near  Cordova,  and  died  in  1572,  at 
the  age  of  eighty-one'. 

The  noted  and  decried  works  of  Sepulveda,  relating 
to  the  right  of  waging  war  against  the  Indians,  with  the 
additional  privilege  of  exterminating  them— a  Practice 
then  novel  and  misunderstood,  but  now  accepted,  ad- 
mired, rewarded,  and  a  matter  of  every-day  life  have 
engrossed  our  attention,  without  enabling  us  to  form  a 
decided  opinion  upon  their  existence  as  printed  volumes, 
anywhere  and  at  any  time. 

We  will  state  all  the  facts  which  we  have  gathered, 
leaving  it  to  the  reader  to  draw  his  own  conclusions : 

SepSlveda  first  wrote  a  Dialogue,  known  as  Democra- 
tes  which  was  actually  printed  in  Latin*  and  in  Spanish^ 


>  Siblioth.  Hisfi.  Nova,  Vol.  i,  p.  703. 

•  Notes  on  Columbus,  pp.  18-24. 

'  NicEBoN,  Memoires,  Vol.  xxiii,  p.  345- 

*  lo.  Gencsii  Sepulveda  Corduhensis,  Ar- 
tium  &  TheologitS  Doctoris  de  Convenier.tia 
Militaris  Discipline  cum  Christiana  Reli- 
gione  qui  inscribilur  Democrates.    Jmpres- 


sum  Roma  apui  Antonium  Btadum.  Anno 
Domini,  mdxxxv;  410.  Reprinted  at  Paris, 
by  Simon  de  Colines,  1541,  8vo,  "cum 
aliis  auctoris  operibus ;"  and  inserted  in 
Vol.  IV,  pp.  225-328,  of  the  Madrid  reprint 
of  Scpulveda's  works. 

'  Dialogo  llamado  Democrates  compuetio 


'wmv^^^ 


452 


Bibliotheca  Americana, 


1^50.  This  work  does  not  contain  a  single  line  relating  to  the 
.  subject  before  us. 

He  then  wrote  another  Dialogue,  called  De  justis  belli 
causis  sive  democrates  alter,  the  object  of  which  was 
to  prove  1°,  that  it  was  right  and  proper  to  wage  war 
against  the  Indians;  2°,  that  the  Emperor  had  the  right 
to  bind  them  over  to  the  conquerors  as  vassals  or  slaves. 

Was  this  work  ever  printed? 

In  the  first  place,  we  should  state  that  notwithstand- 
ing the  most  diligent  searches  in  several  of  the  leading 
libraries,  both  public  and  private,  in  Europe  and  Amer- 
ica, and  after  a  careful  perusal  of  a  large  collection 
of  catalogues  of  sales,  from  the  time  of  De  Thou  to 
the  present,  we  have  not  yet  succeeded  irf*  finding  a 
single  copy  or  mention  of  the  work. 

As  to  second-hand  assertions,  they  are  plentiful 
enough,  but  may  all  be  traced  to  the  following: 

Nic.  Antonio''  states  that  the  Democrates  alter  was 
actually  printed  at  Rome  "  paucis  admodum  exemplari- 
bus,"  and  cites,  as  his  authority,  Sepulveda's  own  epis- 
tles, LXIX,  i.xx^. 

When  we  turn  to  these  two  letters,  we  find  that  one 
only  was  written  by  Sepulveda.  This  is  dated  Vallado- 
lid,  August  25,  1549,  and  is  thus  analyzed  by  the  ed- 
itors : 

•'  Ant.  Augustino  S.  P.  Auditori  mittit  libellum  a  se  conscriptum, 
jure  ne  an  injuria  Barbari  in  Cbristianorum  potestatem  redigantur, 
ejusque  judicium  expetat  nunc  libeilus  edendus  sit,  an  seeds?" 

And  it  must  be  said  that  the  body  of  the  letter  is  not 
more  explicit.     The  other  letter,  dated  April  i,  1550, 


ts 
ts 


Si 

t: 


for  el  Doctor  "Juan  de  Sepulveda,  capellan 
y  coronhta  de  su  S.  C.  C.  M.  del  En.perador. 
/igora  nueuamente  impresso.  We  beg  leave 
to  call  the  attention  of  the  reader  to  the 
colophon,  which  is  not  without  interest 
to  ascertain  the  date  of  Cromberger's 
death,  vix.  : 

Fue  infresso  en  la  muy  noble  y  muy  leal 
ciudad  de  Stvilla :  en  casa  de  Juan  Crom- 


berger  niFUNTo  que  dios  aya.  Acaboie  a 
■veynte  y  ocho  dioi  del  mes  de  Mayo  de  mil y 
quinientoiy  juarentay  iin  aRos.    [ 1 541  ],  4to. 

'  loc.  cil.,  Vol.  1,  p.  703. 

'  Republished   in  Sepulveda's  collected 

works  :     Opera  cum  edita,  turn  inedita,  ac- 

curante  regia  hisloria  Academia;  Madrid, 

4  vols.,  4to,  1780.     Vol.  IV,  pp.  250-251. 

[Harvard  Coll.  Libr.J 


f 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  453 

is  the  reply  from  Antonio  Augustine.     This  only  con-    1 
tains  the  following  lines  :  — 

"Cum  optimo  antistite  .  .  .  atque  .  .  .  aliis .  .  .  communicavi  . .  .  Ita- 
que  libcllum  ipsum  plurilnis  exeinplis  describi  edique  pcrmisimus. 

Thus  far  we  see  nothing  positive,  and  the  only  pas- 
sage which  can  be  interpreted  in  the  light  of  an  asser- 
tion, is  an  extract  from  another  letter,  dated  October 
ist,  1551,  which  is  as  follows: 

"  Martino  Olivarro  J.  U.  D.,  Inquis.  Apost :  .  . .  Causam  de  bello 
barbarico  .  quam  ego  causam  miii;li-o  persecutus  cram  cui  titulus 
est  Democrntes  secundus  sive  de  justis  belli  causis :  longum  csscl  pristi- 
eios  arte  et  machinamcnta  commcmorarc  quibus  me  dcpnmcre  .  .  . 
conatus  est  artifex  illc  versutissimus  ....  cui  pra.-judicio  nos  doctorum 
romanorum  conscnsum  ....  qui  tres  in  excu.so  lihello  memorantur, 
ipsius  que  urbis  Romx-  ubi  meus  mbem.us  ab  his  comprobatur  et  m- 
pressiofie  vuliratus  ernt,  multo  et  graviorem  et  augustiorem  auctoritatem 

et  maiestatem   opbonebamus Gravissime  tamen  et  eHicacissime 

rationes ...  in  meo  libro  de  juith  belli  causis  jam  pridem  multis  ex- 
emplis  vulgato ....  continentur." 

This  passage  tallies  with  the  assertion  of  Andrew 
Schott,  in  his  edition  of  Sepulveda*,  that  the  Democra- 
tes  alter  was  actually  printed.  But  how  can  we  explain 
the  words  of  Sepulveda  himself,  when  speaking  of  the 
same  work:  "a  me  nondum  impressione  edito'"^?  And 
in  the  monilum  added  by  the  Madrid  editors  of  the  col- 
lected works,  which  contain  annotations  by  one  Pernan- 
dez  Franco,  who  was  a  contemporary  of  Sepulveda,  we 
read'°,  concerning  the  Democrates  alter:  "  Este  libro  se 
mando  que  no  se  imprimiese,  y  se  quitaron  los  impresos 
por  mandado  del  rey,  de  que  recibio  gran  ofensa  este 

autor."  .        , 

Withal  we  find  a  full  title  in  Freytag",  with  these 
significant  words:  "cura  Antonii  Augustini  impressus, 
Romae,  4to,"  and  in  Bartolozzi'^  another  title,  enriched 


550. 


•  Cologne, .  602,  4to,  p.  4«-    This  edi-  ca,.us :  An  liciat  bello  Mo,  pro^ejui  aufe- 

tion  contLs  an  in  cresting  life  of  Sepul-  rendo  ah  iiaom,mato,i:^uone^q»t,&    br.a 

A      Kv  Srhntt  Itmporatia,  &  ocadendo  eos,  si  remtenlram 

'   .  LetVr,  dated  .554,  i"  collect,  works,  .ffosuerin,,  -v.  sic  spolia.i  &  subUaiJaci- 

„  ,  '    .,  liji  per  Praedicatores  suadealur  eis  fdes; 

"^".0  vor. V  p.  390.  ''-'-.  '•"  4."-^-/""'.  p-  .»s'-  ^  ^ 

I.  i'Delc'rLZundus,  ,eu  de  iusth  belli         '»  •'  De  Juuis  Belli  caum  contra  Indo, 


454 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


V^t^O*   with  a  curious  note.     Nay,  if  our  memory  serves  us 

right"  nearly  all  the  translations  of  the  Disputa  entre  B. 

de  las  Casus  y  Ginh  de  Sepulveda,  assert  that  the  Demo- 
crates  alter  was  published  at  Rome  against  the  explicit 
orders  of  Charles  V.     Llorente  only  says  that'* : 

"  Sepulveda  demanda  au  supreme  conseil  des  Indes  la  permission  de 
faire  imprimer  son  travail  et  ne  put  I'obtenir.  II  supplia  I'empereur 
de  renvoyer  sa  demande  au  conseil  de  Castille,  qui,  apres  I'avoir 
examinee,  proposa  au  monarque  d'approuver  I'impression  ;  elle  fut 
accordee  par  une  cedule  signee  a  Aranda  de  Duero  en  1543.  Ce  flit 
dans  ce  temps-la  que  Barthelemi  de  Las  Casas  arriva  d'Amerique  en 
Espagne.  II  predit  les  funestes  consequences  qu'aurait  I'ouvrage  de 
Sepulveda,  et  il  I'attaqua.  Ses  efforts  engagerent  le  conseil  de  Cas- 
tille a  consulter  les  universites  d'Alcala  et  de  Salamanque.  Elles 
opinerent  I'une  et  I'autrp  contre  la  publication  du  livre,  et  le  conseil 
de  Castille  revoqua  la  permission  de  I'imprimer." 

But  if  we  cannot  find  the  Democrates  alter,  it  may  be 
that  the  substance  can  be  found  in  the  Apologia,  which 
was  written  in  defense  of  the  second  Democrates.  Las 
Casas  himself  says  that  they  were  both  one  and  the 
same  work  with  a  new  title.  At  all  events,  Sepulveda 
was  also  refused  permission  to  print  the  Apologia  in 
Spain,  and  was  compelled  to  resort  to  his  friends  at 
Rome : 

"  Itaque  Antonio  Augustino  aliisque  viris  doctissimis  annitentibus 
excusa  est  Apologia  pro  libro  de  justis  belli  causis  ad  amplissimum  et  doc- 
tiisimum  D.  Ant.  Rarnirum  Episcopum  Segoviensem.  Ad  cujus  calcem 
legitur  in  primaeva  editione.  Hoc  opus  judicio  doctissimorum  et  gravis- 
simorum  dominorum  Philippi  Archinsi,Sanctissimi Domini  nostri  Papae 
Vicarii,  ct  ^gidi  Foscararii,  magistri  sacri  Palatii  ac  Antonii  Augus- 
tini  auditoris  Rotje  examinatum  et  approbatum,  et  multorum  aliorum 
eruditissiiiiurum  virorum  consensu  in  Urbe  commendatum  impressum 
t'uit  Romffi  apud  Valerium  Doricum  et  Ludovicum  fratres  Brixienses . 
Primer  Maji  anno  a  Christo  nato  M  .  D  .  L  .  8°."  " 


ceptit,  si-ve  Democratts  alter  ....  Romae 
...  Le  premure  che  it  pio  Imperatore 
Sovrano  delle  Spagne  si  diede  per  poppri- 
mere  questo  libro  vergognoso,  lo  hanno 
resotalmente  raro,  che  i  Bibliografi  non  co- 
noscono,  che  il  solo  escmpUre  esistente 
neir  una  volta  Gesuitico,  Collegio  di  Gra- 
nata."     (Richcrche,  p.  32,  note.) 


"  We  can  only  refer  at  present  to  the 
Narrath  Region,  indicarum ;  Frankfort, 
1598,  p.  136. 

'•  (Ewvres  dedon  B.  de  Las  Casas;  Paris, 
8vo,  1822,  Vol.  I,  p.  334. 

"  Opera  omnia.  Vol.  i.  p.  lxxvi  ;  Vol. 
IV,  p.  351. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


455 


But  here  again  we  failed  to  find  a  printed  copy  of  a    155O. 
separate  edition  of  the  Apologia.     We  know  the  work  __— -- 
only  from  the  reprint  in  the  Cologne  and  Madrid  edi- 
tions, and  a  manuscript  copy'^. 

304.    RAMUSIO  (J.  B.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

pRiMo  voLVMEllDELLE  NAVIGA- 
TION! II  ET  VIAGGI  II  NEL  QVAL  SI  CON- 
TIENE  II  LA     DESCRITTIONE     DELL'     AFRICA,    Et 

del  paefe  del  Prete  lanni  con  uiaggi, 
dal  mar  RofTo  a  |1  Calicut,  &  infin  all' 
ifolo  Molucche,  doue  nafcono  le  Spetierie,|| 
Et  la  Nauigatione  attorno  il  mondo.  |1  li 

NOMI  DE  GLI  AVTTORI,  ET  LE  NAVIGATIONI, 
ET  II  I  VIAGGI  PIV  PARTICOLARMENTE  SI  MOS- 
TRANO  NEL  FOGLIO  SEGVENTE.  |1 

Then  vignette,  and  : 

Con  priuilegio  del  Sommo  Pontejice,  C^ 
delio  II  Illuftrifs,     Senato  Venetiano,  H 

IN  VENETIA  APPRESSO  GLI  HEREDI  |1  DI  LV- 
CANTONIO  GIVNTI  ||  l'aNNO  MDL.  || 

Colophon :  1  1  •    1  1  • 

In  Venetia  nella  ftamperia  de  gli  heredi 
di  Luc'  Antonio  Giunti,  ||  I'anno  mdl.  nel 
Mefe  di  Maggio  || 

*  *  Folio,  title  one   leaf  +  three  unnumbered   prelim,   leaves  + 

leaves  numbered  i  to  405,  for  text. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 

••  Fifteen  leaves,  preserved  in  a  private  Uionet,  also  contained  a  MS  copy  of  the 
library,  Providence.  The  Hanrott  and  yifrJofij.  See  BiblMeca  Htbenana,  Part 
Heber  copies  of  Las  Casas'  Brcviuima  rt-     iv,  No.  164. 


456  .  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

I  ^^O.        The  chapters  relating  to  America  are : 

Lettere  di  Amerigo  Vespucci  Fiorentino  drizzata  al  Magni- 
fico  Pietro  Soderini  Gonfaloniere  della  eccelsa  republica 
di  Firenze  di  due  sue  nauigationi    .....  138-140 

— Discorso  sopra  la  nauigatione  fatta  dalli  Spagnuoli  attorno 

'1  Mondo 373-374- 

— Epistola  di  Massimiliano  transiluano  della  detta  nauiga- 
tione        374-380. 

— La  detta  nauigatione  scritta  per  messer  Antonio  Pigafetta 

Vicentino,  il  qual  ni  siritrouo  in  persona         .  ,  380-398. 

Giambatista  Ramusio,  Rannusio  or  Rhamusio,  was 
born  at  Trevise,  in  1485,  or  i486  {Nicer on),  and  died 
at  Padoua,  July  loth,  1557'.  He  held  the  office  of 
Secretary  to  the  dreaded  Venetian  council  of  "The 
Ten."  The  present  is  the  first  edition  of  his  collection 
of  voyages,  which  was  published  anonymously.  Ra- 
musio's  name  appeared  only  in  the  second  edition.  As 
to  the  merit  of  the  Raccolta,  Camus'  says : 

"  Elle  est  precieuse,  peu  vantee  par  les  libraires,  peu  recherchee  des 
amateurs  de  beaux  livres,  parcequ'elle  n'est  pas  ornee  d'estampes,  mais 
seulement  de  gravures  en  bois  qui  n'ont  rien  d'agreable ;  elle  est  es- 
timee  par  les  savants,  et  regardee  encore  aujourd'hui  par  les  geogra- 
phes  comme  un  des  recueils  les  plus  importans.  Ramusio  avait,  soit 
a  raison  de  ses  grandes  connaissances  dans  I'lustoire,  la  geographic, 
les  langues,  soit  enfin  a  raison  de  correspondances  multipliees  avec  les 
personnes  qui  pouvaient  etre  de  quelque  utilite  a  son  enterprise', 
toutes  les  f'acilites  necessaires  pour  former  une  excellente  collection. 
II  niourut  laissant  les  materiaux  d'un  quatrieme  volume  ;  mais  son 
manuscrit  perit  dans  I'incendie  de  I'imprimerie  des  Juntes,  arrivee  au 
mois  de  novembre  de  la  meme  annee. 

"  Selon  Fontanini  ct  selon  la  Bibliot.  italiana  de  Haym,  citee  par 
Crevenna  (catalogue  de  sa  bibl.  1776,  to.  v.  p.  35),  on  doit  choisir  le 
premier  volume,  de  I'editlon  de  1588  [the  above  edition  of  1550 
lacks  several  narrations  which  are  to  be  found  in  all  the  subsequent 
issues];  le  second  de  I'edition  de  1583,16  troisicme  de  I'edition  de 
1565.  Mais  on  ajoutera  a  ce  troisieme  volume  un  supplement  qu'on 
detachera  de  I'edition  de  1606  \yiz.  :  Viaggio  di  M.  Cesar e  de'  Fred- 
erici  nelP  India  orientale^" 


'  Apostolci  Zino  ap.  Fontanini,  Vol.     8vo,  1565,  p.  654  sq.  for  the  correspond- 
II,  p.  275.  cncc  quoted  by  Camus. 

•  Lettere  di  Xiii  Huomini  ilkstri }  Venice,  '  Memoire  sur  De  Bry,  p.  8,  note. 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


^Sl 


"  Le  premier  volume  a  ete  imprime  pour  la  premiere  fois  en  1550.     1  55^' 
Le  troisieme  le  fut  par  anticipation  en  1553,  et  le  second,  dont  I'im-  ______,g_ 

pression  avail  ete  retardee,  parcequ'il  manquait  a  I'auteur  quelques 
pieces  necessaires,  fut  reculee  encore  davantage  par  sa  mort,  et  ne 
parut  qu'en  1559" 

(NlCERON*.) 

The  publication  of  Ramusio's  Raccolta  may  be  said 
to  open  an  era  in  the  literary  history  of  Voyages  and 
Navigation.  Instead  of  accounts  carelessly  copied  and 
translated  from  previous  collections,  perpetuating  errors 
and  anachronisms,  we  find  in  this  valuable  work  original 
narrations  judiciously  selected',  carefully  printed,  and 
enriched  with  notices  which  betray  the  hand  of  a  scholar 
of  great  critical  acumen''.  Nor  should  we  forget  that 
we  are  indebted  to  Ramusio  for  the  preservation  of  ac- 
counts of  voyages  of  the  utmost  importance  to  the 
student  of  American  history  ;  and  did  his  work  con- 
tain only  the  Relatione  d'un  gentilhuomo  del  Sig.  Fernando 
Cortese,  and  the  first  voyage  of  Jacques  Cartier  to 
Canada,  these  two  capital  relations  would  entitle  the 
Raccolta  to  a  prominent  place  in  any  American  library. 


Dirtct  rcftrtncet  \ 


Lenclet  Dufresnoy,  Mith.  la  Giogr.,  Vol.  i,  Pt.  a,  p.  430. 

ZuRLA,  lit  Marco  Polo,  Vol.  ii,  page  110. 
Bandini,  de  Florent.  junt.  Typogr.  Vol.  I,  page  ^^. 
Tebnaux,  pjge  13,  No.  57. 
Brunet,  Vol.  IV,  col.  1 100. 
Graesse,  Vol.  VI,  page  23. 


The  year  1550  is  the  limit  which  we  assigned  to  our- 
selves in  the  outset  of  this  work.  That  limit  has  now 
been  reached,  and  our  task  is  therefore  accomplished ! 


♦  Mimoirei,  Vol.  xxxv,  page  98. 

»  FoscARiNi,  </.  Letter.  Fenea.,  p.  43S>  '?• 


•  Humboldt,  Examen  Critique,  Vol.  iv, 
p.  149. 


58 


458 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


As  we  cast  a  parting  glance  over  the  long  array  of  dis- 
sertations, notes  and  descriptions  which  precede  this 
concluding  page,  and  notice  the  numerous  errors  it  has 
behooved  us  to  correct  in  the  works  of  others,  the  relief 
we  experience  in  the  completion  of  our  undertaking  is 
mingled  with  feelings  of  doubt  and  apprehension.  The 
consciousness,  however,  of  having  performed  the  task 
honestly  is  our  consolation  and  reward.  Let  those 
who  may  feel  disposed  to  follow  in  our  wake  treat  us  as 
we  have  treated  our  predecessors  ;  and  if  they  can  in- 
scribe on  the  title  of  their  work  Montaigne's  epigraph : 
Cecy  est  un  livre  de  bonne  foy,  we  will  cheerfully  abide 
by  the  result. 

Withal,  when  we  recollect  the  nature  of  the  ob- 
stacles we  have  been  called  upon  to  overcome,  and  the 
vexations  which  it  has  been  our  misfortune  to  endure, 
we  must  rejoice  that  our  ordeal  is  over ;  and,  like  the 
scribes  of  old  when  they  had  performed  some  arduous 
and  ungrateful  task,  which,  after  years  of  toil  and 
privations,  oftentimes  left  them  blind,  exhausted  and 
famished,  we  repeat  with  a  fervent  heart : 


P^D  igitttr  0|)ttmci 
flttt  lauded  inflnitis! 


^i 


.^»',«<P«!  "!*.•» 


■    t 

I  -I 


ADDITIONS. 


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461 


I'J  bh.     DATI  {GIVLIANO).  ^495* 

"  Ifole  trovate  novamente  per  El  Re  di  Spagna,  c  folto  wja  Silo-  __--—--- 
erafia  completamente  diverfa  da  quella  che  orna  I'edizione  m  carat- 
fere  romano  26  ottobre  1493.  II  gruppo  d'Indiani  che  fuggonoalU 
macchia  trovafi  a  finiftra  di  chi  legge,  mentre  ncll'  altra  e  a  dettra. 
la  caravella  e  una  fola  in  luogo  di  due,  ne  vi  f'rimarea  a  finittra  la 
finura  coronata  del  Re  Ferdinando. 

«« Comincia  il  tefto  al  recto  del  fol.  1°  ;  e  continua  fino  al  rovelcio 
del  4°  foglietto,  che  e  I'ultimo  fono  in  tutto  ttanze  68,  10  per  pagina 
(a  due  colonne  in  4°)  meno  la  prima,  e  I'ultima  dove  il  tcfto  tcnnina 

"  cavaliere  mefler  Giovanfilippo  de  lignamine  j|domeftico  famigUarc 
dello  illuftriffimo  il  re   di  Spagna  ChrillianiflimoU  adi    xxvi   doftobre 

I4QC 11  Florentie.  || 

"  P  iproduce  quefta  edizione  il  tefto  ^^Wiifeconda  in  caratten  romani 
(26  ottobre  1493),  ma  con  u^\  femi-gotici .  Meno  al  titolo  ed  aila 
fottafcrizione  no  fi  troverebbe  un  folo  punto  ne  una  tola  virgola  tn 
tutto  il  tefto ;  non  ha  r.giftro  ni  richiami  ne  fegnature  ne  numcraztone 
di  pagine.     La  carta  molto  Ibftenuta  non  porta  marea  alcuna  nclla 

filigrana.     {In  Bibliotheca  Trivulzio.)" 

(MARqyis   d'Adda'.) 

This  edition  of  the  Dati  poem  had  been  noticed  by 

Cancellieri*- 

17.    The  passage  in   Zachary   Lillo's  work  is  on    149P« 
verso  of  leaf  40,  and  as  follows :  » 

"  De  navigatione  oceani  maris .  -  fed  res  pottulare  videtur  ut  quo 
tempore  navigatus  fit  oceanus,  paucis  exponam  :  ne  quifquam  novum 
aut  inufitatum  credat,  quod  Rex  hifpanis,  ut  ferunt,  in  cUes  ad  ci- 
ploranda  nova  littora  naves  mittat.  Nam  temporibus  Trajar-,  ut 
Plinius  refert  ..." 


2  2  *"•     BERGOMAS  {J.   f.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

l^ouimmc  ijsftoriai?  omniu  tcpctcumo-l!  ncs  no= 
uiter  a  Meuerentiimmo  patre  Ja  II  roto  pi)aippo 
ISctsomcfeiortiimsl^cllrmitatum  rtite:  que ^up^ 


1503" 


'  Ltttera  in  lingua  Spagnuola  diretta  da 
Crisloforo  Colombo  a  Luis  de  Santangel  { 1 5 
Fthbra'to  14.  marxo  1493)  riprodotta  afac- 
sijnile  eJ  illuslrata  per  cura  di  Gtrolamo 
d'Adda  dair  unico  esemplare  a  stampata 
tinora  conoiciulo  che  si  conserva  nella  Bib- 


liotheca Ambrosianai  Milan,  410,  uxn.  ff. 
+  6  11.,  1866. 

(A  very  well  executed  iac-simile  ol  d>e 
letter  mentioned,  supra,  page  14,  S**.  7-1 
Introd.,  p.  XX. 

'  Dissertaziani,  page  153. 


' 


462 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


1 503.  plementum  ||  fupplementi  Otronicatfi  nttncttpantur.  || 

Swcipienlro  at  exorUio  muntiiibfqp  inllEnnum  falus 

tl0  noftte.  Mttttti),  II 

Then  vignette  representing  the  arms  of  Cardinal  Antonio  Palla- 
vicini,  followed  by  : 

€um  gratia  x  ilriuilegio. 

Colophon : 

C  iSxpUcit  ^upplementum  Otttonicarum  Hili^ 
getttcr  iSt  II  accurate  i^euifum  ^tquc  dtoxxtcta. 
Vtnttii^  Jm  II  prcffu^  ^cr  aiijcrtinfl  Mt  Hiffona 
19^crcelW  II  fern.  Hegn^.  iLeonartio  Eoretrano  Vt  II 
netiarutn  ^Principe.  E  i^atiui- 1|  tatc  (ttriftl .  M  . 
ccccc .  II  m  .  Bic .  UU  .  iEati .  II  <irm  <@tatta  IBt  || 
i^riuUegio .  || 

(Imperial  Library,  Paris.) 


1509.  61. 


ANONYMOUS— 


(Bhhm  mntiH 


1511 


See  the  passage  on  the  recto  of  ciii : 

iEft  infuper  lam  rcpcrta  noua  (lueJram  infula, 
fibe  quarta  or- 1 1  ti»  paris,  fi  tiicere  mabiis .  maior 
ipfa  IBuropa  multum  .  non  tamen  cxcul  ||  ta  propter 
tncognitum  tim  partiis  fitum,  ({uie  iuxta  europam 
atqp  II  africam  atr  latus  occilrentale  protentritur  per 
circulasi  omnesi  pre- 1|  tiictosi  tranftierfaliter  .  Mt 
qua  n  Quitr  latius  fcire  tjefttreraia .  fac  ea  lellgajs . 
que  prafenti  liiieUo  fitit  trigno  fcripta  funt .  ^ictp 
Irempta  ijac  parte  no  II  biter  inuenta  .  ©mnesf  pro= 
bitttice  totiu«t  terrce  funt  Irxxb .  ^oUno  in  atteftante:  || 

67.    MAFFEI  OF  FOLTERRA— Above  a  large  vignette  : 

'    arommentariorum  IJrtano  ||rum  iJaptaelis  Uo= 
laterra=  ||  nl :  octo  x  trigenta  Ubri  cum  ||  tiupUci  erfl= 


i' 


Bibliotheca  Americana.  403 

Tjem  iMtt  fecuntium  11  Como»  coUecto.  II  Stem  ®e= 
conomlcu!»  Xenopptis  11  at  eotiem  latlo  tionatus.ll' 
Venuntiantttt  ^atrtifils   in  bia  Ja  11  cotea  ai) 
Joanne  paruo  r  JocoUo  II  13aTilo  mcenflo.  II 

Verso  of  the  title : 

i&x  c1)alro8rap1)la  noftra :  In  ^att1)iftotum  11  lu= 
tetla :  atr  Bus  augufti .  Hfl .  IB  .  X$ .  II 

*  *  Fol  .  title  one  leaf  +  seventeen  unnumbered  leaves+eight  un- 
*    numbered   leaves  for   Xenophon's    (Economics  +  leaves    num- 

bered  i-ccccxuii. 
The  chapter  relating  to  America  begins  on  the  verso 
of  leaf  cxxv. 


151I. 


6g. 


STOBNiczA—^^  Introductio 


1512. 


"Ein  Pohle.  war  Profeffor  Philofoph.a  zu  Cracau  begab  fich 
hernach  in  den  Orden  der  Minorum  de  Obiervant.a  fchr.eb  que/- 
JonTl  uZr/am  phi/ofopbiam,  und  edirte  ieines  Praceptor.s  M.- 
chaelis  Parifienfis.  Profefforis  zu  Cracau.  fcotift.che  Ph.lofoph.e. 

(JOCHER.) 

go.    MONTALBODDO  {F.  DE)-Move  ^  z<^oodcut  o/Vemce.-  15'7- 

iJaefi  nouamente  rittouati  pet  — 

la  Nauigatione  di  Spagna  in  Calicut  Et 
da  Alber  H  tutio  Vefputio  Fiorentino  in- 
titulato  Mon  H  do  Nouo  Nouamente  Im- 
preffa.  ll 

""c  Stampata  in  Venetia  per  Zorzi  de 
Rufconi  milla- 11  nefe  :  Nel  .  M  .  ccccc  . 
xyii  .  adi  .  xyiii  .  Agofto  . 

*  *  Sm    8vo  for  size  (sign.  A  in  fours,  b  to  q  in  eights),  title  one 
*    ?e^f  +  one  hundred'and  twenty-three  unnumbered  leaves 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


464  Bibliotheca  Americana. 
IC20.          \0?>  hi,.   ^NONTMous— ''A  new  interlude  and  a  mery 
of  the   nature   of   the    iiij    elements,   declarynge  miuiy 

proper  poynts  of  phylofophy  naturall,  and  of  dyvers 

ftraunge   landys,    and    of  dyvers    ftraunge   effefts   and 

caufes." 

"  It  treats,  according  to  the  introduction,  among  other  things,  'Of 
certeyn  poynts  of  cofmography,  as  how  and  where  the  fee  covereth 
the  yerth,  and  of  dyvers  ftraunge  regyons  and  landys,  and  whiche 
wey  they  lye,  and  of  the  new  found  landys,  and  the  maner  of  the 
people."' 

Mr.  Collier  quotes  this  passage : 

"  But  this  newe  lands  founde  lately 
Ben  callyd  America,  by  caufe  only 
Americus  dyd  furft  them  fynde." 

"First  impression  dated  25  Oct.,  11  Henry  VIII." — MS.  note  on 
the  Garrick  copy.  The  interlude  will  be  found  described  in  Col- 
lier's Jnna/j  of  the  British  Stage,  ii,  319  ;  Ames's  Typographical  An- 
tiquities (Dibdin),  iii,  105;  Beloe's  Anecdotes,  \,  338-341'. 


^534*         189  his.     yADIAN  {J.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf: 

'  EPITOME  II  TRIVM  TERRAE  PAR  ||  TIVM,  ASIAE,  AFRICAE 
ET  EV  II  ropa  co?npendiar!a7n  locorum  defcriptionem  conti-  ||  «^«;, 
pracipue  autem  quorum  in  AHis  Lucas.,  \\pajjim  autem  Euangelifia 
y'll  Apojhli  meminere  ||  CVM  addito  in  fine  elencho  ||  regi- 
onum.,  urbium.,  amnium,  infu/nrum,  quorum  No-  \\  uo  tcjiamento  fit 
mentio.,  quo  expeditus  pius  Le£for  ||  quae  uelit,  inuenire  queat.  ||  PER 
lOACHiM  VADiA-  ||  NVM  MEDicvM.  ||  TiovRi  apud  Chrijiophovum 
Frofchoue-  ||  rum.,  An  ,  M.  .  D  .  xxxiiii  .  || 

*^*  Sm.  Sw,  title  one  leaf  +  five  hundred  and  sixty-two  pages  + 
six  unnumbered  leaves. 

'  Proceedings  of  the  American  Antiquarian  Society,  Oct.  zi,  1865,  p    28,  sq. 


I 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 
2QOt    ALBERlNO  (N.)— Recto  of  the  firit  leaf: 


465 


I  549- 


f  ^tdaflera  g  Ca  11  plofa  relacton :  totro  lo 
nuniamen  ||  te  fufcetitro  en  los  Megnost  yy  probin  II 
cia  tiel  peru  tientie  la  \m  a  rUo«||tjel  "kJirei)  lilafco 
iittftei  bela  ijaftallel  iefbarato  ij  muerte  tie  (®on= 
palo  pi-|!patro:  fegfl  qlo  bio  i)  efedbio  Bicolao  tie  II 
aitenitto  [sic']  jFlotentitt  al  benefieiatro  ,iFft:na|| 
ruarej  bejino  tre  g>euiUa :  tiirigitia  al  II  exeellente 
Mot  tia  ILufiss  eljdftoual  II  ponee  tie  leo  tjut^ue  tie 
arcos  Hftarpes  tie  ||  ^ai)ata  eoutie  tie  la  fare?  aU 
eatie  magot  tiell^euilla  feftor  tie  la  bUlatieHftar= 
etena  $it.  \\ 

Colophon  : 

acabo^e  la  ptefente  obta  enla  mug  noble  g  me^ 
morable  ciutiati  6  ^euilla  a  tiog  bias  bel  mes  be 
iEneto  bel  afto  be  ittijtifto  be .  IE .  31  .xUx  .  En 
rafa  tie  Juan  tie  Heon.  ^i^bo  primero  manba  ba 
bet  g  examinat  pot  los  mug  teuetlbos  g  mug  mag= 
nificos  g>enotegJ  inquifibotesi :  g  eon  in  Uchia  man= 
baba  hnptimit. 


We  mention  in  our  list  of  works  printed  on  this  con-     I  57  1 

tinent  in  the  sixteenth  century  (page  375)  what  would 

seem  to  be  two  different  editions  of  the  Vocabulario  of 
Molina,  published  in  1571,  whereas  those  two  numbers 
are  only  the  two  parts  of  the  same  work,  viz. :  the 
Spanish  &  Mexican,  and  Mexican  &  Spanish,  dic- 
tionaries, both  of  which  have  a  distinct  pagination,  and 
are  sometimes  bound  in  two  separate  volumes. 

59 


r 


_ 


466  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

1571.  VOCABVLARIO 

'^*™''™*  EN    LENGVA    CASTEI.LANA    Y    MEXICANA,   COM- 

pucfto  por  cl  muy  Reuerendo  Padre  Fray  Alonfo  de  Molina,  dela 
Orden  del  bienauenturado  niieftro  Padre  Sant  Francifco. 

DIRIGIDO    AL    MUY    EXCEl.ENTE    SEfJOR 

Don  Martin  Enriquez,  Viforrey  deftanueua  Efpafla 

Then  the  arms  of  the  Viceroy  Enriquez,  and : 

En  Mexico, 
en  Cafa  de  Antonio  de  Spinofa. 

•1571- 

**  Folio,  title  one  leaf  +  three  leaves  +  leaves  numbered  1-121 
-\-  one  leaf  containing  a  large  woodcut  of  a  man  kneeling,  with 
printer's  mark  on  the  verso,  and  the  first  device  used  by  a 
Mexican  printer,  f/z.  .•  virtus  in  infirmitate  perficitur  ; 
+  one  leaf  for  another  title-page  like  the  above,  except  the 
second  line,  which  reads:  en  lenoua  mexicana  y  castellana, 
and  a  woodcut  of  St.  Francis  instead  of  the  escutcheon  ;  then 
one  leaf  +  leaves  numbered  1-162  ;  colophon  in  Mexican, 
on  the  verso. 

(Private  Library,  New  York.) 


I 


APPENDIX. 


MM 


APPENDIX 


When  describing  the  Paesi  nouamenie  retrovati  of  152 1 
{supra,  page   186),  we  endeavored  to  give  the  reasons 
which  had  led  us  to  ascribe  the  work  to  Alessandro  Zorzi, 
on  the  authority  of  Humboldt.     M.  D'Avezac  having 
called  our  attention  to  the  fact  that  the  word  compilatore, 
in  the  note  of  Baldelli,  did  not  mean  that  Zorzi  was  the 
compiler  of  the  printed  work  known  as  the  Paesi,  but 
only  the  collecto/,  so  to  speak,  of  the  manuscript  addi- 
tions to  the  Magliabechi  copy  of  the  Paesi,  we  requested 
Mr.  James  Lenox,  of  this  city,  to  write  to  one  of  his 
correspondents  in  Italy,  and  secure  a  transcript  of  these 
manuscript  notes,  which  had  not  escaped  the  researches 
of  M.  de  Varnhagen". 

Mr.  Lenox's  correspondent  reported  that  there  had 
actually  been  in  the  Magliabechi  library  a  set  composed 
of  two"^  volumes  ;  ono  lettered  "  Conti"  the  other,  "-Al- 
bericoy  The  Conti  had  been  removed  to  the  Lauren- 
tian  library;  but,  as  according  to  Baldelli's  accountMt 
contained  only  notes  relating  to  the  East,  its  removal, 
so  far  as  we  are  concerned,  was  of  no  moment. 

As  to  the  Alberico,  it  was  found  to  be  composed  of 
two  parts,  one  containing  printed  matter  exclusively',  the 


>  «•  Nous  reservons  pour  une  meiUeure 

occasion  de  traiter  de  deux  volumes  [cl. 
XIII,  No.  81  (non  pas  ii)  S+l  <]"«  Baldelli 
a  fait  connaitre,  dans  lesquels  se  trouvent 
des  feuilles  de  Tedition  vicentine  de  1 507. 
avec  des  additions  manuscrites."  {Bul- 
Ui.  dt  la  Soc.  de  Giogr.,  Vol.  xr,  p.  151.) 


»  Sloria  dtl  Mi/ient  in  //  MUicnt  di 
Marco  Polo,  Vol.  I,  pp.  xxxii-iii,  note   I. 

'  The  correspondent  did  not  state  what 
this  printed  matter  is,  but  the  note  of 
.M.  de  Varnhagen  shows  that  it  consists 
of  an  original  edition  or  parts  of  the 
Patti  of  1507. 


470 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


other  only  manuscript  additions.  This  contained,  on 
the  first  page,  the  following  note  in  the  handwriting  (the 
keeper  said)  of  the  Abbate  Follini,  who  was  librarian 
of  the  Magliabechi  in  iSao:  "8i.  xiii.  Alberico.  8.  A 
pag.  32  si  vede  che  Fautore  'e  un  Alessandro  [one  word 
erased]  Zorzi  [one  word  erased]  che  ^  Cancellato  [three 
words  erased]  V.  Foscarini  />•  3 1 5  del/a  Letterat,  Vene- 


ztana. 


The  first  word  erased  reads,  under  the  erasure  in  the 
manuscript  sent  to  us,  "/orj<?";  th*  second,  "psrche"; 
the  third,  fourth  and  fifth,  ''  oforse  Strozzi." 

To  this  description  was  added  a  very  legible  copy  of 
the  manuscript  notes  which,  in  the  original,  covered 
thirty-five  small  lamo  pages.  These  having  never  been 
printed,  and  seeming  to  us  of  a  very  interesting  character, 
we  republish,  literally,  herewith,  the  entire  manuscript, 
such  as  it  was  kindly  furnished  us  by  Mr.  James  Lenox. 


COPIA  DE  UNA  LETTERA  SCRIVE    SIMONE  DEL  VERDE  FIORENTINO 

IN     CADEZ     LA     qUAL     SCRIVE    A    MATEO    CINI    FIORENTINO 

,^jg  MERCATANTE  IN  VINESIA  I    DI  2  GIENNARO    I498. — C.    II3. 

Non  mi  pare  di  reftar  di  fcrivervi  dille  cofe  di  qua  et  prima 
circa  alia  quantita  di  Zuchari  che  di  Canaria  am.  300.  Et  di 
Madera  non  ciene  ne  funo.  Arete  intefo  de  Navilii  di  Ginea  in 
Lifbona  con  il  governo  in  Girolameo  Sernigi  dio  lo  dia  il  bene 
a  fame.  Et  piu  vi  avifo  efler  venuto  e  navilii  delle  Infule  de  In- 
dia havendo  gia  con  lo  Admirante  che  gia  parti  di  qui  8  mefi 
fono  et  di  dil  fi  partirono  di  la  in  40  di  fi  condufceno  e  efendo  5 
anno  arecati  circa  a  300  fchiavi  et  alcuno  oro  :  et  molto  ver- 
gino  il  quale  edi  tuta  perfe£tione  dicono  elVervi  felve  grandiflime. 
Alia  volta  di  la  difcoperfeno  nove  terre,  tenendofi  verfo  il  megio 
di  o  pill  al  ponente  verfo  megio  di  dove  hanno  trovato  et  dicono 
in  terra  ferma  natione  di  piu  conditione  che  le  altre  trovate  per 
fino  a  hora :  hanno  buone  et  comoda  abitatione  et  afai  vivande 
che  hanno  vini  bianchi  et  vermigli  ma  non  di  uve  di  vite  han- 
no animali  di  quatro  pie  quello  che  non  hanno  li  altri  lochi 
per  inanti  trovati :  furono  da  loro  Re  beniffimo  ricevuti  et  pre- 


Zucari,     Cana- 
ria, 
Madera,  Ginea. 
.1.  Ethiopia. 
Infule  Indie. 

'497. 

Schiavi,  300 
oro  vergino. 

0,  in  mecio. 
Ponente. 
Terra  ferma. 

jibilatione. 
yini.  bi^.icki, 
E  niri  di. 
FruHi,  fuadru- 
pedi. 


Appendix. 


471 


fentati  delle  loro  cofe :  Dicono  eflervi  oro  aflai  ma  che  glie  baffo 
et  oltra  di  quefto  vi  fi  trovano  delle  perle  et  dicono  grofle  et  aflai 
buone  non  vene  pofo  dare  apieno  notitia  dove  le  pel'cano  et  in 
che  modo  et  la  quantita.  Hanno  belliflimo  paefe  molto  verde 
et  fertile  di  abondantiflime  aque  dolce  fituate  :  fono  giente  belli- 
cofe  ufano  rotelle  et  archi :  Navicano  con  grande  legni  voti  d'un 
pecio  cavati  et  hanone  afai.  O'loto  una  copia  d'una  lettera  che 
fcrive  lo  Admirante  al  Re  dandoli  della  imprefa  grande  fperancia. 
Et  e  grande  maraviglia  havere  delle  moltitudine  et  fortia  delle  aque 
dolce  che  ha  trovate  :  Dice  come  quelle  harene  (bno  molto  alte 
Et  hanno  trovato  gran  feche  nelle  t'ocie  del  fiume  in  mod  che  li 
navilii  non  potevono  refiftere  alia  abondantie  delle  aque  dolce  : 
Tale  che  ditte  nave  da  20.  leg.  in  uno  golfo  fempre  trovando  el 
mar  dolcie.  Che  diconvi  quello  che  dice  li  philofophi  che  la 
terra  ha  forma  fpherica.  Et  che  cierto  lo  admirante  ha  havuto 
grande  animo  et  ingiegnio  havere  difcoperto  I'altro  mondo  oppo- 
fito  al  noftro  con  tante  fatiche  et  fudori  et  vifl:o  la  mutatione  che 
fa  la  Tramontana  per  efler  ito  di  la  dalla  linea  del  equinoctiale 
che  mai  lo  harei  creduto  che  ci  potefe  habitare  gli  homeni  che 
ftimavo  fufli  tuta  aqua  et  non  terra  di  giorno  andrano  fcoprendo 
et  harafi  di  tuto  perfecla  cognitione  di  che  di  tuto  quello  fe  in- 
tendera  vi  faru  con  mia  lettere  avifato. 


Oro  baffo. 
Ptrlt. 

Paefe. 
Fertile. 

Bellkoji,     Pro- 
telle,  Anhi. 
Zotioli. 

Aque  dolce. 
Gran  fuimant. 


Mar  dolcie. 
Per  20  leg. 
Of>eni(,n  de. 
MonJo. 


INFORMATIONE   DI  BARTOLOMEO    COLOMBO    DELLA  NAVICATIONE 
DI    PONENTE    ET    GARBIN    DI    BERAGUA    NEL    MONDO    NOVO. 

Del  1505  eflendo  Bartolamio  Colombo  fratello  di  Chrifto- 
phoro  Colombo  da  poi  la  fua  morte  andato  a  Roma  per  haver 
lettere  del  pontifice  al  Re  di  Spagna  chel  volefe  efler  contento  di 
darli  caravelle  in  ordine  di  quel  bifognava  et  fpecialmente  di  frati 
do6ti  in  philofophia  et  Theologia  et  in  la  facra  fcriptura  et  quefto 
perche  fi  oferiva  ritornare  alle  terre  dil  mondo  novo  dove  infieme 
con  ditto  fuo  fratel  havea  del  1503  difcoperte  per  ponente  a 
Garbin  di  la  dalla  Spagnolo  da  miglia  3000  et  trovato  le  mine 
del  Oro  in  Beragua  et  altri  lochi  dove  con  facilita  fi  converteria 
con  facilita  tanti  popoli  alia  fede  criftiana  con  honor  et  utile. 
Di  che  ditto  Bartolomeo  confcfato  da  uno  frate  Hieron'ino  de 
I'ordine  di  frati  canonici  regulari  in  S.  Joanni  Laterano  li  dete 
di  fuo  mano  uno  difegnio  de  litti  di  tal  terre  dove  eron  difcripte  i 
lochi  la  conditione  et  natura  et  coftumi  et  abiti  di  quelli  popoli 
et  efendo  ditto  frate  Hieronimo  qui  in  Venetia  nel  monafterio 


1505. 


1503 


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Bibliotheca  Americana. 


*  [Word  erased 
and  illegible.] 


Ma.  "jm. 
Po.  Rtirelf. 
(Iro. 


Pirio  Bjstimen- 
toi,  Be!  po)  10, 
p.rio   Grcisi. 


Dormono,   fj    li 
Arbori. 

Bfaguii. 

Oro. 

Ma.  60. 

Sur, 

I.  aujirale. 

Oro. 


Cariba. 

Caramharu. 
(ho. 
Cariai. 
Maia. 


SepuUrt. 
Sculfito. 


loro  della  carita  eflendo  mio  amico  mi  dette  el  tal  difegno  et  el 
fimile  mi  dette  in  fcripto  la  conditione  et  popoli  di  tal  paeii  li  quali 
in  brieve  lo  Alex°.*  .  .  .  li  notero  et  prima  cominciando  da  Gar- 
bin  veneando  verfo  lo  Tropico  di  Cancro  dove  e  il  goltb  di  Denol 
fino  dove  non  poteno  cosi  bene  haver  notitia  di   tal  terre  per 
difeto  delle  lor  nave  che  eilendo  abifate  faccvano  tanta  aqua  in 
modo  die  fe  atVetorono  il  partirfi  et  navicaron  vcrib  Spagna  che 
v'era    una   gran  via  da  farfi   miglia.   7000.  queflo   tal   mare   di 
Denol  in  molti  lochi  haveva  poco  tbndo  et  havca  gran  corentia 
di  aque  portito  di  tal  loco  venono  a  iiiio  loco  ditto  retrete  nel 
qual  porto  et  per  tuta  tal  cortiera  maritima  trovoron  gran  copia 
de  Oro  ct  afai   lavorato  optimamente  et  habitata  di  gicnte  afai 
molto  apti  et  ben  difpofti  i  quali  baratavano  il  fuo  Oro  tentuono 
per  cofe  picole  et  di  poco  precio  et  di  li  (corendo  per  tal  colticra 
da  uno  porto  dc  bastimentos  et  per  ei.  bei,  porto  et  a  porto 
UROSSO  nelle  qual  lochi  baii  fono  habitate  da  giente  ruiUcana  et 
hano  afai  abondantia  del  vivere  al  qual  hanno  tuta  la  lor  tantafia. 
Et  le  loro  cafe  et  abitationi  fono  in  cinia  a  grandi  Arbori  altiflimi 
dove  dormono  et  queito  fano  per  dubito  che  egli  hanno  de  nemici. 
Dipoi  feguitando  pur  verfo  lo  Tropico  dil  Cancro  in  el  loco  di 
BERAGA  el  quale  e  aprello  a  uno  fiumc  in  una  gran  Valle  per  le 
concavita  dille  quale  fon  molte  cave  de  Oro  nove  in  le  quale  i 
ditti  Spagnoli  ne  (ricolfono)  afunorono.   Et  quelli  Indiani  del  paefe 
riferirono  che  in  fra  terra  da  circa  a  miglia  60  verfo  la  provintia 
ditta  svR.  ell'er  altre  cave  de  Oro  ct  magior  molto  :  in  le  qual  uno 
certo  Judeo  in  uno  di  afuno  uno  facheto  de  Oro  in  el  quale  era 
marche  do  di  pefo  et  riferi  molte  altre  cofe  admiraiite  Dichon  per 
efl'er  ftato  di  li  nella  vernato  quando  navicorono  in  nello  ebono  di 
gran  piogie  continue  con  molte  fortune  :   Partcndo  di  qui  fegui- 
tando ditta  Colta  trovorono  uno  loco  ditto  careba  dove  e  uno 
fiume  che  ha  oro  in  quello  fecondo  diffe  tal  Indi  eron  con  loro  in 
li  navilii :  et  cosi  vedemo  ditti  popoli  che  ne  portavono  al  collo 
per  colana.     Seguitando  piu  oltre   trovarono  il  moir  et  magior 
porto  che  fia  in  tal  Cofta  il  qual  fi  chiama  carambarv  :  ma  li 
habitanti  fon  molti  filveltri  et  vano  nudi  et  fon  copiofi  di  cofe  et 
cibi  da  vivere  et  de  Oro  et  per  il  gran  caligo  et  bruma  vi  tiovamo 
in  ditto  porto  per  efler  il  verno  per  tal  paura  non  volleno  dimor- 
arvi.     Seguitando  piu  oltre  in  fino  a  una  terra  chiamata  cariai 
in  la  quale  habita  gente  de  bona  forte  che  vivono  de  indullria  et 
mercantia  come  fi  fa  in  la  provincia  la  qual  chiamon  maia.     Sono 
grandi  incantatori  i  quali  come  ci  vidono  difmontare  a  terra  molti 
di  loro  ci  veneno  in  contre  et  ci  recetoiono  con  uno  pie  tenendo 
inanzi  che  e  tra  lor  fegno  di  pace  :   In  quefto  loco  vidono  uno 
Sepulcro  con  fue  volte  di  cube  di  sopra  nelle  qual  era  intagliato 


Appendix. 


473 


diverfi  anitnali  di  varie  nature.  Et  portoronci  porci  vivi  come  i 
noftri :  et  altre  cofe  afai  che  fia  cofa  lunga  da  riferire.  In  tal 
loco  fi  trova  gomma  in  gran  copia  perfedla.  Et  di  qui  parten- 
dofi  par  navicando  verfo  il  pel  artico  per  il  Tropio  dil  Cancro 
iniino  al  voltar  de  uno  Cao  che  va  al  ponente  che  fi  chiama  porto 
di  CONSVCLA  dove  inanzi  il  ditto  mare  le  aque  hanno  gran  corfo 
et  fa  gran  onde  per  ellervi  poco  fondo  in-fino  a  Leghe  20  di 
fpatio  tuto  da  bracia  20  di  fondo  fi  trova  et  non  piu.  Et  cosi 
difcorendo  per  ogni  liga  crefce  uno  brazzo  di  fondo  fi  trova  di 
piu  :  La  terra  ferma  e  feconda  et  da  ogni  hora  et  tempo  le  nave 
pol  gitar  le  fue  ancore.  Tal  mar  dura  per  60  Leghe  dove  navi- 
cando per  60  di  confumorono  cosi  disfcorrendo :  Seguitando 
verfo  ponente  per  tal  liti  pervenuti  a  uno  loco  ditto  tenabaxa 
dal  R.  di  COBRE  :  Dove  le  gente  che  in  tal  lochi  habitano  fono 
molti  bruti  ma  di  bon  corpo  di  color  lionato  con  capelli  lunghi 
fparti.  Le  lor  femine  hanno  grande  orechie  di  grandecia  di 
uno  palmo  et  con  forami  tanto  grandi  che  ci  paferia  uno  pugno. 
Vivono  di  carne  humana  come  fa  i  Canibali.  Et  cosi  etiam  man- 
giano  i  pefci  crudi  cosi  come  li  pigliano  del  mare  fe  li  mangiano 
scntia  cuocerli  :  Et  cosi  li  hano  veduti  mangiar  delle  fpecie 
mangiamo  noi  che  dicono  trovarfi  in  fra  terra  gran  copia.  E 
per  cagion  delle  piogie  grande  v'era  non  poteno  intendere  ne 
cercare  tal  cofe  come  saria  stato  il  loro  difidcrio.  Navicando 
pill  oltre  a  tal  ripe  verfo  ponente  in  fin  al  porto  di  casermas. 
Dove  in  tal  provincia  e  frequente  habitatione  et  gente  molto 
manfucta  et  vergognofa  con  fue  carte  in  modo  fachi  fentta 
maniche  ma  optimamente  lavorati  et  cuopreno  le  loro  vergogne 
con  fue  bragefe  et  hanno  coraze  di  bambafo  si  grofe  et  folte  che 
una  baleltra  non  le  paferia.  Le  femine  fi  veftono  di  li  panni  can- 
didi  et  mangiano  di  quel  medefimo  grano  come  fi  fa  in  I'infula  di 
Banalfa  in  mar  qui  a  rincontro.  Et  oltra  di  quefto  hanno  molte 
galine  grande  come  paoni  ct  gran  copia  di  fricelli  et  altri  aceilami : 
La  infula  di  hanassa  qui  dirincontro  ha  giente  molto  robusta  che 
adorano  li  Idoli.  Et  il  loro  vivere  fi  e  maximamente  di  certo 
grano  biancho  di  grandecia  de  uno  cefare  et  nafce  cosi  come 
nafcie  in  le  balleare  nelle  panochie  del  quale  fano  pane  optimo. 
Et  cosi  fanno  Ccruofa  perfettiHima  :  In  alcune  altre  Infule  fi  e 
la  terra  fimilc  al  Oro  li  crilliani  li  quali  poteno  tore  di  quella  la 
ferbavono  con  diligentia  da  8  mefi  I'afcondevono  exiftimando 
chel  fufi  oro  :  In  querto  loco  pigliorono  una  Nave  loro  carica 
di  mercantia  et  nicrce  la  quale  dicevono  veniva  da  una  cierta  pro- 
vintia  chiamata  maiam  vel  luncatam  con  molte  veste  di  bam- 
basio  de  le  quale  ne  erono  il  forcio  di  sede  di  diversi  colori. 

60 


Porci. 
Goma. 


Oitifucla. 
Corfo  Ji  ajue 
Le.  20. 
Poco  fondo. 


60  Lt. 

PoHintt 

Tenabaxa. 
F.  Cohre. 

Orechie  grandi. 

Canibali. 
yintrofo. 
Ictiofhagi. 
Sfeciarie 


Porto  di  Cafer- 

mat. 
Lavori. 

Lavori  oflimi. 
Bragefe,  toroKe. 

Banajfa  infula. 
Pane  di  grano. 
Galine,  fricelli. 
Infula  Banaffa. 
Idoli. 

Sorgi  Hancki. 
Pane. 
Ceruofa. 
Oro  fimil, 
non  bono. 
Nave  carica. 
Maiam  vel  lun- 

catem. 
fette    di   bam- 

bafio,  efeda. 


474 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


Mtrce. 

I.jma,    Infu.'a 
(Jajuca. 

Imuld  Mana'va. 

Infula  Olava. 

*  "  La  (jual  i 
I'cripla  da  poi 
cAearaivollU' 
to  carle  izche 
feguila  la 
fual." 

^FOLLINI  ?] 


Da  poi  ditta  Infula  di  banala  navicando  verfo  ponente  fine  a  uno 
Cao  de  Lama  trovoronc  poco  luntano  da  terra  3  infule  cioe  la 
prima  chiamata  OAfivELOiR.  la  fecoiula  manava  :  la  terra  oa- 
LAVA.  di  poi  non  navicoron  piii  oltri  et  voltoron  la  proa  per  le- 
vante  verfo  la  Cuba  et  la  Spagnola  per  cller  Ic  lor  nave  male  in 
afeto  che  eron  abifatc  diflbn  molte  altre  cofe  le  quale  non  dico 
perche  per  la  lettera*  che  fcrive  Chriftophoro  Colombo  fuo 
fratel  al  Re  di  Spagnia  come  intenderete. 


FEDE    ET    SUPERSTITIONE    ET    COSTUMI    DE     l'INSULA    SPAGNOLA 
MANDATAMI  DA  FERRARA  PER  MESSER  7.UANE  DE  STROZI. 


149a. 


Bartolomto    Co- 
lombo. 

Libra  di  cojlumi 

Fanlafmate. 

Simulacri. 

Figure. 

Zemtn. 

Jocauna. 

Gjamanocon. 

Attaheira. 

Mamonia. 

Guacarafita. 

Jietla. 

Guimazoa. 

Ctf-iii  m. 
Caaibajagaca 

Ipelonca. 
Amaiauna, 
Machocail. 


Mirabolani, 


Quando  Chriftophoro  Colombo  1492  tiovo  le  infule  Spagnole 
tra  le  altre  cofe  rcferivan  fi  fu  che  li  popoli  di  ditta  infula  non 
adoravono  altro  che  il  cielo  pianeti  e  iklle.  Ma  da  poi  che 
I'anno  habitata  et  imparato  la  lingua  I'un  con  I'altro  fi  fono 
dimefticati  hanno  cognofuto  quelli  haver  varie  cirimcnie  et  varie 
coftumi  come  per  il  frate  heremita  Romano  che  Bartolomco 
Colombo  fratello  di  ditto  Chriftophoro  condufe  da  Roma  in  Hno 
a  ditta  Infula  per  amaeftrar  et  ridur  ditti  Infulani  alia  fede  noftra 
criftiana  di  che  compofe  uno  libro  di  lor  coftumi.  Delli  cjuali 
in  queihi  di  alquanti  fi  dira.  Et  prima  dicono  in  ditta  infula  la 
node  aparere  alcune  fantafmate  et  vifioni  che  loro  infenfati  con- 
ponono  alcuni  fimulacri  i  quali  vengono  adorare  et  sentando  in 
terra  fu  coltre  di  bambafo  figurono  alcuni  boni  denioni  come  da 
noi  fi  piatrica.  Et  queftri  fimulacri  chiamano  zemen  i  quali 
adorano  per  dii  eterni  che  dicono  eft'er  dua  cioe  chiamono  i'^ 
Jocauna  e  I'altro  magior  Guamanocon  :  e  (juali  dicono  aver  5 
madre  che  una  a  nome  Attaheira  :  Mamonia  :  Guacarapita  : 
Jiella :  Guinazoa  :  In  ditta  infula  e  una  Regione  che  fi  chiama 
caunana  dove  per  grote  di  dui  monti  dicono  eft'er  ufito  la  genera- 
tione  di  homini  cioe  dalla  magior  fpelonca  la  magior  parte:  et  dalla 
minor  fpelonca  ala  minor  Cauta  chiamono  ditti  monti  et  la  magior 
fpelonca  chiamono  Cazibafagaca  la  minor  Amaiauna.  Et  il  pri- 
mo  che  da  ditta  Caverna  uiite  chiamato  Machochacl  il  qual  havea 
guardia  di  ditta  bocha  ogni  nocile  ufite  fuori  per  poca  diftantia 
et  vifto  in  I'aurora  il  fole  non  potcndo  foporta  di  veder  tal  luce  fi 
transformo  in  Saxo  :  Et  cosi  dimoiti  altri  che  di  nocte  ufivono 
di  tal  Caverna  per  andar  a  pefcare  et  non  pofcndo  ritornar  inanci 
che  il  fole  fi  levafe  di  che  vifto  tal  luce  per  la  pena  che  non  li  era 
licito  veder  di  fubito  fi  tramutorono  i  li  arbori  che  fano  i  Mira- 
bolani   che  in  detta  infula  nafcono  da  lor  pofta  in  quantita  fentia 


Appendix. 


475 


efler  piantati :  Dicono  ancori  un  principal  chiamato  Vaguoniona 
il  qual  mandaco  uno  fuo  famieio  a  pcfcar  tuor  di  ditta  Cavcrna 
per  non  cli'er  potutu  tornar  ancura  lui  inanci  fi  levafi  il  Sole  fi 
tramutu  in  uno  luHgnolo.  II  quali  ulcello  ogni  anno  dipoi  in  la 
noiStc  ct  in  cl  tempo  tu  convcrtito  di  ucello  canta  et  fi  lutnenta  di 
tal  fua  mala  forte  di  che  al  luo  patrone  chiamaro  Vaguonionc 
dimanda  aiiito  :  Et  per  qiicKo  dicono  che  il  lufignuolo  canta  di 
note.  Dipoi  il  ditto  Vaguonione  il  qual  amava  grandemente 
ditto  luo  t'amiglio  li  partite  di  tal  I'pelonca  et  condufe  tora  i'ola- 
mente  le  fcminc  con  lui  tancielli  li  ({uali  lactavano  et  andoron  a 
una  Inlula  di  li  poco  dillante  la  quale  e  chiamua  mathinina. 
dove  lafcio  dittc  t'cmine  et  riporto  leco  e  tanculini  dipoi  la^ti 
aprclo  a  uno  tiumiccllo  comincior  a  pianger  dicendo :  toa  toa.  i. 
mama  mama  in  mode  furo  convertiti  in  Ranochi  et  per  queAo 
dico  in  la  primavera  tal  ranochi  cominciono  a  cantar  :  Et  in 
quello  modo  dicono  li  homini  eller  ufiti  da  ditte  Caverne  et  Iparli 
per  tuta  ditta  Inlula  Spagnola  fenci  lor  t'cmine.  Et  cosi  dico 
ditto  Vaguoniona  vagando  per  diverfi  lochi  et  per  gratia  fpecial 
mai  eller  llato  transformato  lb  non  da  una  tormola  Icmina  la  qua* 
vide  in  marc  dove  dilelc  et  da  lei  have  cierti  quaguleti  marmorei 
i  quali  chiamano  Cibas  et  ancor  certe  taolete  auree  li  qual  chia- 
mon  Guanioncs.  Queltc  tal  giemc  legate  in  Hno  a  quello  giorno 
aprelb  e  loro  Re  fono  tenute  e  reverite  come  cole  (acre.  Li 
homeni  che  lencia  le  lor  fcminc  rimafcnc  in  la  I'pelonca  ditfia  di 
fopra  la  nodle  lavadi  tuti  in  cierti  folic  dove  era  adunato  aqua 
atai  piovana  le  ne  ulirono  et  in  rino  a  quelto  tempo  ulano  tal 
bagni  :  e  fubito  uliti  dicono  concorfeno  alii  albori  Mirabolani 
dove  per  fopra  caminavono  infinite  formi  che  adunate  et  loro 
con  le  mani  come  tante  femine  le  qua'  llringendo  fcorevono  hior 
delle  mani  come  le  full  Itate  anguille  :  Vanno  a  dimandar  con- 
figlio  da  vechi  conltglieri  et  vano  a  ccrcar  le  alcuno  tra  lo  ci  e 
che  fia  rogniofi  e  levrofi  over  che  habino  le  man  callofe  et  al'pere 
acio  polla  ritencre  quelle  con  mani  tacilmcnte  :  et  quelli  tal  ho- 
mini li  chiamono  Caracaracolc :  Et  cosi  vano  a  caciar  et  benche 
ne  piglan  moltc  nientc  dimeno  non  ne  tengon  fe  non  quatro  le 
qual  ulano  per  femine.  Et  dicon  mancar  loro  !a  fua  natura.  Et 
por  (]uclto  dicono  ritornan  dalli  vechi  per  configlio  acio  che  loro 
li  mandino  Tuccllo  pico  che  con  luo  beco  acuto  intri  in  le  code 
loro  oprcndo  la  natura  a  dite  femine  dove  da  quelle  e  poi  dilefb 
li  altri :  Et  (jui  e  da  maravigliare  conic  fi  lege  di  Mvrmtdone 
da  greci  difcripto  in  taiiti  voluini  che  dalle  formiche  elFer  dileti  e 
mvrmidoni :  Siche  in  quello  modo  i  lor  lapienti  con  gra\ita  et 
riputation  i  lor  pergoli  ct  lochi  eminenti  danno  a  intendere  a  li 
ditti  Infulani  fimplicioti  a  perfuaderli  il  credere  quelte  tal  cole  per 


Tut  Tm. 


aiML 


..raLMmitnrt. 


Vtrmiikt. 


Pzn  act'.U. 
Mirm;Jr.r. 


476  Bibliotheca   Americana. 

Origimt  dii  vere  ct  facre.  Circa  a  I'origine  del  Mare  dicono  efler  ftato  in 
man.  jaia.  ditta  Infula  uno  potentiflimo  homo  chiamato  Jaia  il  quale  (fie) 
uno  uiiico  fiolo  il  quale  ufite  di  una  Zucha  in  loco  di  fepulcro 
edificato  dipoi  quefto  Jaia  pafati  alquanti  mefi  inpacienti  per  la 
morte  del  fio  tornb  a  ditta  Zucha  la  qual  aperfe  ufite  una  gran 
balena  et  ferata  la  ditta  Zucha  ....  convicini  ai  mari  per  la  qual 
fama  quatro  gioveni  nati  in  uno  portato  cun  I'perancia  di  haver 
tal  pcfcc  in  la  Zucha  la  prefe  con  le  mazi.  Supravenuto  Jaia  il 
quale  havea  incufo  li  ofli  in  tal  Zucha  quelli  Juveni  infpauriti  per 
tal  facrilegio  ne  non  efl'er  acufati  per  tal  furto  da  Jaia.  Et  vog- 
lando  fugcr  la  Zuca  li  caso  in  terra  per  il  gran  pe(o  ct  fe  rupe  et 
per  tal  Hfure  ufite  fora  il  Mare  il  quale  (correndo  per  le  valle 
et  per  la  gran  planicie  circoncirca  impiendo  etieto  che  le  cime  de' 
monti  et  lochi  eminenti  che  rimafeno  fcopcrti  et  cauforono  le 
infule  le  qua'  al  prefente  fi  vegono.  Et  ancor  dicono  che  qucUi 
fratelli  per  paura  di  Jaia  andoron  fugendo  per  diverfi  lochi  in 
modo  che  da  fame  fi  mancono  per  non  haver  ardimento  di  fcr- 
marfi  ct  andorono  a  bater  la  porta  de  un  fornaro  ca  zabi  uno 
pane  dimanc'ando  ditto  fornaro  nel  intrar  feceno  in  cafa  loro  li 
fputorono  adofo  in  tal  fputo  perniciofo  per  il  qual  morite  ditto 
fornaro.  Configlatofi  i  ditti  fratelli  con  una  prieta  agucia  lo 
aperfono  per  la  qual  fcrita  nafete  una  femina  et  i  ditti  fratelli  la 
uforono  infieme  da  la  qual  nafete  et  mafchi  et  femine.  Oltra  a 
quefto  dicono  chi  fi  trova  una  fpelonca  che  fi  chiama  Javanaboina 
dal  nomc  de  uno  Re  di  quel  paefe  il  quale  fi  chiama  Machinnech 
il  quale  e  uno  loco  piu  religiofo  tra  loro  che  non  e  S.  Jacopa  di 
Galitia.  El  quale  e  ornato  di  moltc  picture  varie  et  ha  due  porte 
fculpte  di  quelli  fuo  demoncs  che  chiamon  Zemes  dille  qual  una 
chiamon  Bintaitalle  I'altra  Marochum  et  dimandato  loro  perche 
con  tanta  divotione  adoron  ditta  fpelonca  dico  che  il  fole  e  la 
luna  ufiron  fuor  di  li  per  inluminaril  mondo  :  et  con  gran  gravita 
quefti  infenfati  dicono  quefte  cofe.  El  tal  Spelonca  ha  tanto  con- 
corfo  di  perfone  che  vano  et  vengono  come  fa  in  nelli  noftri 
tempii  in  li  gran  perdoni.  Et  un  altro  modo  di  fuperftitione 
dicono  che  da  poi  la  morte  vano  vagabondi  et  che  fi  pafono  de 
uno  frudto  de  uno  Arboro  che  nafce  tra  loro  fimile  a  uno  Co- 
togno  a  nui  igcognito.  Et  converfare  tra  i  vivi  piglando  forma 
de  homeni  dormire  con  le  fue  femine  et  inganarle  et  come  ven- 

yifitilt.  gono  in  ful  compir  del  foticio  vano  in  vefibile.     Et  fe  per  ventura 

alcuni  fufpetano  di  giafer  con  i  morti  fentendo  qualche  nova  cofa 
in  leto  ufando  alcun  mormorar.  Et  fi  dicon  che  li  Morti  pof- 
fono  pigliar  ogni  membro  humano  ecieto  che  lo  imbeligo  et  cosi 
al  obelico  fi  cognofce  fe  fon  morti  ho  vivi :  Et  cosi  credono  che 
fpefo  di  nocte  per  le  vie  publice  fe  incontrano  morti  afai  et  fe  quel 


yavanaioina . 

Machinntch. 

PiBurt. 
Porte  jculftt. 
DtmoMts. 
Bintaitallt. 
Marocho. 

Spclomca. 


ArboTo  fimile 
al  codtgno. 


Appendix. 


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che  camina  noii  fi  metera  paura  dicono  chc  la  fantafma  fe  rifolve : 
Et  fe  I'ara  paura  perfevererano  in  modo  che  quelli  tali  rimarano 
lefi  et  I'tupidi :  Dimandati  dalli  noftri  dove  inparano  tal  coftumi 
vani  che  e  una  pefte  fra  loro  dicono  haver  per  hcredita  dai  fuel 
magiori.  Et  chc  non  c  licito  infegnar  tal  cofe  et  canti  fe  non 
alii  tioli  dclli  Re  ct  dicono  mai  haver  lettcre  fra  loro  e  tuto  con 
la  mcmoria  prefcrvano.  Et  i  li  di  feftivi  cantano  et  fonano  i 
pupoli  come  fi  fa  a  li  di  facri  et  hanno  uno  folo  infturmento  di 
legno  concavo  dito  Rcboans  in  modo  uno  timpano  :  et  li 
fui  facerdoti  auguri  i  quali  fi  chiamon  Boviite  che  li  acodumano 
di  tal  fuperltitione.  Et  cosi  fono  i  Medici  che  infegnono  a 
mile  donne  vechie  infcnfate  plebee  di  mile  fraude.  Item  i  ditti 
auguri  conftringono  i  ditti  plebei  a  credere  il  tuto  per  efl'er 
di  grandc  aut'lorita  aprefo  d'efi  che  dicon  parlar  con  Zemes 
et  chc  tuto  fano  :  Li  Boviti  li  conltringono  a  degunar  et  pur- 
garfc :  Pignano  una  cierta  polvcre  di  una  herba  la  qua  bevono 
et  fubito  '^\  convcrtono  in  uno  furor  a  modo  obriache  gemcndo  et 
per  rifanarfe  piglano  qualche  calculo  di  prieta  o  peco  di  carte  in 
bocha.  Et  fo  circondati  atorno  da  quelli  Boviiti  da  3.  ho  4  volte 
torcando  la  fatia  Ic  labra  con  bruti  gelli  fufiando  li  amalai  el  colo 
le  tempic  e  la  fronte  piglando  aierc  e  dicono  tirar  via  tuto  il  mal 
che  hanno  in  le  vene  che  li  tengono  in  malatia  fregando  ditti 
amaliiti  si  le  cofe  come  et  le  gambc  et  petignone  et  con  le  man 
coniunte  infieme  corono  verfa  la  punta  aperta  lavandofi  ( ? )  le 
mani  ct  a  quefto  modo  perfuadena  haver  caciato  il  morbo :  quello 
chc  dirictro  ticnc  in  bocha  uno  pezo  di  carne  verfo  come  prelti- 
giatore  crida  dicendo  cio  chel  mangera  ultra  alia  fua  necefita. 
Tu  Itarai  fano  perche  ho  ritrato  il  mal.  Et  fe  el  vede  che 
I'amalado  Ilia  mal  li  da  ad  intender  che  el  fuo  Zemen  e  corociato 
con  lui  per  non  lo  haver  honorato  come  el  dovea  ne  fabricatoli 
qualche  loco.  Et  fe  lo  amalato  moriva  li  fui  parenti  eron  con- 
Itreti  di  confefare  efler  con  fui  venefitii  moito  et  fi  per  non  haver 
redlamcnte  iciunato  ne  eciam  dandoli  buone  medecine.  Et  fi  i 
medici  Boiiti  fufen  fta  caufa  di  fua  morte  facevono  vcadita  di 
ditto  Boiito.  Dc  le  prietuze  over  ofli  che  ditto  Boiito  portafe 
in  bocha.  Se  ditti  prietuze  et  offi  fono  legate  et  poltc  invoke 
in  panni  fervate  con  fcdc  giovono  afai  alii  fuoi  fanculli  et  ditte 
feminc  tengon  ditte  priete  ct  offi  come  zemii :  I  ditti  Infulani 
vogliono  che  fia  varii  zemes  i  quali  adorano  alcuni  che  vengono 
di  note  in  vifione  tra  li  arbori  li  fculpifcono  di  legno  :  Altri  che 
daran  rifpofta  tra  i  faxi  li  fcolpifcono  di  marmoro  :  Alcuni  che 
intra  le  radice  di  erbe  chc  mangiono  in  loco  di  pane  chiamate 
Dies  che  ditte  zenes  hano  cura  di  tal  pane  per  efler  lor  cibo. 
Come  apreilb  delli  antiqui  le  Driades  Amadryades  ct  Satyri  et 


Non  hanno  let- 

ttrt. 
Cantar.  Sonar. 
Inlurmcnio. 

Boviilt, 


Polvtre  de 
Htrba  in/ana. 


Medicamenli. 


Sculpture. 


Die,. 

Driaetet. 

jimadriadtt. 


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Saliri,  Panni. 
Nireidt. 


Herha    Chokob- 
ba. 


I  mi 


Spiriiaii. 


Guaccanarillo. 
Corocholti). 


Miracol. 


Slalua    Miir- 
moria. 


pani  et  Nereide  de  t'onti  Selve  et  mari  hovevon  cura  :  Et  cosl 
ditti  Infulani  a  ciachedun  il  fuo  zemes  il  quale  lo  chiamano  in 
ogiii  lor  bifogni  :  Et  cosi  nello  evcnimeiito  dilla  gueira  ct  in  la 
careftia  et  abondanfia  il  fuo  (fu)  che  i  fui.  Re  vogliono  con- 
figlio  dimandono  a  ditto  Zemes  :  et  vanno  in  la  caxa  dcdicata  a 
Zemes  e  forbendo  per  le  nave  di  quello  polverc  dell'  htrba  dita 
Chohobba  la  quale  i  Boviiti  fabito  convertife  in  furor  che  li  par 
che  tuta  la  caxa  fi  volta  a  roverfo  da  fondamenti  e  por  chc  li 
homeni  caminino  alia  roverfa.  Tanta  tbrcia  ha  in  fi  ditta  Cha- 
hobba  che  fubito  toglic  i  fenfi  a  chi  la  piglia  che  divcnton  pazi 
et  dormentano  e  brazi  e  ginochi  et  elevato  i  fumi  alia  telta  li  fa 
lor  venir  una  lente  fonolentia  torcendo  li  ochi  verfo  il  ciclo  et  par- 
lando  cofc  confufe  et  quelli  primarii  della  cafa  che  foli  con  voce 
grandc  cridano  dimandando  gratia  (Ma  non  voiono  che  niuno 
de'populari  entrano  a  tal  facrihtio)  di  chc  dicono  che  el  Zemis  e 
venuto  loro  a  parlare  et  ridicono  quello  hanno  vifto  dicendo  che 
quando  quel  inebriate  apriva  la  bocha  che  il  Zemes  li  parlava  : 
Et  che  fe  fera  fame  o  pefte  o  ricever  alcuna  victoria  a  abondantia 
over  tuto  quello  ha  intraveni  et  efler  che  il  fuo  Zemes  tuto  li  dice. 
Come  ctiam  dicono  li  antiqui  del  fpirito  Apollinco  che  par  che 
quella  fuperftitione  che  erano  aprefo  li  antiqui  non  fia  pcrfa  come 
generalmente  di  fopra  di  tal  Zemes  fe  e  ditto.  Circa  alle  partic- 
ular delli  qual  dicano  ditti  Infulani  diremo  di  alcuni.  Uno  Re 
ditto  Guamareto  dicono  havea  un  Zemes  che  havea  come  Coro- 
chotus  il  qual  tegniva  aligato  di  fopra  al  colmo  della  cafa  el  qua' 
fecurava  (fu)  il  quale  per  cafon  di  coito  over  per  mangiar  rom- 
peva  i  ligani  et  fe  andava  a  fcondere  in  cierte  rupe  dc  moni  et 
cosi  cruciato  per  alcuni  di  fi  fcondeva  :  et  quefto  pcrchc  ditto 
Re  Guamareto  havea  mancato  dil  fuo  orar  ne'  facri.  Item  dicon 
che  in  ditta  regio  in  una  Villa  di  Guamareto  fi  fie  uno  fanciullo 
che  havea  due  corone  ftimando  ell'er  fiol  di  Corochoto  Zemis  Di 
che  dico  quefto  Re  Guamareto  fu  vinto  in  bataia  dal  fonimico  et 
fuli  ruiaii.i  la  caxa  et  guafto  ditta  fua  Villa  fi  con  fogo  e  ferro 
dice  quefto  Corochoto  brufando  la  cafa  ufci  de  fui  ligami  et  poi 
fu  trovato  luntano  p'u  de  uno  miglio.  Un  altro  Zemen  chia- 
mato  Epileguarita  di  legno  di  quatro  pie  il  (juale  fpefo  fugiva  alle 
felve  dal  loco  dove  era  adorato  et  con  fupliche  piatofe  fabricatoli 
uno  tempiuzo  I'axportorono.  Et  di  poi  gionto  i  criftiani  Spag- 
noli  a  ditta  infula  quefto  fe  ne  fugi  et  mai  piu  dipoi  e  ftato  tro- 
vato et  quefto  fu  augurio  de  la  lor  perdita  dilla  patria  loro. 
(Quefto  f'c  aintefo  dai  vechi.  Un  altro  Zcmen  Marmoreo  i 
quali  quefti  adoravono  di  Saxo  femineo  al  qua  dui  miniftri  mafculi 
havevono  cura  de  efo  :  uno  di  quefti  havea  I'offitio  di  pcone  et  i 
altri  Zemes  in  aufilio  dilla  femina  inperantc  a  concitar   vento 


Appendix.  479 

nehule  et  piogie.     Un  altro  dicuno  per  mandato  di  tal  fcmine 

faccndo  difcciidere  dai  aiti  monti   le  aque  et  congregaric  in  le 

valle  in  modo  di  fiume  fcorrendo  per  li  campi  et  gual'tandu  il  tuto 

(f  gia  tal  popoli  non  fi  corcgiefeno  et  adoiafono  con  dcbiti  modi. 

Un  altra  gran  cola  dirtmo  dcgna  di  memoria  e  quali  dicon  ditti  Guanonmit. 

Infulani  cioc  chc  fono  ftati  duo  Re  dil  qual  uno  ditto  Giiarionexio  5  d\  dif^iuno 

gia  ditto.     II  (|ualc  per  cin(|ue  di  continui  non  mangio  ne  beve 

et  ijuefto  per  obtignir  gratia  dal  zemcs  di  peter  intcndcre  le  cofe 

hitiire  di  chc  li  fu  concefo  tal  gratia  dal  fuo  zcmcs  per  tal  deguno  Profuia. 

Chc  fii  qucfto  che  li  dillc  chc  non  pallcria  tropi  anni  chcl  veria 

una  gcntc  veCt  ta  di  panni  a  ditta  infula  la  qual  ruincrci  la  lor  fede 

et  coftumi   et  cerimonie  i  quali  tuti  tuti   peririano  et  farian  fati 

("crvi  et  privi  di  ogni  bene  di  che  la  guventu  ftimorono  tulFi  (luelto 

per  caufa  di  canibali   limavono  (fic)  di  che  come  fentivono  che 

C^nibali  arivafc  a  lor  Ripe  tuti  fugivano  per  dubito  di  tal  aveni- 

meiito  di  che  tcmcvono  cilero  a  le  mani  con  loro.      Ma  come 

vidoiio  che  li  hifpani  arivorono  a  la  lor  Infula  ii  congregorono 

tuti  inficmc  ct  conclufono  (luclta  eller  la  gente  chc  havea  prot'e- 

ti/:iUi   la   /emcs  ditta  (Che  in  vcro  non  parlo  indarno)  perche 

intrato  i  cril'tiani  tuti  fono  fati  criftiani  et  morti  li  oftinati  fi  che 

noil   c'e   pill   mcntione   di  zemcfe  per  '•Her  ftati  tuti  portati   in 

Sp.ijjna  acio  li  lia  cognofuto  e  fuo  demoni  et  fua  fallacia.     Molte 

altre  cofe  circa  a  quefte  fe  haria  potuto  dir  ma  quefte  per  hor 

bafta. 

DESCRIPTIO  DI  COSE  TROVATE  PER  CASTIGMANI  IN  UN  DIS- 
CORSO  DAL  1500  INFINO  AL  I5IO  DA  DIVERSIE  CARAVELLE 
IN    qUESri    DIECE    ANNI. — C.    IIJ.J. 

I  Litti  della  provincia  Paria  che  nel  Occeano  verfo  Garbin  da  ^<"''"  f<'-^">- 
Chriltophoro  Colombo   del   1498  a  li  Liti  del  mondo  Novo  fa     "^' 
fcoperta  ct  cosi  da   Vuntrienne  (sic)  et  da  pincone  in  fin   1500  1500. 
come  nolli  anteccdenti  libri  fi  legie  di  poi  per  fino  al  1510  c  (tato  1510. 
Icopcrto  in  quelH  diece  anni  non  folum  da  Colombo  dito  ma  da 
molti  altri  i  ijuali  dicono  per  lungo  tracto  andando  verfo  ponente 
vogliono  i\  vadi  a  coniungere  con  i  liti   Indici  fono  prima  divcn- 
uti  in  due  Regioni  nove  da  poi  didla  Paria  cioc  Heragua  trovata  biraoua 
per  ditto  Colombo  1502.  et  dipoi  de  una  altra  da  altri  chiamata  1502. 
vuAVA  Le  quale  fono  picno  di  Oro  et   Incenib  et  dove  fi  ulano  ''"'*'"*• 
Colane  d'oro  le  qual  furono  aprefentate  et  coli  inccnfi  ma  prima  co1aiie"d'orl 
hebeno  molte  guerre  da  loro  tamen  per  eller  mal  armati  et  quafi 
nudi  ne  furono  morti  alai  ma  in  ogni  modo  fono  homeni  feroci  ^"^  ■«"""""'■ 
et  ulano  le  frece  avenenate  con  fue  lancete  acute.    Trovafi  molti  L'""'*- 


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ytfptrtilhiii 

viniHofi. 
Torlori, 


\U»Jir»  mari- 


Un    allra    Eu 
rtpa. 


Amifodi. 

forminio, 
Hlrbl. 

Fcrci. 


cviA  J/ela, 


Ort. 

I/o/a  S.  lovaiii. 


■I 


animali  come  ucclli  varii  da  li  noftri,  c  vcfpcrtilioni  ct  Tortore 
grande :  et  in  el  far  della  fi-ra  ditto  notolc  tifivon  fuori  le  (|ual 
hanno  morder  vencnofo  che  inducevuno  rabia  di  chc  li  fu  fortia 
fuger  di  la  come  fe  le  fufin  Arpie  :  Alcuni  che  in  tcna  ("u  e  liti 
una  nodtc  uno  di  loro  fu  da  uno  monlhc  marino  prc(b  ct  purtatu 
in  mar  in  r.infpeifto  di  compagni  et  lui  cridandu  rocorfo  non  lo 
poteno  aiutare.  In  ditte  terre  edificaro  Roche  c  aui  {sic).  Regal 
et  non  contentono  ne  confentono  ma  poco  dclidcruno  tor  tal 
peCo  tamen  luplicano  al  Re  che  li  mandino  a  tor  tal  provincie. 
yuefti  Ion  langi  trat^ti  et  gran  terre  et  abple  come  e  un  altra  Eu- 
ropa  \i  di  terra  firma  come  etiam  dc  Inlole  c  piu  tollo  la  (Upera 
ecieto  che  quelle  che  a  megio  di  a  Icopertc  i  portagalcii  le  tjualc 
fon  grande.  Sichc  c  di  noftri  ai  gran  laude  a  la  Hifpania  haver 
trovatu  quefti  lochi  incogniti  di  tante  miliona  de  Antipodi. 

Li  Inl'ulani  hano  provato  che  il  noftro  pane  di  grano  e  di  piu 
nutrimento  del  loro  et  per  quefta  caulii  molti  le  amalano  et  il  Re 
ha  fato  che  in  ditti  lochi  fi  fcmini  per  ditte  Infule  et  ditto  formeiuo 
i  quale  nal'e  con  le  (iie  gambc  di  paia  grol'e  et  piene  et  le  I'piche 
grande  frape  fentia  grano :  Kt  cosi  le  herbc  grande  e  mollc 
crefon  come  il  formento  ingrafa  i  bclHami  ma  fa  le  carne  fipide 
et  le  oUa  fentia  medola  opur  fe  le  fon  piene  Ion  anguofc  :  ct 
cosi  fono  i  porci  ma  lalubri  et  lipidi  f'ingralano  di  certi  fruti 
filveftri  chc  mangiono  volentieri :  Molti  fono  fugiti  per  I'infula 
et  fati  felvatici  non  hano  animali  quadrupedi  fe  non  vi  Ion 
portati.  Galine  et  altre  volatilli  ucelli  vi  fonoafai  et  grandi 
per  le  bone  herbe  che  con  quelle  iientia  altro  grauo  f'ingra- 
fano.  La  Infula  cvba  chc  c  viuna  a  ditta  Spagnola  la  quale 
in  el  principio  per  la  fua  lungetia  ftimorono  fufli  terra  con- 
tingente  et  hano  la  poi  trovata  eller  Infula:  di  che  non  e  da 
maraviare  fe  li  habitanti  quando  i  noftri  la  navicorono  dicevono 
efler  fentia  tine  :  e  quello  perche  tal  gcnte  c  nuda  et  non  fono 
infatiabili  et  ftano  contenti  dil  loco  dove  nafcono,  et  poco  curano 
di  quel  fano  lor  vicini  ;  ct  non  vano  cercando  le  loto  il  ciclo  v'  e 
altra  habitatione  fe  non  di  quella  che  hanno  fi  contentono.  La 
ditta  Cuba  da  levante  a  poncnte  e  piu  lunga  afai  della  Spagnola 
ma  da  Septcntrioiie  a  megio  di  non  e  li  larga  :  Et  e  terra  ferace 
et  molto  amena  ma  non  habonda  Oro.  Non  tropo  diftante 
da  Oriente  dalla  Spagnoli  li  trova  un  altra  Infula  grande  la  meta 
manco  d'ell'a  che  li  Spagnola  e  chiamata  dai  noftri  S°.  Iovani* 
quafi  quadrata.  In  la  quale  fon  richie  minerc  d'oro  :  ma  pero 
atendono  a  cavar  in  la  Spagnola  ct  per  ancori  non  hano  pofto 
maeftri  a  cavar :  ma  tutavia  fi  comincia  aparechiare.  In  la 
Spagnola. fe  atende  con  ogni  folicitudine  a  cavar  Oro  et  hanno 
pofto  tal  ordine  :  Cioe  che  tuti  quelli  (cacichi)  Reguli  chc  hanno 


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homini  afai  apti  a  far  tal  cxi-rtitio  hano  configato  che  prima  quelli 
populi  a  uno  cicrto  tempo  di  I'aiino  vcngono  ciafcuiio  a  trovare 

3uelli  fui  Reguli  ct  qui  vcngonu  alle  miiicrc  cun  lUi  Inltrumcnti 
a  cavar  chc  li  vicn  loro  ila  mai-lhi  coiifignati  :  it  ilal  Co  cacichio 
li  e  Ihitiiito  per  (ua  mcrto  di  cavar  oltra  alle  I'pcli-  di  bocha  una 
certa  portioiic  :  Di  poi  che  haiino  lavorato  li  partaiio  a  uno  ccrtu 
tempo  quando  e  il  tempo  dil  feminar  clic  per  vivere  hilognia 
vadinu  a  foi  lochi  con  liii  Ihimienti  et  vano  nudi  et  in  c|uelto 
modo  atendono  a  I'agricultura  ct  alle  minere  ct  mal  volcntieri 
fupurtano  tal  fatiche  :  Kt  (juaiido  coltoro  vanu  ai  fuui  Caciclii  o 
Regali  vano  come  la  i  militi  ai  fuo'  Cenrurioni  :  o  come  i  lavor- 
anti  dal  fuo  patroiie  :  Et  le  l()nu  storciati  IpeCo  fugono  alii  monti 
ct  Celve  :  Et  fono  piu  contcnti  di  vivere  di  cole  fiKelhe  che 
durare  tal  fatiche.  Hanno  lafato  in  tuto  e  lor  coltuini  ct  rcli- 
jioni  antique;  Sono  boni  crilHani  ct  piamente  prcdicano  de  ella  : 
noltri  acultumano  et  inlcguano  a  li  tioii  di  (|uelli  Reguli  in 
caxa  :  Et  cosi  facilmente  li  puti  imparano  la  lingua  nol'tra  ct  cof- 
tumi  :  Et  come  Ion  grandi  li  mandano  a  cafa  loro  .  Sono  fati 
dot^ti  in  la  fcdc  criltiaiui  et  tra  loro  li  amano  ct  cosI  con  alicgrc 
et  bone  perlualion  li  conducano  alle  minere  a  lavorar.  Lc  quale 
in  ditta  Inlula  nc  lono  due  delle  (|ual  una  e  diftantc  dalla  cita 
ditta  Dominica  mcia  13  chiamata  Mina  di  S.  Chriltophoro. 
L'altra  la  (jual  e  dita  ciabava  e  diftantc  ly  meia  de!  porto  re- 
gal et  lono  2  gran  Regioni.  Dove  piii  volte  fi  trova  in  lupcr- 
fitie  Ore  et  intro  i  liixi  male  over  lamine  alcuna  volta  minute  ; 
et  piu  volte  in  piu  luochi  di  gran  pefo  :  alcuni  fe  trova  di  trelento 
pondi  male  alcune  magior.  Una  fu  trovata  di  3310  pondi  di  pefo 
lo  qual  mafa  fu  caricata  in  la  nave  di  Boadilla  patrone  per  con- 
dur  al  Re  in  Spagna  et  per  ell'cr  ditta  nave  carga  di  gcnte  et  oro 
fi  fumerfe  et  perdeii  I'oro  et  perfone  la  (jual  mala  d'oro  fu  vifta 
prima  da  molte  perfone.  La  quantita  dil  pefo  dil  pondo  ft  e  et 
pefa  3  ducati  d'oro  et  li  hilpani  chiamono  tal  pefo  uno  caltigliano 
d'oro.  Tuto  I'oro  che  i  cava  dci  monti  ciuani  et  del  porto 
Regal  lo  portano  alia  ca.  della  Conceptionc  dove  e  parechiatc  le 
oficine  e  li  lo  fondono.  Et  prima  dano  della  parte  quinta  a 
ciafchedun  la  fua  portione  per  le  fo  fatiche :  IJucI  oro  che  fi 
toglic  dal  Officina  di  S.  Chriftophano  lo  portano  alia  ca.  di  bona- 
ventura.  Siche  ogni  anno  tragano  da  ditte  2  otficine  Trelcnto- 
milia  pondi  di  Oro.  ct  fe  alcun  con  fraude  'I  ne  togliefono  fi 
che  e  non  lo  confcgnall  al  Regal  magiftrato  lo  caftigcriono  con 
le  lege  :  et  quando  intervicne  coftionc  tra  loro  lb  li  magiftrati  non 
li  adatano  :  Vanno  poi  tal  fententie  alle  Apellatione  al  palazo  di 
Senatori  la  qual  la  difinife.     In  quefta  eta  fono  fcnatori  di  excel- 

61 


O  ifliani  afiimi. 


C.  Domimita 
Ma.  I  3,  Mima 
MS.  Ckrijio- 
pkdTo.  Cia- 
htfva,  Porto 
Regale,  ma. 
I'f,  Oro. 

laofondi,  3]  10 
pcndi. 


I    pindo  fi  e   \ 
Cajligliana 
da  ducati  3. 

Cebani  monti. 

Porto   Regal. 

C.  conceftioni. 

Mina  S.  Chrif. 

tofhano. 
Bona  Centura, 
300OT.  fondi. 


482 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


Prima 
Prejidenti. 


'      »     ■*      • 

3°. 

4",  5°- 
6°,  7°.  8° 


enti  et   nobili  di   noto  fangue  i  quale  fentano  per  iudicar  come 
confediarii  in  tal  fenato.     La  prima  (edia  fi  v'c  cleto  Jos.  a  Silva 
comes    cifontcs    Regius   magnus   Vcxillifer    parente   dil    Re    d, 
Spagna  el  quale  fi  e  uno  altro  Catoiie  di  grandc  ingiegno  di  m- 
tegerima  vita  et  littcrato  et  amator  di  Vcrtu.  e   il  principe   del 
fenato  che  a  Roma  fi  chiamo  lo  prcfidcntc.     Li  altri  clie  per  or- 
dine  fentano  che  primi  fccondo  I'ordine  d'il  tempo  lono  prion 
fentono.     Li   Dodori  i  quale  fono  defignati  overo  ornadi  infig- 
niti   pcrche   in  lingua  Spagnola  li  defignati   chiamon  quelli  che 
dicon  licentiati :  che  dc  jure  vcngono  elcti  dal  Confulti  dil  Regno. 
Et  tra  i  prefidenti  Scnta  Pctro  di  Oropefa  Vctcrano  dapoi  queftto 
fenta  Lodovico  Zapata  :   Dipo  Fernando  Tcllus  :   il  quarto  lenta 
Garfia  Moxica.     El  quinto  fenta  Lorcncio  Caravaial :  dipoi  fta  1  o- 
ribio  Santiago  dipoi  fente  Joanni  Lopez:  dipoi  Lodovico  Polanco: 
dipoi  Francdco  Varga  el  quale  c  ancori  Thcfaurier  dil  Re.  ^  Le 
ultime  ftatione  fono  ocupatc  dai  facri  conftituiti  cioe  Sofa  et  Cal-.co 
iuris  rontifici  periti  che   per  non  eller  licito  in  caufa  cnminali 
aiutar.     Sichc  tuti   atcndeno  a  miniftrar  Juftitia  fccondo  il  bil- 
ogno  di  chi  domanda  Rafone  :  ct  qucfto  bafta  per  hora  torncmo 
i..ie  Varie  fortunate  Non  Saturno  non  Hcrcole  non  alcuno  an- 
tiquo  che  habia  ccrcato  nove  terre  ct  rido  al  Culto  Tuti   inlicme 
hora  darano  loco  a  li  Hifpani    noftri.     O   Dio  ciuanto  ampliato 
vedcrano  queli  che  dapoi  noi   verano  ampliata  la   Religion  crifti- 
ana  :   Et  a  ogniuno  per  I'avenir  li   tia  licito  andarc  per  il  monco 
vagando  ficuramentc.      Et  non  e  pollibilc  dire  quanto  per  I'av- 
enir habia  a  elle  gran  cole  da  penfar  a  ogni  fublime  ingegno. 

{Copia  delle  carte  numerate  29-46  del  codUe  Magliabechiano  con- 
trajegnato  Claffe  xill,  No.  8 1,  efcgmta  da  FILIPPO  RICCI, 
Dijhlbutore  Capo  della  Biblioteca  Nazionale,  ejeguita  fecondo  Porto- 
grafia  del  codice Jiejfo.) 


Appendix. 


483 


THE  BOOKS  AND  MANUSCRIPTS  DESCRILED  IN  THE 

FOREGOING  PAGES,  ARE,  AT  THE  PRESENT 

TIME    (may  4TH,    1866),  IN    THE 

FOLLOWING  LIBRAFI^S,  VIZ.: 

In  the  library  of  James  Lenox,  Esq., 
No   53  Fifth  AvenuCy  New  York: 

Nos.  2,  3,  4,  II,  15,  16,  18,  19,  22,  23,  34,  25,  26, 
27',  28,  29,  31,  38,  39,  40,  45,  46,  47,  48,  51,  55,  57, 
58,  60,  62,  63,  70,  80,  81,  83,  84,  86,  88,  90,  92,  94, 
97,  98,  99,  100,  loi,  102,  109,  no,  113,  114.  IIS' 
121,  122,  123,  124,  125s  126,  129,  133,  135,  137,  i39> 
142,  145,  150,  152,  153,  154,  15^.  »6o,  167,  168,  171, 
172,  171,  175,  176,  177.  »^7.  »88.  »90>  19^  '93.  195. 
197,  198,  199,  200,  205,  206,  207,  215,  218,  221,  223, 
227,  230,  239,  242,  245,  247,  258,  260,  264,  272,  275, 
277,  278,  281,  2S3,  286,  289,  290,  297,  298,  304. 

Also:  The  Mexican  books  on  pages  374,  375,  376 
and  377,  marked  "  Private  Library,  New  York,"  the  Bay 
Psalm  Book  on  page  377,  the  Jesuits  Relations  cited  in 
the  Introduction,  and  MSS.  mentioned  in  the  first  col- 
umn of  notes  on  page  213,  in  note  21,  and  on  page  320, 
and  the  manuscript  Las  Casas. 


In  the  library  of  John  Carter  Brown,  Esq., 
Benefit  Street,  Providence,  Rhode  Island: 

Nos.  3',  4>  5.  ^'.   »S.  >9.  26,  31,  38,  39,  42,  45,  46, 
48*,  57,   58,  60,  66,  86,  88,  88  bis\  94,  97,  99,  102, 

'  This  is  apparently  the  R.kc  yt,fu<(iui  '  Tw-  copies,  nne  with  thf  portrait,  the 

sold  by  the  British  Museum  as  a  Jupli.atf,  other  with  the  genuine  plan  ot  Mexico, 

on  the  late  iliscovery  of  a  complete  copy  in  *  Two  copies, 

the  Grenville  collection.     The  remaining  *  Two  copie».            .      ,  .  . 

leaves  have  been  ...l.led  in  tac -simile.  »  Two  copiea,  one  .)»  which  on  vellum. 


484  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

105,  no,  115,  118,  120,  121,  122,  123,  125,  126,  129, 
134,  M5>  ^38.  ^39^  H5.  >54,  160,  162,  167,  168,  171, 
172,  175,  176,  178,  187,  188,  190,  191,  200,  206,  207, 
215,  218,  233,  238,  244,  247,  251,  264,  266,  267*,  272, 
275,  277,  278,  297. 

Also  the  Motinas  on  page  375,  and  Lima  books  on 
page  376.  

In  the  library  of  Samuel  L.  M.  Barlow,  Esq., 

No.  I  Madison  Avenue,  Mew  York  : 

Nos.  I,  4,  13,  14,  42',  51,  57,  S8>  ^O'  ^3,  64,  74,  88, 

88  bis,  109,   112,   126,  127,   131,   142,  H5«   'SO.  '57, 

168,  171,  172,  176,  186,  188,  191,  197,  202,  218,  223, 

231,  233,  248,  252,  253,  269,  279,  285,  287,  297,  298. 

'  Also  Molina's  Vocabulario. 


In  the  library  of  Colonel  Petek  Force, 

Seventh  Street,  IVushington,  District  of  Columbia  : 

Nos.  11,  15,  39,  51,  56,  58.  60,  81,  125,  126,  133, 
139,  176,  i«7,  i^^,   207. 

Also  the  Biblioteca  of  Beristain,  and  manuscript 
Las   Casas. 


In  the  library  of  J.  Carson    Brevoort,  Esq., 

Bedford  Avenue,  Brooklyn,  New  Tork  : 

Nos.  56,  57,  58,  60,  80,  88,  127,  137,  218,  223,  240. 


In  the  library  of  the  Honorable  Henry  C.   Murphy, 
OwPs  Head,  Fort  Hamilton,  New  Tork  : 

Nos.  45,  74,  «»,  i^^,  240. 


Reprint  on  vellum.         '  Two  lopies. 


Appendix.  4^5 

In  the  library  of  Almon  W.  Griswold,  Esq., 
No.  415  Fifth  A  venue  y  New  York: 

Nos.  57,  no,  125,  176,  190,  200. 


In  the  library  of  Mr.  George  Ticknor, 
Boston,  Massachusetts : 


No.  10. 


In  the  library  of  Charles   Deane,  Esq., 
Cambridge,  Massachusetts : 

No.  46. 

In  the  library  of  James  Lawrence,  Esq., 
Boston,  Massachusetts  : 

The  manuscripts  mentioned  in  the  second  column  of 
notes  on  page  213,  sequitur ;  and  in  the  first  column  of 
notes  on  page  320,  seq. 


In  the  library  of  Buckingham  Smith,  Esq., 


Nos.  165  and  268. 


I 


.^^..^u 


NO  TA  BENE :  Our  intention  was  to  add  to  the  present  work 
a  Cartographia  Americana,  or  list  and  description  of  all  the 
mapSf  whether  published  or  still  in  manuscript^  relating  to  the  New 
ff^orldy  and  draivn  before  1550.  IFe  likewise  intended  to  give  the 
passages  of  works  in  which  occur  mentions  of  charts  of  this  descrip- 
tion which  are  now  lost  or  mislaid.  The  notes  which  we  had  collected 
to  that  effect  were  so  numerous.,  and  the  Bibliotheca  Americana 
Vetustissima  had  already  become  so  bulky.,  that  we  were  compelled 
to  forego  our  intention.  As  this  is  our  first  and  last  attempt  in  the 
field  of  bibliography  and  cartography.,  we  leave  it  to  those  of  our 
friends  who  take  an  interest  in  such  matters.,  to  carry  out  a  project., 
whichy  under  the  circumstances,  we  are  unable  to  perfect. 


H.  H. 


City  or  Niw  Yo»«, 
May  4tA,  1866. 


INDEX. 


1*1 


INDEX. 


Ablijn  (Coriicliuj),  219,  i9<) 
Atuvfdii  (R.  Amuiuv  y),  »li. 
AtitetJ  (  |ii.i>iuiiO,  xxxiv. 

>•       (  j.Bct  tic),  104,  157,  \l') 
Ad.im  (Mckhior),  t^i   171. 
Adam  (nf  Hriim-iOi  161. 
Ad.l.i  (Maniuii  .1"),  461. 
Ailolplius,  1 18. 
Agia  (Migiii:!  dc),  J7ZH. 
Agiutini  ((Jiiiv.  dcgli),  219. 
Agritola  (Gcori;.'),  vi. 

««        junior  (Rudulpliui),  147" 
•«        (Rudol|>li.),    118,    1x9 «.,    147, 
160,  161,  191.  »77. 
Aguiar  (Rodrigo  dc),  xv,  394. 
Aguilar  (FraiicUco  dc),  J22». 
Aguirrc  (J.  Sanchez  dc),  106. 
AgurU.  (Vt.  P.  dc),  375. 
Aittingcr  (Wolfgang),  loi. 
Alanian  (Lucas),  206,  219(1. 
Alanisc  (Lconhard  and  Lucas),  138,  140, 

161. 
Alberino  (Nicholas  de),  320 n.,  436,  465. 
Albcrti  (L.),  66.  450. 
Albcitinij  (Francesco  de),  78,    I04,    110, 

111,  140,  166,  177. 
Albo  (Francijco),  119. 
Albu4uerijue,  125. 
AlceJo  (Antonio  de),  «iv,   sSo.,  611,  | 

113,  I24i  149  "••  3'6i  3J»'  447- 
Aldus,  49,  159,  193- 
Alegambc  (I'hilili),  xli. 
AlegreCF  J.),  no. 
Alexander  VI  (Pope),  I,  16,  18.  19,  5". 

11.  33>  34.  36»  44 
Alhaja  (Martin),  382. 
Aliarei  (Pedro),  98. 
Allcgrctti  (Allegretto  Jegli),  3. 
Allegrini  (P.),  6711. 
Almagto  (Diego  dc),  14S.  3«8-  3»«  * 


Almeida  (Ferdinand  del,  J*  • 
AlniiidnFiancioc.  de)    11%,  i»J« 
Aloiiso  I  111-  Blaik,  ue  Niiv» 
Al|'li»ii»ui  (King),  40».  ^o-t 
Albop  (Richard').  2l!* 
All  ((iior^ius),  42.  4  5 
Alvarado  (Kianc.  de),  376 
Alvarado  (Pedro  de»,  JJi,  »i4 
Alwocrdcn  (Henr    ib),  344. 
Aniandui  (y.icri«cci»,L>,  30*,  yvpm 
Aniati  (Uiaciiito),  14. 
Ambrojiii  da  H<irsaii  •  (  J'>.),  13»^ 
Anjorrtti  (Carl..),  2I9.  2>o,  251,  V"-/ 
Ampire  (A.  M.),  »ii. 
Andre  (Valerius). 
vtl: 

Andreas,  xxvi,  244. 

Desseliu). 

Taxander. 

Angelo  (Jacob.),  107,  135,  l>i 

Anghicra,  lee  NLirtyr. 

Angiolelo  (J.  M.).  153. 


Anglcria  (John  ,>t),  177. 
ylimali  <it  la  Rfp   Ji  G*n.My  l>' 

75.    117.    "T*!    •74 


•  7*^ 


Anonym.,    5 1, 

•  79.  ">3- 

Anselnius,  166. 

vil: 

Polonia,  166. 
Antiquarius  (Jacobus),  1 55 
Antonio  de  Leiirixa,  l$l,  iji 
Antonio  (Nic).  xiii,  »ii,  35     \y,  1*.  4i» 
113,   115,    126,    153,    iM.  •*».    »T7. 
282,  446,  452.  ^ 

Antune<.  i«  Ace»«Jo. 
Anunci.uion  (Fr.  J   J«  U»,  j7$- 
Anunciicion  (  Fr    lX)«»iftga  »e»»»,  17i« 
Apianus  (Peter),  91.  «37.  »T«»  «7l    V^ 
333.  361.  379.  40«.  4»7.  4*».  **V 
vtl  s 

Biencviti. 
Apulloniui  (l.rf:»in!ua),  3IV- 
I  Archiuu>  (Philip).  4J4- 


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Bibliotheca  AmerUatia. 


w 


Alio-  (CIiiIsiuvjI  •Ic),  I?!' 
Aigclmi  (I'hil.),  iHj. 
.-tnliiv  (Kktliiiuher),  50. 
Ardoin.)  (A.),  ^83". 

ArB.nw-l.'(B-  •'•)•  *"5>  »»5"- 
Ariicntcus,  let  Silbcr, 
Ar>!yiios,  ut  Silbcr. 
ArijK,  <«  Djvilj. 
AiihlDtilc  (Nitolo  d'),  »6fl 
AtistDile,  vii. 

Aiiv.lil  ((iiiiil.),  ii6. 
Armil.l  (Kiilutil)i  l<)')»- 

Aiii..i;a  (j.  <l.),  319. 

Arlliriiu'sius  (Kie<lfric.),  i}6. 

Artlius  (CJ111I1.11.I),  x»vi. 

Astfiiaiin,  u-e  IU>liu:i. 

Aslur  (A.),  xxvi. 

Aslii'i,  Iff  Oit<il"g,iit. 

Ailiir  (<J.  M.),  ««»iv,  x««vi, 

As|>inw.ill  (Col.  'riiiiiiua),  «x«,  15. 

.ilhtnitum,  S  B. 

Alicii/.i  (L<p|)t  lie),  311 », 

Aulirir   ('rimmas),  l\Z. 

Aucii|>jiiua  (Tluiiii.is),  lol. 

Audilltoli  (J.  ».).  i».  »''«.  V.  ^'i.  •'7i  i*f. 
34.  35'  J^  41.45.  4!*.  '  5».  H4- 

Augiibtinc  (Aiiluniip),  453. 

Augusliu  (  Hitrri.nymus  O.),  4iy. 

Av.igour  (Dti  l'.iic  d'),  xxxiv. 

Avciid.iiii)  (I),  di'),  l()S- 

AviU  (Gaijur  dc),  152. 


Bailiilii     y     M.iulcb    (Antimi.i),    xx;.iv, 

xxxviii. 
Backir  (AKiis  and  Augustin  dc),  xli. 
Baton  (Frantis),  vii,  4. 
Bai.in  (Roger),  xlvi. 
Badius  Asccnsius  ( Judocus),  lis,  I  z6,  131, 

131. 

BaduariKs  (Scbast.),  48,  49. 
Bai,     (J.  A.),  "vi,  256,  311,  339. 
Baffin  (William),  x. 

Baillct(Adi.),  xiii,S«,  161,245,263,293. 
Balboa  (Miguel  Cavello),  319,  320 ». 
Balboa,  tie  NuRez. 
Balhuena  (Bernardino  de),  212. 
Baldaya  (Aloiiio  Gonjales),  107. 
Baldelli  Boni  (J.  B.),  64,  96,99,  186,  469, 
Baligaiilt  (Felix),  70. 
Balli  (I'cdro),  372. 

Bandini  (Ang.  Ma.),  56,  57,  58,  59,  60 
61,  62,  64,  66,  92,  276,  444' 


Barbadicus  ( Augui(inui),  J*. 

Baihen  (Jclian),  410. 

Barbctini  (F.),  282. 

BaiUtM  (Duartc),  229. 

Barcia    (Andres    Cjunt^alcj    dc),    x»i,    66, 

118,  258,  318  «.,  383. 
Bareia-I'inclo,  ue  I'inelo  Baiiia 
Batlaeus  (Caspar),  67(1. 
Barlow  (S.  L.  M.),  XXX,  484. 
Baroiiius  (Cat.),  226*. 
Barreiiuj  (Ca&pai),  19$. 
vtl : 

Varreriiu. 
Barrionucvo  (Francittu  dc),  3*1 «. 
Barm  ( Julianncs),  12,  26. 
Barros  (Jean  de),  3,  6,  61,  226  »:.,  228,  295 
Barlhenia.  ue  Varlbenia. 
Bartlelt  (  |oliti  Kussell),  XX.X,  XXxix. 
Bariidoiiiei  (Jerome),  66. 
Baiioloifi  (Fr.),  57,  61,  64,  67,  453 
Bastarini  (Nltolo),  430. 
liiiiler  HuikdruikerfreukUkie,  41;, 
Bistid.is  (Kodrigode),  168. 
B.iuer(J.   j  ),  128.  3<;i. 
Baumgarlcn  (Signi.  Jac),  388. 
BautiilJ,  229. 
Bautista  (Fr.  J),  376. 
B.iyle  (IMerre),  ix,  86,  156,  180,  326 
Bayui'ia  (Conitantio),  78. 
Btautort  (L.  de),  263. 
Beaiipie  (de  Nancy),  95,96,  I  36,   341. 
Bebeliiis  (|»annes),  302. 
Beiliaiia  (Antonio),  322. 
Bee  her  (Capt),  5. 
Beeket  (TlioMias  a),  vi. 
Beluim  (Martin),  38,    39,  43,  60,   141, 
I  58,  226. 
vtt: 

Bohemus  (Martinus),  39. 
Bulalcaxar,  321  i>. 
Bellelorcst  (F.  dc),  405,  439. 
Bellono  (Antonio),  354. 
Belloro  (Tommaso),  67,  317  11. 
Bcllouaccnsis  (1).  Juan),  334. 
Beltran  (Vinltira),  321  n. 
Bembo(l'.),  2,  49,  104. 
Benaduei,  tee  Bolurini. 
Hendinelli  (Cardinal),  137. 
Bcnedetii,  49. 
vel: 

Benedict  (Alexander ),  48,  49. 
Beneventanus,  tee  Marcus. 
Ucnevente  (Toriibio),  tee  Motolinia. 
Benbam  (H.  S.),  346. 
Benito    (Alonso    Martin    de    Don),    «< 

Martin. 
Benito^  w*  Fcrnandex, 


II 


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Index. 


49 


Ikiivciiuti,  tie  Mjicui. 

Benson  (O.),  H4 

Bcnjti.ni  (Oirol.),  xvi,  4,    \*,   i.S*t   }">. 

Kt'r.irdi  (Juaniitii),  S7- 
lli'rckinjnn  (Arnold),  j6jl. 
HuiLMKlt  (Dr.),  xl,  114. 
Ucrgiiunn  de  OI|>c,  44 
vel  t 

IScrn.itdinun  dc  OI|il,  i  /. 
Bci^onus  (J.IC.    I'hil.),    14,    53,    S4.   ><» 
loj,  iji,  140.  3J4.  461. 
vtls 

Foruiti,  86. 
Ikimimciib'n,  ue  Bcrgom.u. 
Ikrist.iiii  y  Sou/i.i  (Jiisi;  M.iri.inii),  »«,  Hi, 

17!*.  4T1.  447. 
Ikiislain  ( Josi;  K  itacl  E.   T.l,  xxi. 
Bi'iil.ildr/.  (Aiidria),  1,  J,  6,   il. 
Ikin.ud  (Disluitcaux),  lee  Dcibarrtau*. 
Birn.iiiliis  (Hicronyniuu),  4X. 
Bcrnii/  (I'.),  317. 
Bi-rra  (Oio/to  y),  ue  Oroico. 
Bcaiik'ii  (Johannes),  «y,  ij,  34-  J**  4}i 
7«,  SS. 
vtl  I 

Bcsiihi'n,  78. 
Bttanzos  (Katli.),  450. 
Ht'tan/o»  (Juan  dc),  311 
Btrlliflft  (Tliomas),  437. 
Bctulfius,  ut  Birck. 
nianclii,  3. 
Bitliop'ii/e  Btlg^t,  73. 
H'hlioltCii  Pinellanij,  1X5. 
Hibliotheta  Anonym.,  178. 

"  Barhtviana,    1 01,    1 1  ^1 

ir7»iio,  lai,  15X,  i(;3,  245. 
Bibliolheca   Brevoortiaia,  110,   112, 

15X. 
Bililioihcca  Brtiuniana,    1 7,    18,    n; 
43.  45.  50,  6X,  73,  81.  84,  87,  ys,  V'J, 
112,    115,    117,    "»'',    148,   153,    15X, 
163,  169,  174,  177,  1X8. 
Bibliolheca  Bunav.,  87,  III,  312. 
'<  Columbijiia,  444. 

"  Grtnviltiana,  15,    17,   18,    n;, 

35,  4<;,  4<j,  50,  68,  69,  70,  73,  81,  84, 

87.  95.  V9.  «oS.   >«»•  "S»  "7.  '"< 
I20,   146,   147,   150,   153,   I74>  »S7. 
199. 

Ribliotketa  Htbiriana,  19,  33,  45-  4*'i  83, 
«5.  95.  99-  "*»  "5.  "7.  «*'^.  •**• 
iiX,  IJ7,  148,  1501  «S3.  «63-  •''9 
179,  184,  1S8. 

Bibliatkfca  Hit.  Struvio-Budtr,  87. 
"  Uohendorfiana,  \x%. 

"  Mtnieniana.  1 04. 


"5. 


"4». 


H. 


Bibliolktiu  Utrraattiana,  178. 
'•  Sftnceriana,  4I. 

"         Suutxiana,  I  58. 
"  Tlitreiidna,  jl». 

"  liolliana,  45,  47,  87,  ys.  "o»i 

115,   117,    121,   126,    128,    14.1,    173, 
263. 
Bibliolheca  yiUnbroukiana,  124. 
Bibliotbir/ue  curleute.  tee  CIcnicnI. 
Biddic  (11),  60,  148,  291. 
BicUCeld  (j.  V.  v.),  38. 
Bieni'viu  (I'ctur),  t.-e  Apiaaua 
Billy  (Ablic  de).  I  <;o. 
Bindone  (Krantcsco  di  AlcMandru),  335. 
Bindoni  (Auguslino  di),  264. 

(Bernardo),  104. 
Biu^raphie  (/nivenelU,  88. 
Bioiido  (Mitliacic  An);clo|.  40(,  4.11 
BiiiK  (Sixtus),  -vel  ISclulciuj,  442. 
Birikinan  (Ariu.ldus).  28X,  305. 
Biittta  ((Jiovanni  Antonio.),  46. 
Blount  (T.  IV),  88,  181. 
Blondus,  ue  BionJo. 
Bocint'iira  (Matiau  dc).  210. 
BiKcaciu,  219. 
Bocchi  (Fram.),  66,  67. 
Boik(F.  S.),  344- 
Bottler  (Jo.  Henr),  351 
Boliemus,  ue  Ikliaini. 
Bolin,  ue  Catalogue. 
Bollatrt  (Koland),  243,  270. 
BoUliianua  (l>.),  xiii,  .\v. 
Bonattursius  (Franciscus),  47. 
Bonntau  (Alexandre),  xxxv. 
Bononia  (Bern,  a),  166. 
Bontiiis  (Orcgoiius),  276,  305,  408,  419. 

44J. 
vel : 

Bontc,  144. 
BiK.nc,  ue  Catalogue. 
BordoMc  (Bentditt),  i66,   268,  Z84,  310, 

^55.  4»»-  ,     ., 

Borgia  (Alexander),  10,  29;  ue  alto  Alex- 
ander VI. 
Burromeo  (Fred.),  7, 

"        (Jose|ili),  177,  280. 
Bossi  (L.),  3,  4.  S-  7.  H.  9.  "5.  '7.  80. 

;  Bottrigari,  153. 

I  Boturini  Benaduti  (L.),  208. 

I  Bouchard  (Alain).  148. 

,  Bourbourg  (B.  de).  ««  Brasseur. 

]  Bovcro  (Zach.),  166. 

i  Boysen,  344. 

j  Bragadeno  (Francesco),  78. 

I  Bramereav  (J,(tiiue8),  xxviii. 

I  BraMCur  de  Buurbourg  (Abbe),  209. 

I  Bravu  ^Franci;icu),  43J. 


492 


Bibtiotheca   Americana. 


I 


Brtlicuf  (^■•'^»>  ).  xxviii. 
Brivdort   (J.  Cjrsoii),  4H4- 
Biitii  (Anliinio),  xi<;. 
Bi.aar  (Juan  dt),  }5V,  J9»- 
Brucjril,  laj,  xU,  IJI. 
vtli 

BriKlurd,  BriKar(u». 
Brutkhauii  (K.  A.),  xxxiii. 
Biimbtb,  ui  IXs  BriiMca. 
Brown  (J'>lin  Carter),  xxx,  48}. 

(Rawil(in),  4. 
Brubaihiua  (Pttius),  J47. 
Bruciiili  (Antonio),  ji;o. 

(Kranieaco),  J<;0. 
Biunrt  (Jac<iuc»-Clurles),  ut   Bihliolktia 

pitiiim, 
lliiint'l  (Gustavc,  ot  Bordeaux),  \\.  \lo. 
Uiuno  (liiordano),  vi. 

(Jaioliua),  Sj. 
Butkinck  (Arnold),  1 10. 
Hurnavcnlura  (S.  J.  K.).  17 5>  17* 
Hulltlin  Ju  Hihliopkilt,  l<»). 
Uuinniaiii   (llani),  lol. 

liurgoa  (i-'-  'li^).  *•'•  445- 
(Andreas  dc),  410. 

Burrougli  (Stephen),  fto. 

Bury  (Hitliard  de),  i,  ix. 

Bustamente  (C.  M),  107,  iio,  ill 

But>ih,  ife  Cataloi;uc. 

BynncMian  (H.),  416. 

B^uvitu  (Abraham),  **6. 


Caballcro{R.  D),  13-  '*4- 

Cabot  (Sebastian),  59,  1*4.  H"  *1»- 

Cabral  (Pedro  Alvarez),  61,  y7-  <)*<  «o», 

lj6. 
Cabrera  (Melchor  de),  II,  111. 

••         (Christopher),  J65. 
Ca  da  Mosto,  or  Cadani.ntus,  4,  75'  t7- 

107,  111,  114.  '3'i  *46. 
Caesar  (Martinus),  243. 
Calancha  (A.  di),  66. 
Callc  (Diaz  dc  la),  171.  "Si  »"».  4»^ 

••     (Juan  D\ci  dc  la),  xv. 
Calphurnius  (Jo.),  334. 
Calvi  (l)onato),  86. 
Calvin  (John),  344- 
Calvo  (Andrea),  l»l. 
Calvus  (Minitius),  a3l. 
Cam  (IJiego),  107. 
Camanor,  ';8. 
Cauieiino  (John  de),  147 


Camera,  tf^. 
vtl  I 

Catricrtus (Joannes),  iXi,  19I,  tjl- 
Camoens,  viii,  i)y. 
Campi  (I'.  M.),  1. 
Campomanes  (I*.  R.  de),  xii. 
Camus  (Arniand  (iaston),  xxiii,  6j,  70, 

114,  14H,  161,  lyo,  176. 
Caiuellicri  (»•'.   Jer),   2,    ly,   iX,   3I.    H, 

36,  44.  75.  76.  t*>*.  •!!'.  »V7.  3H. 

444 
Canisius  (Henr.),  166. 
Caniiarcs  (Joset),  ill. 
Cano  (Juan  Scbasiiin  Del),  118 
Canovai  (Stanisl.),  S7,  $8,  ?';,  <>u,  (il,  dl. 

64,  67,  i«i,  133.  341.  444 
Capniiuni,  xlii. 
Caiavaial  (Lorenti.i),  481. 
Carav.ij.il  (  Bern.irdiii  dc),  lu,  3).  i8o,  iX  ( 
I  Caiv.ij.il  (Kraniisi'i  de),  ]H. 
I         ■•        ((talindez  de),  281. 
Cardan  (|er.),  vi. 
Cirdella  (Lor.),  ^5. 
Cardi'iiaa  y  Cano  (/'•'a./""   /""A    U     liar 

lia),  66. 
Cneri  (Oeinelli).  ZII. 
Carione  (Hicron.),   104. 
Carl)  (O.  R.).  211. 

Carlo  da  l»avia  (Sicpliano  .li),  I  v^.  '5' 
Carninia  (Bcrardus  or  Leonard  dc),  ut  Cui- 

baria. 
Carondelet  (Jelian  de),  244. 
Carpin  (IJu  I'laii  du),  xxiii. 
Cartier  (Jatiiues),  415. 
Casas,  tee  Las  Casai. 
Casoni  (Philip),  3,  I'jo. 
Castanheda  (!•'.  Lope/.),  xviii,  77. 
Castro  (IJicgo  Bermu.le/  de),  xx. 
"       (I'cdrode),  387. 
<•       (Varcz  de),  393. 
Catitlo^ut,  Aihtr,  ITT. 

/Iipinv/all,  231;,  15} 
'>  BokH,  188. 

UoOKt,    18. 

Buliik,  \li,  78,  142,  2J4 

'•  Coilahili,  2y. 

"  Courianvaux,  xli. 

"  Crilaint,  103,  13I. 

"  Crtvenmi,  423. 

"  Crowmmhitld,  84. 

"  Flomel,  163. 

"  h'ranct,  xlix,  2,  77. 

•'  Gullarini,  140. 

"  Ihnroll,  172,  187. 

"  llihhtil,    xli,   6X,   .^J,    !>.;,    I  |o, 

171,  242,  287. 
"  Keniitt,  iv,  1OJ.4OV   4j7- 


Index. 


49.1 


Caiah^uf,  Kloii,  ;»».,  8;,  87,  no,  11  a, 
11$,  ni  ».,  IJJ,  m6ii., 
ijijK.,  160,  |66».,  154*., 
19111.,  )il. 

"         Labanoff,  no,  1x7,  34^. 

••  /,<jfd//(Vrr,  no,  148,  158,  163, 

149,  161. 

"  Lihri,  17,  }l,  48,   71,   71.   9V 

lot,    118,    187,    119,    149, 
163,438,441. 
MacCarlky. 

«'         Mondidir,  xli. 

"         PailiHck,  73. 

"  PofiVr,  141. 

"         Ratixel,  x.xxiii.    74,   84.    111. 

*S9.  »74- 
••  Reiiia,  131,  141. 

"  Riva,  I  30,   171. 

"  RoihiliH,  301. 

"  »W<jr,  134,  i6o. 

"  Syket,  I  s,  99. 

«'  troii,  19,  1  37.  I 

"  M'o/fif/iacr,  141,  419.  4}' 

CaCJncii  (  I.  Maria),  137. 
Catriby  (Mark),  5. 
Cav.ic'iii  (Alt'unsii),  111. 
Cavellat  ((Suillaumc),  44011. 
C»v<)(Andr<:-»).  105. 
Ca»tim  (Willian.),  17- 
Cwal  (A.  del,  6l,  65. 
CelUriu>  (Clir'ul.),  38. 
Ccpcda  (V.  Antonio  de),  1781. 

"       (KcrnanJo  At),  in. 
Cereii)  (Maria).  57. 
Cervantf»  Saavedra  (Miguel),  viii. 
Cerviciirnus  ( Euch-i'tin),  115. 
C.  (Frtntisci)),  i«  Sansuvino. 
ChanipUin  (Samuel),  xiii.  xviii. 
Ciianta  (Dr.),  46. 
(.'iLirles  V  (of  Spain).    11.   73.   "5».    '*'''■ 

179,  187,  101,  173. 
Charles  VllI  (of  France),  9,  10,  49. 
Charlevoix    (F.    F.    X.   de),   xvii,    3,   58, 

59».,  65,  131,  3»3 
Charnay  (Denirc),  in. 
Chartun   (Edward).  110. 
ChauduM  et  Uelandine,  48. 
Chautfeiiic  (J.  O.),  i8xfi.,  344. 
Chauvct.in  (Urb.),  38,  ll6  ».,  130.  158. 
Chavei  (C.abriel  de),  11  J". 
Chcrubini  (Uarr/),  1731. 
Chevillier  (Andre).  U  «. 
Chiabrcra  (Uabr.),  2. 
Chiericalo  (Francesco),  148. 
Chimilpain  (J.  U.  dc  S.   Anton   Mufton 

xix. 
Ckritlian  Examintr,  158. 


Ciacconiiis  (Alph.).  35  i>. 
V'lt^i  dr  Leon  (Pedro  de),  J18. 
CiK»l»  (Baptina),  I57». 
Ciglerui,  itt  Ziegler, 
Cilio  (Junius),  54. 
Cinelliui  (Americi),  66. 
Cml  (M»teo),  470. 
Ciineroi  (Diego  de),  in. 
"        (l.ui»).  iio". 
•'       (Xinienei  de),  368. 
Cladera  (Chri.lof.),  3,  39. 

CUvigero  (F.  X.),  xviii,  170".,  108. 

Clemencin  (Diego  dc),  »59. 

Clement    (David),    41.    41,   43.   47.    »"■ 
87,  103,  104.  Ill,  140.  I?"'  '"*■ 

Clement  Vll  (Pope),  134,  14y.  »73'  »*''• 

Climaco  (Juan),  366. 

Cluver  (Phil.),  66. 

Codcus  (Joanno),  141. 

CiKUf  (Simon),  308. 

CeJice  dipUmalico  Cukmko-ylmtticaiio,!  n.. 

11  n. 
Coelho  (lion/ale»),  61. 
Coello,  Iff  Coelho. 

Logouudo  ('O.  I.opet  dc),  xl.  172  "•■  -^5- 
Coignet  (Miihcl),  414. 
Coltiiion  Je  ./(/lumfifai  ( 1864),   57. 
Colinei  (Simon  del,  US.  '"8.  147,  !'•*'. 

334- 
[  Collier  ().  Payne),  I ».,  464. 
I  Colincnarcs  (Roderick).  H3. 
I  Colombo  (l.uigi).  3. 
Colon  (D.  Cristobal),  407. 
Columbus  (Chii.topher).   xiii.   xlvi,   1.   1. 
3   4,  tf.  6.  8.  13,  16,  18.  19,  10,  11.  14. 

15.  »y.  33.  3" .  43. 46.  47.  ?^.  5».  53. 
56, 57, 58,  59, 75.  "X.  ''>■  ^^'  *"!■  '"'• 

98,  101.  108,  ni,  n4.  nS,  111,  114. 
1 36,  1 37,  1 58, 156, 165, 181, 184,  300, 
351,  388,  413,  4»7i  47".  474- 479- 
vtl ; 

Colomb,  14;. 

Colombo,  I,  1,  16,  18,  19,  10,  11, 

13,  17,   18,  3°.  3". 
Colomu,  1. 
Colon,  1. 
Colonus,  1. 
Columbo,  78,  88. 
Colyiis,  1. 
Dawbcr,  1,  ni. 
■•  Pedro"  Colon,  1,  14.  »5. 
Columbus   (Barthob>mcw).    3.    4.  79.  97. 

186,  471,  474- 
Columbus  (Diego),  4,  56. 
)_  ••  (Fernando),   j.    3.  4  5-   *4.  54. 

79,  158,  171,  194 
Coma  (Ougliclmo),  46. 

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494 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


Condestable  (Andres),  227. 

Constant'm  {fuudon.  for  L.  A.  C.  Hesse), 

xlix. 
Conti  (Vincenzo  de'),  i. 
Copernick  (N.),  386. 
Coppenius  (yEgidius),  362. 
Coppo  Da  Isola  (Pietro),  264. 
Corbaria  (R.  L.  de),  8,  13. 

vet ! 

de  Carninis. 
Cordova  (Francisco  Hernandez  de),  179. 
"        (Fr.  J.  de),  376. 
"        (Gonzalvo  de),  256. 
«'         (H.  de),  399. 
Coronado  (Vasquez  de),  x. 
Correa  (Pedro),  4. 
Corsali  (Andrea),  150,  151. 
Cortambert  (Eugene),  3l4n. 
Cortereal  (Caspar),  98. 
Cortes  (J.  Osorio),  212. 
Cortez  (Hernando),  124,  170,  179,  193, 
203,   207,   215,   219,   222,   223,  240, 
252,  254,  286,  287,  441. 
•Coruniberger,  see  Crombcrger. 
Corzutu  (V.  Palentino  de),  414. 
Cosa  (Juan  de  la),  xlii,  3,  58,  59  n. 
Cosco  (Aliander,  or  Leander  de),  I,  2,  7, 

8,  13,  16,  18,  19,  20,  22,  44. 
Costa  (Alvaro  da),  227. 
Costabili,  see  Catalogue. 
Costilla  (George),  254. 
Cotta  (Joannes),  105,  107. 
Cotton  (Henry),  373"- 
Cousin  (Capt.).  173. 
Covilham  (Pedro  de),  107. 
Cramoisy  (Gabriel),  xxviii. 

"        (Sebastien),  xxviii. 
Cratandrum  (Andrew),  191. 
Crenius  (Th.),  326. 
Cretaine,  see  Catalogue. 
Critico,  98. 

Cromberger  (J.).  27,  167,  202,  224,  274, 
338,    365,  3701  372,   379.   397.   398. 
399,402. 
•vel : 

Corumberger,  27,  122. 
Crumberger,  27. 
Kromberger,  27. 
Crowninshield.  see  Catalogue. 
CuUen  (Charles),  xix. 
(^umariaga  (Juan),  see  Zumarr.iga. 
Cunat  (Charles),  416. 
Curths  (Carl),  205. 
Cushing  (Caleb),  66  n. 
Custodi  (Baron  Pietro),  13,  25. 
Czvittinger  (David),  323,  432  ». 


D 


D'Abano  (Peter),  190  n. 

Da  Cintra  (Pietro),  vel  Sinzia,  97,  107. 

Daelli  (G.),  80  n. 

U'Ailly  (Pierre),  xlv,  15. 

D'Alembert  (J.  Le  Rond),  vii. 

Ij'rymple  (Alexander),  xxxiv,  xxxv. 

DAnviUe  (J.  B.  Bourguignon),  351. 

Danza  (Paul),  307. 

Darling  (James),  xv. 

D'Artigny  (A.  G.),  344,  379- 

Da  Silva  (Gaetano),  60  n. 

(J.  F.),  xxxiv. 
Dati  (Giuliano),  2,  28,  29,    30,  43,   149. 

461. 
Daunou  (Pierre  Claude  Francois),  vii. 
D'Avezac  (M.  A.   P.),  60  n.,  96,  l-^on., 

I76n.,  185,  238,  341,  4«6.  469- 
David  (King),  156. 
Davila  (Gil  Gonzales),  209,  366,  367. 

(Pedrarias),  169,  227  «.,  245,  256, 
3,8. 
Dawber,  see  Columbus. 
Daye  (Stephep),  377. 
Deane  (Charles),  485. 
Debrett  (J.),  xxiii. 
De  Bry  (Brothers),  xii,  xv,  38,  63. 
De  Bure  (GuiU.  Fr.),  146,  189. 
De  Castro  (Diego),  322  n. 

'■  (Lope  Garcia),  322  n. 

De  Courcelles  (J.  B.  P.  Julien),  xxv. 
De   Franckenau   (G.    E.),    xiiin.,   256  n., 

382n. 
De  la  Gasca,  320  a. 
De  la  Roquette  (Chardon),  168  n. 
De  Launoi  (J.),  xlvi. 
Delaware  (Lord),  xxxviii. 
De  Lewis  (Denys),  402. 
Delignamine  (Giov.  Filippo),  28. 
Delia  Rena,  see  Rena. 
Del  Rio  (Capt.  Antonio),  211. 
Demersey  (L.  Alfred),  xxxv. 
De  Mura,  vel  Peter  of  Gand,  308,  309. 
Denis  (Ferdinand),  xi,  97  ».,  225  n.,  25 1  «., 

260,  3i4''->  4'*- 

Denis  (Michael),  34/1.,  35".,  87,  161. 
162. 

Denys  (Jean),  174. 

De  Pauw  (Cornelius),  250,  256. 

De  Payva,  107. 

De  Paz  (M.),  320  n. 

De  Ponte  (Gotardo),  115. 

De  Rothelin  d'Orleans,  xxiv,  see  also  Cata- 
logue. 


j(W 


.'ii 


Index. 


495 


Desbarreaux-Bernard,  370. 

Desborowe  (John),  t;*/ Ian  van  Doesborch, 

198,  199. 
Des  Brasses  (Charles),  173,  251. 
Desponte  (Peirre),  71. 
Despuchi,  see  Vespuccius. 
Desselius,  !«  Andre. 

De  Tliou  (Jac.  Aug.),  67»-  I23«-)  ^71  "• 
De  Wind,  309  n. 
Diane  de  Poitiers,  114. 
Dias  (Bartholomew),  107. 
Diaz  (Bernal),  170,  205. 

"    (Juan),  170,  194. 
Dibdin  (T.  F.),  70,  349. 
Didot  (Amb.  Firmin),  189  n. 
Diest  (Gillio  de),  401. 
Diether  (Andre),  219,  442. 
Dionysius  Lybicus,  391. 
•vel : 

Periegetes,  162. 

D'lvor,  15. 

Docampo  (Florian),  -vel  do  Cimpo,  388. 

Donesmundi  (Ippolito),  2. 

Doppelmair,  38,  39  ".,  142 

D'Orbigny  (Alcide),  xxxv. 

Doricus  (Valerius),  454. 

Doringk  (Matthias),  41. 

Drake  (gI),  xli. 

Draudius  (Geo.),  xiii,  xv,  245 

Drummond,  344. 

Dryden  (John),  212. 

Du  Fresnoy  (Lenglet),  xvi,  xxiv,  87,  146 
208,  457. 

Du  Halde  (J.  B.),  xvil. 

Du  Pare  d'Avagour,  see  Avagour. 

Du  Pre  (Galliot),  146,  147,  140. 

Du  Puys  (Remy),  72". 

Duran  (Diego),  204  «.,  213". 

Durer  (Albert),  38. 

Durtbrt  (Count  de),  67. 


305. 


3>3- 


E 


Eandaui,  285. 

Eastman  (S.  C),  xxxix. 

Ebeling  (C.  D.),  xxv. 

Ebert(F.  A.),  21,50,88,95,99,  no,  112, 

H4,  150,  153.  i84>  '93.  io^.  439- 
Eccard  or  Eckhard  (J.  G.),  49. 
Echard,  see  Quetit'and  Echard. 
Eden  (Richard),  xvi,  2,  10,  14,  75,   125, 

126,  251,  299  1. 
Egenoissen  (Christian),  346. 
Egnatius     (Joan    Baptista),    vet    Egnazio 

Cipelli,  300. 


Eguia  (Michel  d"),  275,  179. 

Eguiara  y  Eguren  (Juan  Jose),  xix,  »iz, 

^78,  373i  433- 
Elliot  (John),  397. 
Elliott  (Samuel  E.),  xxv. 
Elssius  (Phil.),  86. 
Emmanuel  (King),  57,  61,  99,  118,  150, 

197,  199. 
Encin.TS  (Diego  de).  394. 
Enciso  (Martin   Fernando  de),   27,    167, 

168,  274,410- 
Engcl  (Sam.),  87. 
Enrique  Pedro,  11. 
Enriquez  (Beatrix),  5. 

•'         (Martin),  435,  466, 
Ens,  vel  Ensl  (Gaspard),  67. 
Erasmus  fDesider.^  158,  244.  263,  292. 
Ernesti  (J.  A.),  184. 
Escoiquiz  (J.  de),  212. 
Escuto,  see  Schott. 
Espinar  (Manuel -de)  321  n. 
Espinosa,  vet  de  Spinoza  (Antonio),  367  »., 

372. 
Espinosa  (J.  F.),  206. 
Espoleto  (Andreas  de),  390. 
Espuche,  see  Vespuccius. 
Essler,  108  n. 
Estancelin  (L.),  173. 
Estavanico,  383. 

Estrada  (Juan  de),  365,  368,  369. 
Estrella  (J.  C.  C),  213. 
Eusebius  (Pamphil.),  130,  131. 
Eyries  (J.  B.),  93.  96. 


Faber  (John),  262,  264,  270,  306,  346. 
Fabian  (Robert).  147.  148. 
Fabre  (Jacques  Antoine).  249,  349. 
Fabricius  (J.  A.),  xlii.  4'.  4».  49-  **7.  **«, 

104,    no,    128,   136,    158,    184,    193, 

202,  244,  283.  431. 
Fabrum  (J.),  361. 
Faleiro  (Francisco).  226. 

(Ruy),  226. 
Falkenstein  (Dr.   Karl),  303.  373  n.,  434- 
Fallopius  (Gabriele),  256. 
Farfan  (Fr.  Ag.),  376. 
Farcy  (Charles),  211. 
Faria  y  Souza,  61,  97,  2i6B. 
Faribault  (G.  B.).  xxv,  xxxiv,  xxxvi. 
Faucher.  vet  Ponce  Rotfet,  415. 
Faugere  (Prosper),  iii  n. 
Faunstelter  (Georg.).  see  Tannstetter. 


496 


Bibliotheca  Americana. 


Ferdinand  and  Isabella,   5,  9,  II,  18,   19, 

33,  36,  124.  »S6-     ^ 
Ferdinand  ^K.mg),  W  Fernandus,  I,  7,  10, 
17,  19,  20,  «,  43,  44.  57.   '°8,  118, 
136. 
Fernandez  (Alonzo),  109,  366,  445. 
"         (Benito),  375,  445- 
»         (Denys),  107. 
«         (Diego),   319. 
"  (Francisco),  328,  338,  414. 

Feria  (Fr.  Pedro  de),  375  «. 
Ferrer  (Jaime),  5,  406. 
Fesch  (Cardinal),  19. 
Festus  (Peter  Martyr),  123. 
Figaniere  (Jorge  Cesar  de),  284. 
Fine  (Orontius),  297,  298  n. 
Flaminius  (John  Anthony),  vet  Zarrabini 

de  Colignola,  350. 
Flavigny  (C.  F.  de),  218. 
Flechier  (Esprit),  282. 
Florio  (John),  416  n.      ' 
Focard  (Jacques),  420. 
Foglietta  (Uberto),  190. 
FoUini  (Abbate,  470. 
Fontaine  (Charles),  15. 
Fontanelli  read  and  ue  Fontanini. 
Fontanini  (G.„  155,  186,  268,  390. 
Foppens  (J.  F.),  xli,  244,  270,  309. 
Force  (Peter),  xxx,  484. 
Formaleone  (Vincenzio),  65. 
Forster  (J.  R.).  ^S'  "• 
Foscararius  (Aegid.),  454- 
Foscarini  (Marco),    60,   63,   75,    92,    99. 

115.  >87' 
Fossi  (Ferdinand),  19,  27,  48. 
Fracanzio  da  Montalboddo   xxii,  xlv,  96, 
130  n.,  145,   162,  184,  185,  187,  189, 
463. 
Franck  (Sebastian),  299,  325,  380. 
Franco  (Fernandez),  453. 
Fran9ois  I  (King),  4n.,  155,  189. 
Francis  of  Bologna,  307. 

"       of  Vittoria,  168. 

"       the  Monk,  243. 
Franklin  (Benjamin),  39  n. 
Frampton  (I.),  4I4- 
Frasch  (Christopher),  3:2. 
Freherus  (Paul),  88,  270  «.,  271. 
Freytag  (Frid.  Gotth.),  xxvi,  41,  43.   126 

128,  183,284,  351  n. 
Fridericus  III,  40  n. 
Fries  (Laurent),  246,  261,  272,  278. 
Frisius,  see  Gemmn. 

"       (Laurent),  see  Phrysius. 
Fuerer,  38. 

Fulgosus  (Octavianus),  155. 
Fulvius  (Andreas),  104,  lao. 


Funes  (D.  Greg.),  383. 
Furnius  (Jacab),  157. 


G 


Gaddiu?  ( Jacopo),  66  n. 

Galiffe,  344. 

Gallardus  (Germanus),  356,  431. 

Gallo,'2n.,  3. 

Galvano,  -vet  Galvan,  4». 

Galvez  (J.  J.  G.),  208. 

Gama  (A.  Leon  y),  211. 

"       (Vasco  da),  64,   79,   97,  108,    124, 
2820. 
Gambara,  3  n. 
Gante  (Pedro  de),  374. 
Gaona  (Fr.  J.  de),  376. 
Garces  (Julian),  168. 
Garcia  (Gregorio),  66  n.,  208,  209. 
Garimberto  (H.)i  437- 
Garnier,  xlixn. 
Gasco  (Andres),  339. 
Gassendi  (Peter),  142(1.,  387. 
Gastaldo  (J.),  430. 
Gaultier  (Pierre),  410. 
Gayangos  (Pascual  de),  329  n. 
Gaztelii  (Dominico  de),  328,  330,  332. 
Gebauer,  40  n. 

Gemma  Frisius,  270,  276,  305,  362,  400, 
401,  407,  425,  443. 
•vel ! 
Frisius. 
Phrisius. 
Reinier. 
Genebrier,  vel  Genebrard  (Gilbert),  66  «. 
Gentil  (F.  Bernardo),  340. 
Geraldini  (Alexan.),  2n.,  4. 
Gerson  (Joan.),  398. 

Gesner  (Conrad),  vii,  14,  41  «.,  87  "•,  '44- 
Ghilini  (Hierome),  271. 
Ghillany(F.  W.),  390.,  60  n.,  118,  1411., 

142,  184,  193. 
Giaccarelli  (Anselmo),  450. 
Giambullari  (P.  F.),  406. 
Gianorini,  7  b.,  8. 
Gibbs,  5  n. 

"        (J.).  2i6n. 
Gibbon  (Edward),  344. 
Gilberti  (Mat.),  374. 
Gilianez,   107. 

Ginguene  (P.  L.),  5311.,  360. 
Giocundi,  55,  108. 
Giovio,  see  Jovius. 
Girardhengi  (Francesco),  46. 


Index. 


497 


Oiunti  (Thomas),  63.  | 

Giuntini  (Fr.),  59«.,  351. 

Giustiniani  (Agostino),  xliv,  in..  3,  5,  49,  \ 

«54.  «S5.  '56'  >57.  353-  j 

Giustiniani  (Andreolo).  157  «.  I 

•'  (Michael),  156  n. 

Glareanus(Hen.  Loritus),  118. 154  «.,  2.62, 
163,  264,  269,  285.  306,  346,  358, 
361,396,405.  I 

vet : 
Luiitz. 
Glover  (Rfv.  Jesse),  377. 
Godefroy  (Theodore),  355. 
Godoy  (Diego),  252,  254. 
Goes  (Damiano  de),  61  n. 
Gohory  (Jacques),  409,  411. 
Gomara  (F.  Lopez  de),  xix,  56  ».,  170  n., 

204,  216,  225  «..  345,  383. 
Gomez  (Alvaro),  282. 
'•        (Estevan),  227. 
Gongora  y  Siguenza  (F.  X.  C),  208.  110. 
Gonzaga  (Fr.),  171. 
Gonzalez  (Ant.),  107. 
Gorricio  {Padre),  xlvi. 
Goujet  (CI.  P.),  1 56//. 
Goupyl  (Jac),  440  n. 
Gourmont  (GiUes  de),  65.  72. 
Graesse  (J.  G.  Th.),  7  n.,  faaim. 
Gra;viu3  (J.  G.),  l9on. 
Granada  (Luis  de),  368. 
Granius  (Joannes),  400. 

"       (Stephanus  M.),  396. 
Grapheus   (Joan.),   270.   276.    305.    342. 

35'.  4^6. 
Gravier  (M.),  341. 

GrenvilU  Codex,  ^()ri..  don..  Ozn..  150. 
Grenville  (Thomas)  x.wii.  61,  82,  293. 
Grijalva  (Ju.in  de),   169,    170,  171,  17^1 

179.  '94,  ^09.  393- 
Grimaldi  (Giov.  Ant.),  11. 
Grimano  (Antonio),  194. 
Grimm  (Sigmund),  196. 
Griswold  (Almon  W.),  485. 
Griti  (Andrea),  240,  253. 
Groslier  {r'ad  Grolier),  (J.),  no. 
Griinigc;  (Joan.),  57  ».,  60  «.,  61  n..  62  n. 
64n..  100,  116,  117,  118,  119,  I28n. 
144,  201,  246.  253,  261,  278. 
Grynreus    (Simon).    2 ».,    3.    591..    60  n 
61  B.,  62n..  63n..    64n..  99.  236,  291 

198.  3".  357- 
Guamareto,  478. 
Guarionexio,  479. 
Guazzo  (Marc),  104. 
Guicciardini  (Franc),  341. 
Guiona  (J.),  376 «. 
Gumiel  (Jacob).  26. 


Gurgense  (Matth.),  103. 
Gutierrez  (Felipe),  321  n. 
Guttenberg  (Joan.),  131. 
Guzman  (Nuno  de),  x. 


H 


Haebcrlin,  ■ve!  Belani,  206. 
\  Hagen  (Von  der).  56  n. 
Hain  (L.),  17,  i8,  19,  28  «..  33,  35.  4"  "■- 
50,  87  n.,  124/). ,  I44». 
r  Hakluyt  (Richard),  xii,  xvi,  4".,   125"., 
147.  148,  206.  276,  417. 
Hallam  (Henry),  281. 
Hamel  (Pascal  du),  409. 
Haiuott,  see  Cat::hgue. 
Haro   (Christopher    de).   xlix,    173,    176. 

226. 
Haro  (Diego  de  Lopez).  382. 
Harris,  50,  336. 
Haven  (S.  F.),  377  n. 
Haym  (Niccola  F.).  io4«.,  163. 
Heger,  405,  439. 
■Helisabet,  see  Isabella. 
Heller  (Jas.),  41. 
^  Helps  (Arthur),  28a. 
'  Henry  II  (King).  114. 

••       Vl\(King),i,n. 
\       ■•       VIII  {King).  156. 
Herbert,  199. 

Herborn  (F.  Nicolao),  287,  295. 
Hernandez  (Francisco),  257. 

(Pero),  382. 
Herr  (Michael),  296,  311. 
Herrera  (Ant.  de),   .xii,  xi\,   xvi,  2  h..  4, 
5,24,  38  n.,   56n..  58,  59,   fijn..  J68, 
170  n.,  204,  317,  383,  396. 
Hervagius,  xv.  xvi,  236.  292.  357,  358. 
,  Hibbert,  see  CataUgue. 
Hiltner  (Joan.)    143. 
Hoffmann  (S.  F.  W.),  i  36.  1 62,  1 78,  202, 

153- 
,      Hojeda.  see  Ojeda. 
,  .  Holbein  (Hans),  385. 

Holywood  (John),  see  Sacru  Basco. 
..     Hondius  (Jossc),  66 

Honter  (Joan.),  322,  419,  43*- 
Horner  (Rev.  Mr.),  x.<iii,  49. 
Horriger  (Nic),  125  n.,  188. 
Houssayes  (Cotton  dcs),  v  n. 
Hudson  (Henr.),  sxxvii. 
;  Hueber  (Wolfgang),  77. 
'  Huet  {Bp.),  r'jxn. 
Huttich  vel  Huttichius  (Johaii).  236.  292. 

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Bibliotheca   Americana. 


Hulsius  (Levinus),  xii,  xxvi,  38».,  a30. 
Humboldt   (Alexander    von),    xi  n.,    xlii, 
jn.,  5,  26B.,  50,  56n.,  57,  59,  60,  6i, 
62,  64,   67,  73,  75.  82,  »5'  9'.  9i. 
95,   108,    no,   115,    ii7i    I'i*.    '*'' 
130,  136,  i40».,   168,  172,  173,   174. 
175,   180,   182,   186,   193,  202,  211, 
220.  227  n.,  »5**i  *''°'  *^*'  3°5.  4-32> 
469. 
Hupfurt\Matthias),  83. 
Hutten  (Uliich  von),  xlvii. 
Huttich  (John),  292,  298,  311,  357- 
Huxley  (Prof.),  iiin. 
Huysman  (Rolef),  vel  Agricolu  (Rudol()h). 

147/1. 
Hylacomylus,   57n.,   58n.,  59n.,  60,   61, 
62,  65,  90,  91,  92,  94,  96,  108,  118, 
128. 
■vth 

lUcomiluii.  * 

Waldsee-miiller. 
WaltzemuUer. 
WaltimuUer. 


Johnson  I^Rev.  S.  R.).  345  «• 

Jomard  (E.  F.),  don.,  239(1. 

Jonson  (Ben),  219". 

Joseph,  the  Indian  we/ Camanor,  98,  115. 

Jovius  (F.U1I),  53   n.,  88,   104,   137,  156, 

180,   248  H. 

vet: 
Giovio. 
Julius    II  (Pope).   35,  98,  99,  106,    107, 

109,  113,  120. 
Junta  (Juan  de),  424. 
Juste  (Francoys),  324. 


I 


lanozlci,  166  n. 

Icazbalceta  (Joaquin  Garcia),  xxi,  xii,  171, 
194,   207,  215,   217,   220,   365,    371, 

396.  434-  445- 
Ilacomilus,  see  Hylacomylus. 
Imperator  (Bartholomew),  391. 
Innocent  VIII  [Pope),  45. 
Isabella  (Slueen),  7,  9,  lo,  II,  14,  24.79- 
Isidorus  of  Seville,  1 07,  164. 
Isnardi  (Felice),  3  n. 
Ixtlilxochitl  (Fernando  d'Alva),  208. 


J 


Jacobus  (Joannes),  130,  163. 
Janot  (Denys),  269. 

"     (Jehan),  146,  I47' 
Jeune  {P'ere  le),  xxviii. 
Joanna  (Queen),  280. 
Job,  163. 
Jocher  (Chr.  Gottl.),  xxvi,  177,  238,  244, 

192,  3231.,  3*6,  399,  410,  429,  432. 
Johannes,  of  Burgos,  26. 
John  II  (King),  6,  36,  39,  45«.,  61. 

'•     of  Anjou,  261. 


K 


K.aniermaister  (Sebast.),  37. 
Kcckermann  (Bartholom.),  326. 
Kennett  (Bishop  White),  xv,   160,  409, 

437- 
Kerr  (Robert),  64  n. 
ICeltel  (Samuel),  21  n. 
Kingsborough  (Lord),  61  n.,  206,  211. 
Kloguen  (K.  de),  970. 
Kloss,  see  Catalogue. 
Knoll  (Conrad),  96. 
Koberger  (Ant.),  37,  43. 

"        (Johannis),  253. 
Koenig  (G.  M.),  429. 
Kromberger,  see  Cromberger. 
Kulb,  97  n. 
Kunstmann  (F.),  129,  144. 


Labanoff,  see  Catalogue. 
Labbe  (Ph.),  xvii. 
vel : 

Labbeus. 
La  Croix  du  Maine,  148. 
Laetius  (Pomponius),  123,  a8o. 
Laet  (Jean  de),  xxxvii. 
Lafitau  (Joseph  Fran.),  61  n. 
Lafuente  y  Alcantara  (Miguel),  22. 
Laguni  (J.  B.  de),  375. 
Laire  (Fr.  Xav.),  35,  48,  244. 
Lalemant  (Hier.),  xxxviii. 
Lambert  (Jehan),  56.  65,  70. 
Lamoignon  (President  de),  282. 
La  Monnoye  (B.  de),  281. 
Lancetti  (Vincenzo),  405. 
Landessbergt  (Mart.),  85. 


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Index. 


499 


Lansius  (Th.),  66. 

Lanuza  (Blasco  de),  X04. 

La   Place  (Jean   de),    591.,    60 n.,   din.. 

Sin.,  in). 
La  Salle  (Ant.  de),  260. 
Lascaris  (Janus),  334. 
Las    Casas    (Barth.    de),    3,    21  «.,    z^n., 

58  n.,  168  n.,  204,  257,  274,  284. 
Las  Casas  (Vincent  de),  449. 
Lasco  (Joan,  a),  346. 
Laud  (Wi/>.),  131. 
Laudonnieie  (Rene  de),  xviii. 
Lauredanus(Leonardu8),'Uf/  Luvedaiu),  86,  ■ 

'33- 
Lawrence  (James),  485. 
Lebrixia  (Antonio  de),  lee  Antonio. 
Ledesma  (Fr.  B.  a),  375.  \ 

Lcew  (Gerard  de),  xlvi.  ! 

Lcewis  (Denys),  see  Rike'.  and  De  Lewis. 
Lelewel  (Joachim),  60  n.,  92  n.,  108,  109, 

110,  127,  128,  129,  136,  141  1.,  142  »., 
17S,  202,  227  n.,  268,  271. 
Lelong(I.),  157,  158. 
Lemandez  (SeRor),  xlvi. 
Leno  (Francisco  di),  355. 
Lenox  (James),  xxx,  xxxiv. 
Le  Noir  (Philippe),  189,  260. 
Leo  X  (Pope),  99.    124,    151,    152,    155. 

180,  248. 
Leon  (F.  Ruiz  de),  212. 

■•     (Juan  Je),  436,  465. 

"     (Juan  Rodriguez  de),  xv. 

••      Pinelo  (Antonio  de),  xiii,  xiv,  791., 
I24n.,    1250.,    163K.,  169.   259,   318, 

393i  394.  433-  446. 
ve/ : 
Pinelo. 
Lerchern  von  Reidlingen  (Laux),  418. 
Lery  (J.  de),  66. 

Lescarbot  (Marc),  xiii,  xviii,  xxxviii,  416. 
Liburnio  (Nicolo),  241. 
Lilio  (Zachary),  xlvi,  47.  461. 
Lilius  (Greg.),  134. 
Linschotten  (J.  H.),  xii. 
Lipsius  (Justus),  66  n. 
Lissona  (Albertini  de),  87,  462. 
Livy,  292. 

Llorente  (J.  Ant.),  67,  454. 
Lochncr,  38. 
Lok  (M.),  126  n. 
Lomellino  (Laurent.),  354. 
Longhena  (Prof.),  25. 
Longolius  (Christ.),  334. 
Lopez  (Joan),  210,  483. 
Lorcher  (Jacob),  102. 
Lorenzana  (F.  Ant.  d;),  170  «.,  210,  218. 
Loritz,  see  Glareanus. 


j  Los  Rios  (J.  D.  Amador  de),  1561.,  2571 
I       258. 

Louere  (Simon  de),  78,  80. 
I  Louise  de  Savoy,  249. 
j  Louveau  (Jean),  438. 
!  Lovedano,  see  Lauredanu:>. 

Lubranski  (Joan.),  128. 

Lucchcsi  (t>.  Fernando),  220. 

Lud  (Walter),  iit/ Gualt.  Ludd,  91  n..  95. 

99.  34«- 
I  Ludewig  (Hermann  E.),  xxxviii. 
i  LuUi  (read  Raymond  LuUy),  vi,  xiii. 
■  Luppi  de  Faro  (read  Diego  Lopez),  34. 
[  Luther  (Martin),  280,  292. 
Luque  (Hernando  de),  245. 

•'       (Malo  de),  205. 
;  Lydius  (Balthazar),  295. 
I  LycU  (Sir  Charles),  iii  n. 


M 


Mabillun  (J.),  ix,  liii. 

Machado  Barbosa,  xlvi.  227,  284,  357. 

Machin  (Robert  O'),  107. 

Machinnech  (King),  476. 

Madrignano  (.\rcliangelo).    56.    112,  114, 

115,185. 
Martei   of   Volterra,   4.    53.   61,    87,   88, 

122,  1*6.  147.  283,  403. 
■vel : 

Volaterranus. 
Magellan  (Fern,  de),  108,  109,  :  174, 

176,  225,  316,  349- 
Magirus  (Tobias),  88. 
Magnus  (Albertus),  138,  139,  143. 
Maimonides,  156. 
Maittaire  (Mich.),  xiii,  ii,  48,  54,  87  «., 

I15n.,  121,  131  »..  147, 158,  166,  184, 

432- 
Major  (R.   H.).  5/1.,  11  n.,  15.  31,  46  «., 

80. 
Maldonada  (Antonio),  393. 
Malinche,  171. 
Malipiero  (Domenico),  80. 
Maneiro  (J.  A.),  xx,  212. 
Manzi  (Pietro),  205. 
Marchant  (Guyot),  8,  9,  20,  2X,  23. 
vel : 

Mercator. 
Marches!  (Francesco),  12. 
Marcolini  (Francesco),  192. 
Marcus  Benevantanus  vel  Benvenuti,  108. 
Mariam  (Jo.),  405. 

'«       (Petrus),  405. 
Mariana  Joh.),  35   b.,  66n. 


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Marineo  (Luc),  !"•.  »04.  »78.  184,  }o6, 

359.417- 
Marquetz  (des),  173. 
Marroquin  (Francesco),  375. 
Martin  (Andres  de  San),  2iy. 

de  Don  Benito  (Alonso),  2zS. 

de  Valencia,  309  389,  390. 

(Felix),  xxviii. 

(Friar),  289. 
"       (G.).  xxiii. 
Martinez  (Hen.),  204- 
Martinus  of  Amsterdam,  y,  78. 
Martyr  (Peter),  vel  d'Anghiera,  xliv,  2,  4, 

5,  14.  i7"-i  35.  47.  53.  S^"-  87. '^3- 
114,125,126.  151,  153,179.203.216. 
225  n.,  229,  279,  ^81.  286,  301,  313, 

348.  35'>  442- 
Mather  (Richard),  377. 
Mattiolo  (Pietro  Andrea),  xlviii.  430. 
Maty  (P.  H.),  344- 
Maximilian  (Mmperor).   73,   89,   92,   93,  | 

94.  95.  «35.  '38,  HJ.  H4. 
Maximilian  of  Transylvania,  224,  3 1 6,  349.  j 
Mazochius  (Jacobus),  120,  137,  140. 
Mazzuchelli  (G.  M.).  121,  123,  124,  188, 

268. 
Medicis  (Julian  de),  150,  151,  243  «.,  274. 
(Lorenzo  di  Pierfancesco),  55,  57, 
63,  64,  68,  69,  70,  71,  72.  73-  74.  76. 
82,  83,  84.  112. 
Medina  (Baltazar  Je),  209,  367  n. 
"       Cell  (Dukt  de),  2. 

(Pedro  de),  391,  413.  4-7- 
Mela,  see  Pomponius. 
Melancthon  (Peter),  292. 
Melendez  (Juan),  210. 
Mellini  (Domenico),  66. 
Melzi  (Gaet.  de'  Conti).  28  h. 
Mencke  (J.  B.),  xvi. 
Mendez  (Fr.),  izn.,  33.  168  ». 
Mendieta  (Geron.),  209. 
Mendoza  (Antonio  de),  428,  433. 
'•         de  Tendilla,  124,  152. 
'■         (Quintanilla  y),  281  «. 
"         {yicero-  Antonio),  367,  393. 
Mercator,  see  Marchant. 
Metellus  (Jo.  Matal.),  38. 
Meteren  (Emanuel  van),  xxxvii. 
Methina  (Joh.),  34. 

Meusel  (J.  G.),  xxii,  15,  3^.  4».  45.  49: 
50,  54,  58,  65».,  86n.,  88n.,  112,  115 
120,    121,    122,    147,   166,    177,    178 
259,  281,  292,  420  n. 
Mezzofanti  {Cardinal),  liii. 
Michatl  (Petrus),  12. 
Michelant  (H.),  416. 
Millan  (A.),  317  "• 


Mirteus,  137. 

Moerl,  38. 

Molma  (Alonso  Je),  xviii,  374,  375.465. 

466. 
Molina  (Argote  de),  38*. 
Molini  (Francis),  180. 
Molloy  (Charles),  3. 
Mommsen  (Joh.  Tycho),  41 6  n. 

Monapius  (Jo.  Valdicus),  347. 

Mongitore  (A.),  360  n. 

Mnnt.aigne  (Michel  de),  458. 

Montenegro  (Alonzo  de),  319  "• 

Montesinos  (Fernando),  319,  320. 

Montfaucon  (Bern.  de).  27. 

Montisferrati  (Cominus  de  Tridino),  422. 

Montmayor  y  Cordova  (J.  F.),  395. 

Montucla(J.  F.),  357. 

More  (Thomas),  156. 

Morelli  (Abbate).  2«..  7"..  8,  27,  75,  76, 
79,  80.  126,  265. 

Moreti(L.).  35". ,137.  256,  291,326,410. 

Morhart  (Ulr.),  299,  326. 

Mosheiin  (L.),  202,  344. 

Motolinia,i'f/TorribioBenevente,xix,2o8. 

Mexico  (Garcia),  482. 
Mulicho  (Jo.in.  Adel.),  116. 
■vel : 

Adolpl'.us. 
Mulich. 
Muller  (F.).  xxxiii.  xx.wi. 
Mulligan  (Rev.  John),  xxxiv. 
Multivallis  (John),  131. 
Munoz  (J.  B.).  2,  4,  5,  6,  7,  14,  18,  24, 

56,  57,  65,  i7i.  '94,  282 
Munster  (Sebast.),  57,  239,  363,  380,  384, 

404,  430,  438,  444. 
Murphy  (Hon.  Henry  C),  xxx,  xxxvii. 
Murr  (C.  G.  von),  39,  43.  >58.  ^^6  "• 
Musetti  (Juan  Pedro),  381. 
Mutee^uma,  -vel  Montezuma,  203,  222. 
Mylius(J.  C),  ix,  41. 


N 


Nadler  (Georgius),  10 1. 

Napione  (Gianfranc),  2  (.,   3,   5,  67,  76, 

115,  121,  128,  150.   .02,  313,  405- 
Narvaez  (Pamp.  de),  3,3. 
Natalis  de  Comitibus,  6"^. 
Navarrete    (Mart.    Fernuidez    de),    xviii, 
1       »».,  3,4,  5,  6,  II,  14"  ,  15,  '8,21,25, 

32,  46,    560.,    57,  58;.'.,   64,  66,  74, 

79,  85,  90,   116,   163,   168,  170,  172, 

194,  227,  257. 


Index. 


501 


Ntbel  (C).  III. 

Negri  (G.),  28  "••  58,  66n.,  121,  406. 

Newton  (Sir  Isaac),  357. 

Nkeron  (Jean  Pierre),  54,  86,  87.  104  «.. 

123,  180,  188,  182,  289,  451  n. 
Nicholas  de  Uonis,  107,  108. 

(Thomas),  2l8  n. 
Nicolai  (N.  de),  412. 
NicoUni  (A.  de),  218. 

de  Sabio  (Jo.  Ant.),  333.  380. 
Niebuhr  (B.  G.),  263, 
Nieremberg  (J.  EuSi;bius),  208.  257. 
Niflo  (Alonzo),  98,  112. 
•vel : 
Negro. 
Niiza  (Fr.  Marco  de).  319  n..  383. 
Nodier  (Cliarles),  96(1.,  105,  185,  269. 
Nolle  (Anthony  and  Barth.  de),  40. 
"  Nono,"  173. 
Noresianus  (Melchioi),  288. 
Noronha  (Leonor  de),  440. 
Notes  on  Columbus,  6,    15,  17,  l8,  19.  21, 
23,  27,  29,  33,  35,  45,  68,  69,  70.  72- 
73,  74,  80,  82,  84,  85,  no,  158.  177. 
Nouvion  (Victor  de),  xxxiv. 
Nucio  (Martin),  317  ". 
Nunez  (Alvarez),  see  Vaca. 

"      de  Balboa  (Vasco),  168,  245. 
'•       (Pedro),  356. 


o 


Oberlin  ^Jerem.  Ja.),  341. 
O'Callaghan  (E.  B.),  xxvii. 
Ocampo  (Florian  de),  281  «. 
vel : 

Docampo. 
Otarriz(J.  Flores  de),  xiii  n. 
Ocharte  (Melchior),  372. 

(Pedro),  372,  435.  447. 
Oegrm(Erhard),  xlix  1..  101,  175. 
Ojeda (Alonzo de),  56n..  58,  59,  168.  318. 
Olavc  (A.  de),  390. 
Olmedo  (Barthol.  dc).  170.  171. 
Olpe,  see  Bergmann. 
Oiia  (Pedro  de),  372  n..  376. 
Onate  (A.  de),  376  n. 
Opilionem  (Petrus),  285,  290. 
Ore  (Geronimo  de).  3760. 
Orellana  (F.  Pizarro  y),  205. 
Orio  (Hippolito),  156  «. 
Orl.mdi(P.  A.).  12.  308. 
Orosius  (Paulus),  164. 
Orozco  y  Berra  (Sefi.  .VIjii.),  2j6.  213. 


Orsuna  (F.  Bravo  de),  374. 
Ortelius  (Abraham),  (son.,  230.  239. 
Orthega  (Giovanni),  352. 
Ortiz  (Alonso),  26,  32. 

"     de  Zufiiga,  5. 
Osoriua  (Jerom.),  62  n.,  66«.,   226  n. 
Ossiander  (Andre.is),  387. 
Otniar  (Johannes),  65,  74,  'TS- 
Otto  (L.  G.  Count  de  Mosloy  ?),  391;. 
Oudin  (Franc),  41. 

Oviedo  (Gon(;alo  Fernandez  de).  xiv.  2. 
5,  27,  170,  204,  255,  257,  313,  319, 
337,  409-  425,  442. 


Hablod  (Juan).  210  «.,  366.  370,  372,426. 

428,  434. 
H.icini  de  I'iscia  (, Petrus),  47.  48. 
PadiUa  (F.    Augustin    Davila).   xiv,  168. 

209,  365,  369,  445. 
PaJouano  (Giovanni),  103. 
Paelinck,  see  Catalogue. 
Pagan  (Matth.),  170. 
Palacio  (G.ircio  dc),  376. 
Palazzi.  -vel  Palatius  (J.).  35  «. 
Pallavicini  (Antonio),  462. 
Palmeriub  (Matt.),  130,  131. 
Palmier  (Pierre),  378. 
Palomino  (AUbnso),  319". 
Pancaldo  de  Saona  (Leon).  229. 
Panizzi  {Mr.  A.),  82. 
Pannartz  (.Arnold),  26. 
Panzer  (G.  W.),  xxxi,  passim. 
Paracelsus,  vi. 
Paradieio  (Paolo),  1 56. 
Paredes  (Julian  de),  395  «. 
Parvus  (Johannes),  115,  126. 
vet ; 

Petit  (Jean),  14-!.  198. 
Pascal  (Blaise),  iii. 
Pasini  (Mapheo).  335. 
Pasquaglio  (Pietro),  98. 
Patin  (Chsrles),  282. 
Paul  III  {Pope).  168  n. 
Paulus  (Jo.),  433. 

'■       (Nic.  J.),  154. 
Pauthier(M.  G.),  107  .<. 
Payva,  see  De  Payv.i. 
Paz  (Augustin  de),  381 . 
Peck  (J.  M.),  xxxix. 
Pederzani  (Baptista),  241.  242,  430. 
Pedrari.is,  see  Davila. 
Pedro  (Enrique).  1 1  n. 


65 


4Vi 


502 


Bibiiotheca  Americana. 


Pegnuer  (Johannes),  Ji. 

Peignot  (Gabriel),  xiiv,  lSO». 

Peirce,  (William),  377- 

Pelliccr  y  Saforcada(J.  A.).  3*!*  "• 

Pentius  (Jacobus),  127. 

Perault  {Fath.),  xxviiin. 

Pereira  (Juan  de  Solor(;ano),  xv,  205,  395. 

Perez  (Barthol.),  327. 

Petrarch  (Franciscus),  271.,  2iyn. 

Petreius  (Joh.),  386. 

Petri  (Surtride),   271. 

Petrus  (Henricus),   295,   300.    322.    364, 

385,  404.  438.  444. 
Petzholdt  (Dr.  Julius),  X,  xxxv. 
Peypus  (Frederick),  179,  X34- 

Philip  I  (AT/n^).  58. 

"      \\(,King),\z,Ti. 
Philipono  (Honorio),  384. 

Phrisius  (Laurent),  200,  201. 

Picard"  (Juan),  381. 

Piccolomini  (Alessandro),  440/1.,  524. 

Piedra-Hita  (L.  Fernand.  de),  66  n. 

Pigafetta  (Francisco  Antonio),  226  n.,  229. 
247.248,249,  316,  349,  456- 

Pighius  (Albertus),  66  b..  180,   181,   391. 
407. 

Pilinski,  77. 

Pimentel  (Francisco),  213,  448. 

Pinelo,  ite  Leon. 

Pinkerton  (John),  251,  420  n. 

Pintho  (G.  Lopez  de),  58. 

Pinzon  (Vincent- Yanez).    57, 
75,98,  114,  173-  «75.  *93' 

Pirckeymero  (Bibibald.),  253. 
378. 

Piron  (Alexis),  212. 

Pisani  (Domenico),  80. 

Pizarro  (Francisco).  67  n.,  245.  317.  323. 

314.319.  33«- 
Pizarro  (Gonzales).  436,  442. 

"      (Hernando),  329. 

"      (Pedro),  319. 

"      y  Orellana.  317. 
Plannck  (Stephanus),  8,  9,  13,  34- 
Plato,  156. 

Pleydenwurt^' (Wilhelm),  37i  38- 
Pliny,  107,  126. 
Poccianti  (M.),  28  n.,  64n. 
Polanco  (Lodovico),  483. 
Poleur  (Jean),  340. 
PoUero,  3  n. 
Polo  (Marco),  xlvi,  107,  I26«.,  185,  186 

192,  305. 
Polonus  (Stanislaus),  12,  2b. 
Pomponius  Mela,  147,  159,  160,161.  183 

190,  277. 
Pontanus  (J.  Jov.),  409n. 


172,   194, 


Ponte  (Gotardo  da),  328,  331  ".,  33*- 

"      ue  De  Ponte. 
Popelliniere  (L.  V.  de  la),  216. 
Porrus  (Petrus  Paulus),  154,  155. 
Porta  (Hugo  a),  378. 
Posa  (Petrus),  12. 
Postel  (GuiUaume)  12. 
Praet,  let  Van  Praet. 
Pre,  ue  Du  Pre. 
Prescott  (W.   H.).  24  «.,   170 

206,  219,  220,  257,  259  n.,  282,  317. 
Pronotariis  (Andrea  de),  368. 
Ptolemaeus,  78,  92,  105,  116,    1 19,    126, 
127,    128,    133,    135,    163,    164,    184, 
192,  253,  285,  363,  378,  384,430- 
•uel : 

Ptolemy,  46,  59"..  107,  108,  109, 
120,  342. 
Puccius  (P.  A.),  350. 
Puente  (Gonzales  de  la),  209. 
Puga  (Vasco  de).  21 1  «.,  375.  393- 
Pulgar  (Ferdinand).  281  n. 
Purchas  (Samuel),4n.,  206,  258,  329,  383. 
Puys,  i«  Du  Puys. 
Pynson  (Richard),  148. 


58  n.,   60. 
342.  363. 


Q 


yuadrio  (Fran.  Saverio),  31. 

52uaritch  (B.).  xxiv. 

yuerard  (J.  M.),  xxxii. 

yuetif  and  Echard,  xvii.  xli,  155,  447- 

yuincy  (Jos.),  xxv. 


R 


Raetzel,  ice  Catalogue. 

Rafn  (Christ.),  261. 

Raguenau  (Fath.  Paul),  xxviii. 

Raidel  (G.  M.),  no,  128,  136,  202,  345, 

43"- 
Raleigh  (Sir  Walter),  125B. 

Rame  (Alfred),  416  n. 

Ramirez  (Geronimo),  204. 

Ramusio  (Giov.  Bat.),  xv,  xlv,  \n.,  56(1.. 
6on.,  63,  171,  174.  206,  218,  226 n., 
250,  258,  319,  349,  383.  4«6.  455- 

Ranke  (L.),  5611. 

Rastall,  vel  Rastell  (William),  148. 


•w 


mf 


Index. 


503 


Rayon  (J.  L.)i  io6. 

Rea  (Alonso  de  la),  209. 

Redouer  (Mathurin  du),  56(1.,  6^  n.,  145, 

146,  148,  Z69. 
Reichardt  (C.  F.),  XXXV. 
Reid  {Mr.),  xxiii. 
Re'm.i  of  Milan,  ste  Catalogue. 
Reisch  (Gregory),  xlviii,  HSi  '44.  34'- 
Remesal  (Antonio  de),  xl,  204,  375,  396. 
Rena  (Cosimo  dcUa),  66. 
Renault  (Jacques),  xxviii. 
Rene  {fCing),  3,  100,  108  ». 
Renouard  (A.  A.),  131  «.,  268. 
Resende  (And.  Falcam  de),  284. 
"        (Angelo  Andr.),  283,  284. 
•'        (Garcia  de),  6,  284,  411,  411. 
Ruschius  (Conrad),  341. 
Reusi  (J.  D.),  xlix. 
Revelles  (John  de),  232,  233  n. 
Rey  (Firmin  del),  212. 
Reyei  (Fr.  A.  de  los),  376,  449. 
Rezabal  y  Ugarte  (J.  de),  388. 
Ribas  (A.  Perez  de),  210. 
Ribero  (Diego),  127  n. 
Ricardo  (Antonio),    372. 

Ricci  Filippo,  483. 
"     (Giuliano),  56.  • 

Riccioli  (Jo.-Bapt.),  38. 

Rich  (Obadiah),  xix,  pauim. 
"     (George),  xxx. 

Richard  (Joannes),  400. 

Richarderie  (G.  Boucher  de  la),  xxiv. 

Richelius  (V.),  351. 

Rigaud  (Benoist),  15. 

Rikel  (Dion),  402,  403. 

RiUiet  (Albert  ?),  344. 

Rincon  (A.  del),  376. 

Ring  (F.  D.),  206. 

RingmannuSi-te/.Philesius  (Matthias),  83 
96,  128. 

Ritheymerus  (Georg.),   522. 

Riva,  ue  Catalogue. 

Rive  (Abbe),  v. 

Rizo  (de  Novara  Berno.),  104. 
"     (Juan  Pablo  Martir),  125. 

Robles  (Pedro  de),  427. 

Robert,  vel   Robertus    Monachus,    11  n. 

xxii.,  I4>  3°°- 
Robertson  (W.),  xviii,  3,  65,  168,  206. 
Robledo  (Jorge),  321  n. 
Rocha  Pitta  (Sebast.  de),  66  n. 
Roce  (Denis),  71. 
Roche  (Michael  de  la),  344. 
Rodriguez  (J.),  xvii. 
Roman  (A.  de  San),  225  n. 
Romero  (Jose  Guadalupe),  xli. 
Romeu  (Garcia),  382. 


Romey  (C),  344. 

Ronchini  (Amadio),  47. 

Roijuette,  lee  De  la  Roquette. 

Roselly  dc  Lorgues,  vel  de  Valblette  ?   5, 

no. 
Rosny  (Lucien  de),  15,  21  n. 
Rothelin  d'Orleans,  lee  Catalogue. 
Roulin(F.  D. '),  85. 
Roure  (P.),  212. 
Rousseau  (J.  J.),  219  n. 
Roux  de  Rochelle,  212. 
Rubalcava  (J.  Gutierrez  de),  xii. 
Ruchamer  (Jobst),  xxii,  2,   56.  63,  ill. 

112. 
Rurtus  (Joannes),  151,  152. 
Rufus,  (Festus),  162.  ., 

Rumohr  (C.  F.  von),  385. 
Rusconi  ( [oanne  Antonio),  240. 
"        ([oanne  Francischo),  240. 
("/orzi  de),  1 59,  463. 
Rusconibus  (Georgius  de),  85,  133. 
Ruysch  (Jean),  108,  109,  no. 


Sabellico  (M.  Ant.),  14,  52,  53,  87,  115. 

132.  '59.  440. 
vel : 

(Coccio  Sabellicus),  333,  358. 
Sabio  (Cornelius  de),  405. 
"     (Nicolinis  de),  242,  405. 
■'     (Stephano  da),  328,  331. 
Sacro  Bosco  (Giovanni),  352. 
■vel : 

Holywood  (John). 
Sagard-Theodat  (Gab.),  xviii. 
Sagra  (Ramon  de  la),  Son. 
Saint  Gelais  (Jean  de),  355. 
Saisset  (Emile),  344. 
Sahagun  (Bernardino  de),  xix,  204,  208, 

383- 
Saita  (Francis  de  la),  98. 
Salazar  (F.  Cervantes),  211,  374,  435- 
Salengre  (Albert  Henry),  86. 
Salig  (Christ.  Aug.),  41. 
Salinero  (Jul.),  2,  3. 
Salvini  (Ant.  Mar.),  66. 
Sanchez  (Pedro),   320  n. 

"        (Raphael,  fe/  Gabriel),   i,   6,   7, 
II,  16,  18,  19,  20,  22,  24,  25,  44. 
vel  : 

Sane  his. 
Sanxis. 


504 


Bibliotheca   Americana. 


Sandius  (Chriiloplier),  344. 

Sandb  (Robert),  218. 

Sansovino  (Frantisco),  104. 

Santander  (Cli.   A.   de  la  Seiiu),    li,  71, 

78,  402. 
Santaiigel  (Luis  de),  6,  24,  15. 
Santarein    (Manuel-Franc,    de),     66,    67. 

108,  no,  136,  141,  303,  305.  431. 
Santdner(F.  E.),  205. 
Santiago  (Toribio),  482. 
Santoyo  (Martel),  321  n. 
Sapido  (Sulpicio),  276. 
Saravia  (Bravo  de),  319"- 
Sarawolski  (Sim.),  323,  432. 
Sardela  (Juan  Bautista),  321  «. 
Sarmiento  (Juan),  322  n. 
Savigny  (Christolfe  de),  vii. 
Savorganus  (I'eter),   219,  233,   236,  241, 

289,  441. 
Saxius  (Christophoruj),  54,  66,  88.  144 
Scaliger  (Julius  Caesar),  268. 
Schade,  344. 

Schedel  (Hartmann),  37,  42. 
Scheffer  (Johan.),  290  n. 
Schelhorn  (J.  G.),  41,  381, 
Scherzer  (Carl),  xxxv. 
Schitlalirt  (Ander),  xxvii. 
ScliliJzer  (A.  L.  von),  283. 
Schmidel  (Ulrich),  xxvii,  383. 
Schmidius,  vel  Schmid  (Thomas),  41. 
Schiiner  (Jolin),   65.  140,  142,  143,  182. 
304,  305,  387,  425. 

Schoolcraft  (H.  R.),  xl. 

Srhott  (Andrew),    14,  453. 
vel ! 
Escoto. 

Schott  (Joannes),  135. 

Schreyer  (Sebaldus),  37. 

Schurer  (Matt),  139. 

Schwartz  (C.  G.),  38. 

Schwindel  (G.  J.),  330. 

Scinzenzeler(Joan.  Ang.),  105,  163,  171. 

Scotus  (Joannes),  178. 

Seckendorff  (Vit.  Lud.),  326. 

Seelen  (Jo.  Henr.  von),  344. 

Senarega  (Barth.),  2,  3,  12. 

Senior,  see  Alt. 

Sepulveda  (J.  Gines  de),   168,   104,  274, 

Serna  (La),  i«  Santander.  ■ 
Sertenas  (Vincent),  410. 
Servetus  (Michael),  59,  65,  67,  202,  342, 
378. 
■vel : 

Villanova. 
Sessa  (Mekhior),  333,  380,  405. 
Seyler  (Jean),  141. 


Seyssel  (Claude  de),  355". 
Sforlia  (Ludov.  Maria),  4$. 
Storza  (Ascanio),  123,  280. 
Shakespeare,  viii  n. 
Shouten  (W.  C),  x,  xii. 
Sigmond  (G.),  344. 
Silber  (Euch.),  7,  8.  14.  18,  ifi.  34 
vel  I 

Argentcut, 
Argyrios. 
Silva,  tee  Ua  Silva  (Gaetano). 

"      (Jos.  A.),  482. 
Simon  (Fr.  Pedro),  65. 
Singrenius  (Hierony.  &  Joan.),  138. 
Sinzia,  tee  Cintra. 
Smith  (Buckingham),  383,  485. 
Soderini  (Pietro),  56. 
Solinus  (Julius),  91,  107,  159,  181. 
Solis  (Antonio  de),  170,  173,  175,  205. 

"     (Juan  Diaz  de),  227  n. 
Solorzano  Pereira  (Johannes  de),  61;. 
Soltwedel  (Alexander),  205. 
Soprani  (R.),  156. 
Sora  (Gabriel  de),  xv. 
Soria  (Lope  de),  328. 
Soto  Mayoi,  ue  Villagutiere. 
Sousa  (Martin  Alfonso  de),  356. 
Southey  (Robert),  61. 
Southwell  (Nathaniel),  xli. 
Souza  (F.iria  y),  225  ».,  227  m. 

"      (J.  M.  Beristain  y),  ue  Beristain. 
Spencer  (Herbert),  i. 
Spicigelium  veter.  itcul  xv,  168. 
Spinoza  (de),  tee  Espinosa. 
Spondc  (Hcnr.  de),   326. 
Spotorno  (J.  B.),  2,  3,  4,  5. 
Sprengel  (Mat.  Chr.),  97. 
Squiers  (E.  G.),  xl. 
Stamler  (John),  loi,  102,  103. 
Steelsius  (Joannes),  351,  425. 
Steinhowell  (Henrich.'),  346. 
Stobnicza  (John  de),  128,  164,  165,  166, 

313  n.,  463. 
Stockier  (F.  de  Borgia-Gar^ao),   357. 
Stoecklein  (Jos.),  xli. 
Stocttier  (John),  353". 
Stow  (John),  148  B. 
Strabo,  107. 

Strozzi  (Zuanc  de),  474. 
Struvius  (Burc.  Gotth.),  344.  405. 
Stuchssen  (Joan),  14^1,  143. 
Stiichszen  (George),  III. 
Stuvenius  (J.  F.),  38,  65. 
Suarez  (Fernan.),  436. 
Sussex  (Duke  of),  35. 
Swertius  (Franc),  310. 
Sweynheim  (Conrad),  a6,  no. 


Index. 


505 


Sykcs  (&>  Mark),  iie  Cuiulogue. 
SylUciu  (Nich.).  in.,  45,  46. 

Vll ! 

Scillacio. 
Syllacius. 
Syltach  (N.    Y.   reprint),    17,    18,  ly,  21, 

»3.  29.  3'.  47-  50.  53.  S-^- 
Sylva  (Innocfntiu  d.i),  184.  41Z 
Sylvanus  (Bi'rn.ird,),  126.  127. 
S)lvius  (Aeni'Js),  xlv,  40,  41,  164. 
W.- 
Pius U(Fope). 


Tacitus  (Corneliui),  2,  53. 

TaillanJier  (A.  H.),  23. 

Tamayro  (Thomas),  xv. 

Tapia  (Andres  de),  204. 

Tardit(Guillaumc),  146. 

Tassio  (Abra.),  221. 

Taunstetter  (Georges),  138,  140, 
vtt: 

Taunstelter,  1  39. 

Taxander,  tee  Andre. 

Tavlor  (A.  S.),  xxxix. 

Techo(N.  del),  383- 

Teis.-ier  (Antoine),  123,  238,  312,  357. 
VeWei  (Melchior),  435. 

Tellus  (Fernando),  482. 

Temporal  (Jean),  61,  63. 

Tendilla  (Count),  280. 

tee  Mendoia  de  Tenilill.i. 

Teresa  (Dofta),    -582. 

Ternaux  (Hennj.  vel.  Ternaux-Campans, 
xxxii,  15,  18,  19,  21,45,74,84,  85, 
95,  99-  >05>  "*•  '"S>  "7i  liSi  '^6, 
148.  150,  153,  163,  169,  172,  173, 
174,   187,    188,   206,   210,  212,   316, 

383.417- 
Tezozomoc  (Alvarado),  208. 
Thierry  (Augustin),  vi. 
Thomas,  32. 

"      (Isaiah),   373. 
"      (W.),  409  n.,  437. 
Thomassy  (Raymond),  88,  109,  249. 
Thorniike.  xxv. 
Thou,  tee  De  Thou. 
Thurmann  (Caspar),  v. 
Ticknor  (George),  xvi,  32,  257,  259,  329. 

340,  368,  388,  485. 
Tiraboschi  (Girolamo),   5,  29,  53,  59,  60, 

65,  88,  99,   115,   156,  186,250,268, 

360  «. 


Toresano  (M.  Frederico),  423. 
Torri,  vel  Turtleus  (Thormod.),  161. 
Torquemada  (Juan  de),  xi,  204,  383. 
Torre-Palnici  {Count  Je),  339. 
Torres  (F.  Caro  de),  205. 
Tuscanelli  (Paolo),  4. 
Totzcn  (E.),  65. 
•vel : 

Tu/.e  and  Tosinua,  109,  110. 
Tournes  (Jean  de),  421. 
Trechsel  (Melchior),  343. 

"  (Caspar),  343,  378. 

Trepperel  (Jehan).  145,  146. 

(IVidow),  146,  147. 
Trigautius  (Nicolaus),  xxviii. 
Tristan  (Nuno),  107. 
Trithemus  (Joannes),  41,  86,  347. 
Trivigiano  (Angelo),  2,  75,  80. 
Tronibelli  (J.  C.),  xlvii. 
Tronu-l   (Paul),  xiii,  xxxiii,  95,  262,  170. 

303,  310. 
Tninus  (Peter  Martyr),  123. 
Triibner  (Nicolas),  xl. 
Trucchi  (Francesco),  67  n. 
Trueba  (Telesforo  de),  205. 
Turner  (Sharon),  2. 

"      (W.  W.),  xl,  214. 


u 


Ubclin,  108  n.,  133,  178. 

Ughelli    (I'erdinando),    8 ».,    28"., 

210,  438. 
Ulhart  (Philipp),  441. 
Ulricher  (George  von  Andler),  311. 
I'ngler  (Florian),  129. 
Ungut  (Mainard.),  12,  26. 
Urano  (C.  M.),  15. 
Urbain  VIII  {Pope).  2X2. 


- 


V 


Vaca  (Cabe^a  de),  381. 
Vadianus  (Joachim),  91,  147  n..  160,  161. 
190,  191,  277,"  312,  342,  464. 
vel : 
Watt. 
Val  (Raphael  du  Petit),  41 6  n. 
Valayre  (G.   de),  pteudon.    tor  Ch-irle^   .1j 

Bonstetten,  344. 
V.ilerianus  (Jo.  Pierius),  53  n. 


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Bibliotheca  Americana. 


Valgriti  (Vicenzo),  437. 

Valiente  (Ambrosio),  xxxviii. 

Valori  (Baccio),  6a. 

yalori-Banditti,  59  h.,  6on.,  61  «.,  61 ». 

Valverde  (Vicente  de),  310  n. 

Van  der  Linden  (J.  A.),  4i^- 

Van  Praet  (Jos.),  nOi  128,  158. 

Vapereau  (G.),  xxxii. 

Varga  (Francesco),  483. 

Vargas  (F.   M.  de),  375. 

V.irnhagen  (F.  A.  de),  xlix,  60  ».,  171, 

173.  '74,  469- 
Varrerius,  tee  Barreiros. 
Varthema  (Ludovico  de).  169,  170,  171, 

194.  253-  335. 
•vel : 

Bartliema. 

Ludovicus  Patricius  Ronunus. 
Varibemo. 
Varomicer. 
Varonmiser. 
Varrummicer. 
Vartomanus.-' 
VasiEus  (Joli.),  aSi.  i 

Vasari  (Giorgio),  66. 
Vasco  da  Gama,  sei  Gania. 
Vasconcellos  (Aug.  Manuel),  4/1.,  6,  61  n. 

«'  (P.  Simon  de),  357. 

Vasquez  (Francisco),  xl. 
Vater  (J.  S.),  xl. 
Vedia  (Enrique  de),  216,  218. 
Vega  (Gabriel  Lasso  de  la),  21  i. 

"     (Garcilasso  de  la),  245,  317,   383. 

"     (Lope  de),  112. 

"     (Melchior  de  la),   212. 

Vela  (Blasco  Nuflez),  436. 

Velasco  (Juan  de),  319.  ; 

"       (Luis  de),  367. 

Velascus  (Ferdinandus),  45  '■. 

Velasquez  (Diego),  170,  176. 

Vera  (Pedro  de),  383. 

Veracruce  (Alph.  a),  374 

Verardus  (Carol.),  9,  14,  17,  43.  3°°- 

Vercellensis  (Bernardinus),  52. 

Vercellesc  (Albertino),  75,  99. 

Verde  (Simone  del),  470. 

Vergara  (Juan  de),  153,  281,  282. 
"        (Margarita  de),  256. 

Vermilli  (Peter  Martyr),  123. 

Verrano  (Paulo),  221.      . 

Verri  (Pictro),  25. 

Vespuccius  (Americus).  53,  55,  57.  5^,  59. 
60,  61,  62,  63,  64,  65,  66,  67,  68,  6y, 
70,  71,  72,  73,  74,  75'  76.  77.  81,  83, 
84,  85,  88,  89,  91,  92,  93,  94.  95> 
98,  loi,  102,  104.  112,  115.  n6,  119. 
121,   114,   138,  142,   149-  '5°.  •**' 


201,  226,  238,  269,   304,   352,  4*6. 

450.  456.  463- 
ve! : 

Despuchi,  56. 
Espuche,  56. 
Vespotius,  84,  142. 
Vespucci,  140,  149. 
Vespuccio,  56. 
Vespuce,  109,  145,  146- 
Vespuche,  56. 

Vespucius  (Albericus),  55,  57,  68, 
69,  70,  71,  72,  73,  74,  76,  96, 
104,  184. 
Vespuchy,  56 

Vesputius,  77,  130,  I59>  >65. 
Vetancurt  (A.  de),  205,  375. 
Veterano  (S.  Petro  di  Oropesa),  482. 
Veytia  (Marino),  209. 
Vianello  (Hironymo),  56. 
Viano   de    Lexona    (Bernardino    de),    24, 

218. 

Vibius  (Aug.),  159. 
Vicentinus  (Gabriel),  47. 
Victor  (Hieron.),  138,  165. 

"       (P.),  159- 
Viligas  (Gaspard),  3l4'<- 
Villa  (Jacobus  de),  26. 
Villagra  (Caspar  de),  212. 
ViUagutierre    Soto-mayor   (Juan   de),   xl, 

205. 
Villalobras  (Arias),  212. 
Villanova,  see  Servetus. 
Villanueva  (Juan  de),  427. 
,  Villareal  {Marfuei  de),  440. 

Villiers  (Philippe  de),  250. 
■  Vitallis  (Ordericus),  261. 
:  Vivaldi  (Ugolin  di),  190. 
i  Vizcaino  (Sebastian),  xi. 
Vogt  (Charles),  iii. 
Voltaire,  219. 
Volterranus,  see  Matfei. 
Vorstermann  (Wni),  11,  12.  73- 
Vossius  (G.  J.),  41.   54,  67«-,  *'7«-.  ^'i, 
I       129,   137,    140.   '41.    '56,    «6i,   166, 
!       238,263,281. 


w 


Wadler,  read  ^ni  see  Weidler. 
Wagenseil  (Joh.  Christoph.),  38. 
Walcknaer,  see  Catalogue. 
Waldeck  (Fred,  de),  21 1. 
Waldseemiiller,  "ve/  WaltzmiiUer,  Waluc- 
muUer,  see  Hylacomylus. 


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Index. 


507 


vi, 


Wale  (Peter  de),  476. 
Warden  (David  B.),  xxv,  211. 
Watt  (Robert),  181,  437. 
Watts  (Thomas),  XV. 
Wechel  (Christianus),  299,  409 
Weidler(J.  F.),  142  «.,  181. 
Weigel  (T.  O.),  xxiv. 
Weissenburg  (Wolfgang),  351. 
Weld  (Thomas),  377. 
Wetherell  (Juan).  211. 
WeyfFenburgers  (Joannis),  237. 
Weynssen  (Matthias),  309. 
Widdilove  {Rev.),  xviii. 
Wigand  (Johan.),  344. 
Wilhelm  (Karl),  261. 
Will  (G.  A.),  142. 
Willes  (Richard),  126. 

"       (William),  xxxix. 
Wilson  (R.  A.),  io6. 
Winterburger  (Johannes),  162. 
Winthrop  (Gt;T'.  J.).  377. 
Wolrt"  (Thomas),  166. 
Wolgemuth  (Michatl),  37,  38. 
Woltersdorf  (E.  G.),  439. 
Wright  (Thomas),  xxxiii,  344. 
Wuelfer,  ■vcl  Wiilffer  (Joh.),  38. 
Wytertiet  (Corn.),  xii. 


X 


Xenophon,  156. 

Xerez  (Fr.  de),  245,  318,  327,  330,  424. 

Ximenez  (Francisco).  12,  368. 


Y 


Yeardly  (Gov.),  xi. 

Yves  d'Evreux  (Path.),  3I4«. 


Zaccaria  (F.  A.),  17  n. 
Zach  (Baron  de),  xlii,  3  «. 
Zaffenus  (Gregorius),  276. 
"        (Servatius),  283. 
Zamaria,  96. 
Zanetti  (B.),  352. 
Zapata  (Ludovico),  482. 
Zapr(G.  W.),  74.  102.  «74.  i75- 
Zarate  (Augustin  de),  318,  321  n. 
'       "       (Fernando  de),  212. 
Zazzera  (Ftancesco),  354. 
Zeni  (N.  and  Ant.),  192,  308. 
Zeno  (Apostolo),  155.  186,  268. 
,  Ziegler  (J.),  60  n.,  290,   350. 
•vet : 

Ciglerus. 
Zierixcensis,  see  Amandus. 
Zorzi  (Alessandro),  2,  63,  96,  97,    104, 

112,  114,  130,  185,  186,  187,  469. 
Zumarraga  (Fr.  Juan  de),  21^,  ».,  289,  303, 

396,  398,  402,  419,  423. 
Zufiiga,  see  Ortiz. 
Zurita  (A.  de),  208,  21  3  n. 
Zurla  (D.  Placido),  75,  76,   97,  99-   '^8- 
■       192,  457- 


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EMENDANDA  ET  CORRIGENDA. 

{A  number  of  these  errors  were  discovered  in  time  to  he  corrected  tn 
the  Quarto  edition  of  this  work.) 


PAGE  X,  line  4,  read  Petzholdt. 

Page  XXV,  /.  I,  instead  of  "  we  feel,"  read  .     We  feel. 

Page  xxvii,  /.  7,  read  cover. 

Page  XXX,  /.  49,  in  note  91,  read  pp.   249,  including  a  very  good 

index,  and  list  of  MSS.,  1152  numbers,  to  the  year  1700. 
Page  xxxi,  /.  43,  instead  of  "  full,"  read  tall. 
Page  XXXV,  I.  1 7,  strike  out  ". 
Page  xxxviii,  instead  of  "  Ludwig,"  read  Ludewig  ;  and  note 

1 14  should  be  in  italics. 
Page  xxxix,  note  120,  /.  16,  read  March. 
Page  xlv,  transpose  note  139  on  the  next  page  in  the  place  of  note 

140. 
Page  xlvi,  transpose  note  140  on  the  preceding  page  in  the  place 

of  note  139. 
Page  xlix,  note  158,  /.  2,  after  "  1756,"  add  3  parts  in  ;  and  read 

[Franck]. 
Page  I,  note  *,  instead  of  "  April  25th,"  read  April  29th. 
Past  2,  /.  7,  add  or  Palombo  (G/^//<7,  in  Boemus'  Gli  Costumi) ;  I. 

12    after  "Cugureo,"  add  {Benzoni) ;  note  2,  /.   2,  instead  of 

"  i2mo,"  read  8vo  ;  and  after  "  1614,"  add  Milan,  8vo;  note 

3,  instead  of  "  8vo,"  read  4to. 
Pa^,f  -I    /.   2,  after  "  Albisola,"    add  {Ph.   Labbeus)  ;   I.   6,  add 

1442  (y^/ff^5)  ;  /.  8,  instead  of  "  orbus,"  read  ortus  ;  note  33, 

fl//^  1 58 1 
Page  4/10,  r^«^  the  letter  of  Toscanelli  to  Fernan  Martins  ; 

note\o,  instead  of  "  1603,"  read  1556,  1565,  1606  ;  note  54, 

add  F.  Colombo,  Historic,  verso  of  fol.  31. 


-'lf;lflUUI«t 


flO  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

Page  5,  note  59,  add  2  vols.  8vo,  1856.    ., 

Page  6,  /.  12,  instead  of  "  When,"  read  While. 

Page  7,  /.  2,  instead  of  "  in,"  read  into  ;  I.  7,  instead  of  "  when," 

read  in  which. 
Pag,  8,  /.  8,  instead  of  "  incunahula"  read  incunabula. 
Page  10,  /.  15,  strike  out  "  it." 

Page  II,  note  72,  /.  17,  instead  of  "  duum,"  read  dnum. 
Page  r4,  /.  29,  after  "  Amati's,"  add  Ricerche ;  note  81,  instead 

of  "  8vo,"  read  4to  ;  note  84,  read  Trivulzio. 
Paze  15,  /.  3,  add  16  pages  of  extracts  have  been  inserted  in  the 
Milan  edition  of  F.  Columbo's  Historic  /.   21,  add  We  find 
a  translation  into  Dutch,  in  the  collection  of  Conrad  Loew, 
Cologne,  fol.  1598,  pp.  1-16. 
Page  24,  /.   5,  nWllftruffimos  ;  note  i,  add  Presto  diez  y  siete 
mil   florines.     Argknsola,  yfnales  de  yfragon,  lib.  i,  cap.  10,   . 
p.  100. 
Page  34,  note  *,  instead  of  "  Didacus  Luppi,"  read  Diego  Lopez  ; 

instead  of  "  Gonzalvo  Ferdinand,"  read  Fernandez. 
Page  35,  note  J,  last  /.,  read  kings,. 
Page  37,  note  *,  /.  I,  read  of  this  book. 
Page  38,  note  12,  read  Dutens's. 

Page  39,  /.,  instead  of  "  fultantes,"  read  fulcantes  ;   instead  of 
"  ifi,"  read  in  ;  instead  of  "  proiciebat.,"  read  proiciebat' ;  note 
20, 'instead  of"  1778,"  read  1779. 
Page  40,  /.  8,  instead  of  "  James  Caniis,"  read  Diogo  Cam. 
Page  42,  /.  4,  instead  of 

tPtl    read  jjffi 

note  t,  /.  I,  read  book  ;  /.  11,  instead  of  "  free,"  read  Imperial 
and  Royal  ;  /.  12,  instead  of  "  15th,"  read  5th. 

Page  43,  /.  I,  read  No.  13  ;  note  t,  after  "  Spains,"  read  of 
Bethica  and  Kingdom  of  Granada,  the  siege. 

Page  44,  /.  20,  instead  of  "  8vo,"  read  4to. 

Page  45,  note  *,  after  "  decern  insule"  add  [the  Azores  and  For- 
migas]  ;  col.  2,  instead  of  "  under  the  reign  of  Henry,"  read 
under  the  reign  of  Alonzo  Vth,  King  of  Portugal,  through 
his  uncle  Prince  Henry,  Duke  of  Viseo. 


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Emendanda  et  Corrigenda. 


5»i 


Page  46,  /.  4,  read  maris. 

Page  47,  /.  19,  read  LPLII. 

Page  48,  note  2,  read  Chaudon. 

Page  49,  /.  I,  read  uulgari. 

Page  52,  /.  17,  read  FELICITER  ;  /.  18,  read  SV  ||  PERSTITI. 

Page  53,  /.  30,  instead  of"  Decad.,"  read  Enncad. 

Page  56,  /.  2,  add  or  Emericus  (Vfspu  -'ius  himself,  a[).  Bandiiii., 

p.  xxviij) ;  note  16,  instead  of  "  Gi  ."at,"  read  Grand. 
Page  58,  note  41,  read  Biblioteca. 

Page  59,  /.  22,  instead  of  "  1497,"  '''"'^  H94  (.according  to  the 

inscription  on   Cabot's  map.      Cf.  D'Avezac,  Bulletin  de  la 

Societe  de  Geographies,  for  Oct.,  1857,  note  K.) 
Page  60,  /.  3,  after  "  {Humboldt\''  add  or  Diego  dc   Lepe  (Bul- 

)etin  de  la  Societe  de  Geographies,  Oct.,  1858,  §  xi). 
Page  61,  /    2,  after   "probably,"    add  Nuno    Manuel    but   not 

under  Cabral ;  note  79,  instead  of  "  410,"  read  "iwo. 
Page  62,  note.,  I.  3,  read  de  Cazal,  and  add  id.,  8vo,  i83;{;   note 

88,  read  Lyons,  1517,  and  strike  out  the  three  lines  following.' 
Page  63,  /.  26,  instead  of  "  Zorzi,"  read  Fracanzio  da   Monlal- 

boddo. 
Page  64,  note  I02,  /.  /,  instead  of  "  Kerr,"  read  Michael  Herr. 
Page  65,  /.  19,  read  Formaleoni,  and  de  Cazal. 
Page  66,  /.   5,  read  Metellus  ;  /.  8,  instead  of  "  Genebricr,"  rcud 

Genebrard. 
Page  70,  /.  24,  read 

|lttttt^u0  n0uu0 

/.   28,  after  "  natura,"  add  et ;  /.  29,  instead  of  "  opa,"   read 

Page  71,  /.  I,  Vefputius  ;  /.  4,  add  sine  anno  aut  loco;  I.  16, 
add  Direct  reference:   Bright's  Catalogue,  No.  5813. 

Page  75,  /.  10,  after  "  Foscarini,"  add  Delia  Lett.  Fenex..,  p.  427  ; 
after  "  Zurla,"  add  Di  Marco  Polo.,  &c..  Vol.  11,  pp.  362-5  ; 
after  "  Morelli,  add  the  learned  librarian  of  the  St.  Mark 
possessed  a  copy  of  the  work  in  181 8  [Lettera  rariss..,  p.  44). 
The  Libretto  was  originally  in  the  Canonici  library. 

Page  79,  note  2,  /.  il,  read  fourth  voyage. 


ri2  Bibliotheca  Americana.         ' 

Page  84,  read  Voii  der  Nuewen  welt. 

Page  86,  /.  2,  read  Loredano. 

Page  89,  /.  9,  itrike  out  "  the  Mazarine  Library  contains  a  speci- 
men which,  so  far  as  it  goes,  is  identical  with  the  Eyries" 
(The  Mazarine  copy,  M.  D'Avezac  assures  us,  corresponds 
not  to  our  No.  44,  but  rather  to  our  No   47.) 

Page  93,  /.  14,  instead  of  ''•  »  TtXaS"  read  »  TiXor. 

Page  gb"",  after  note  11,  insert  the  following  note  from  M.  D'Ave- 

"Les  amalgames  indiques  comme  possibles  le  sont  en  etiet  a 
la  rigueur,  mais  il  ne  sont  par  probables,  faute  de  motif;  tandis 
que  la  reclamation  de  Waltzemiilk.r  contre  la  falsification  qui  se 
produisait  dans  les  editions  (Nos.  45  et  46)  amcna  la  reintegra- 
tion des  feuillets   retranches  (du  No.   44)   ec  la  formation  par 
cette  voie  de  I'amalgame  que  nous  avons  (^No.  47).  _  Cette  derniere 
emission,  tout  en  conservant  la  date  du  4  des  Calendes  de  Sep- 
tembre  1507,  ne  diit  etre  ainsi  etablie  de  fait  qu'apres  la  recla- 
mation publice  la  veille  des  calendes  d'  Avril  1508.*    Ilacomilus 
lui-meme  refit  une  nouvelle  edition  complete  en  1509,  a  Stras- 
bourg [No.   60],  chez  ce  meme  Gruniger  qui  avait  public  sa 
reclamation  [first  in  the  Margarita  of  1508]." 
Page  96s  /.  I,  instead  of  "  1552,"  read  1522  ;  /.   16,  instead  of 
"  the  work  is  dedicated  to  Rene  II,"  read  As  to  the  prmce 
to  whom  the  letter  ascribed  to  Vespuccius  is  erroneously  ad- 
dressed (as  it  was  in  reality  written  to  Soderini) 

Page  97,  /.  23,  read  da  Cintra. 

Page  103,  /.  19,  after  "  dal,"  add  venerando  del  ordine  b;remi- 

tano,  primo  auctore  aggiunte  ed  emendate ins.no  ;  /. 

21,  add  Georgio  de  Rusconi ;  /.  22,  read  332  et  333. 
Page  105,  /.  19,  read  GEographia  ;  note  '%  I.  5,  after  "  and,"  add 

with  the  ;  note  i,  /.  6,  read  et  a-u. 
Page  106,  /.  21,  read  AVDEBVNT. 

Page  107,  /.  2,  instead  of  "  de  Donis,"  read  the  German  Nich- 
olas ;  note  I,  read  Bologna  ;  /.  2,  after  "  or,"  add  Vicenza. 
Page  109,  /.  15,  read  protecteur  plus  puissant. 
Page  1 10,  /.  27,  instead  of  "  Memoires,"  read  Bulletin;  note  9, 
read  by  Warden,  the  continuator  of. 

*  To  form  a  perfect  copy  of  the  original  sets  has  only  to  substitute  in  the  place  of 
edition  of  the  Comografhia  Introducto,  leaves  i,  2,  5  and  6  of  No.  45,  leaves  i, 
the  fortunate  owner  of  the  three  subsequent     2,  5  and  6  of  No.  47. 


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Page  112,  /.  I,  read  Ca  da  Mosto  ;  /.  21,  instead  of  "  Zorzi," 
read  Fracanzio  da  Montalboddo ;  /.  37,  read  Brevoortiana. 

Page  113,  /.  7,  instead  of  "  Recto  of  the  second  leaf"  read^  Recto 
of  the  first  leaf  in  signature  B  ;  /.  14,  itrike  out  "  First  recto 
of  signature  B  ;"  last  /.,  r^a^  Clarevallensi  {i.e.  Clairvaux  en 
I'ordre  de  Citeaux). 

Page  115,/.  27,  add  Biddle,  Memoire  of  Seb.  Cabot  (pp.  239, 
251,  corrects  many  mistakes  in  Madrignano's  translation). 

Ptie  120,/,  4,  after  "edition,."  add  says  Brunet  (Vol.   Ji,  col. 

3'8). 
Page  125,  note  19,  read  conocido  en  esta. 
Page  128,  note  *,  instead  of  '■'■  Instrucio"  read  Introducio ;  instead 

of  "  manductionum,"  read  rnanuductiowm ;  instead  of  "  vosi- 

geiia,"  read  vogesigena. 
Page  1 32,  /.  6,  read  Afcenftum. 
Page  137,  /.  13,  read  Novara. 

Page  138,  /.  5,  read  TC/  ||  fcrtU. 

Page  143,  /.  20,  instead  of  "  Georges,"  read  Gregory. 

Page  146,  /.  22,  read  UOUttCUCmet  I    /.  24,  instead  of  "  xix," 

read  XIX. 
Pa^e  147,  transpose  "  No.  85"  under  the  year  "  1510;"  /.  z^read 

kp  II  tiftc. 

Page  152,  note  *,  read  to  thee,  pilot  Tiphys !  and  instead  of 
"  Nebris,"  read  Lebrija. 

Page  154,  call  "  No.  88,"  88  bU. 

Page  155,  note  *,  instead  of  "  Octavius,"  read  Octavianus  ;  in- 
stead of  "  October,"  read  November. 

Page  156,  note  7,  read  Giovio. 

Page  isy,  I.  6,  read  auctioribus  ;  note  19,  /.  8,  read  douer  •■,  I.  9, 

read  guadagno. 
Page  161,  /.  15,  after  "  Agricola,"  add  [sine  anno  in  this  edition, 

but  dated  1512  in  those  of  1522  and  1540). 

Page  162,  /.  7,  instead  of  "  |EtrXbui,"  read  JEtJblij. 
Page  163,  /.  13,  add  New  York. 

Page  164,  /.  17,  read  nofcere  ;  /.  24,  read  uifa ;  /.  25,  read  uidebis. 
Page  165,  /.  17,  read  Chris  to. 

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-J.  Bibliotheca  Americana. 

Page  i66,  /.  lO,  >w^  inuentore. 

Page  167,  /.  12,  instead  of  nos,  read  uos  ;  note  *,  strike  out  "  for 

us." 
Page  177,  /.  3,  instead  of  "  ^IngllOttt,"  read  ^IttgUtttO. 
Page  181,  No.  108,  read  lIDArmUFA. 
Page  182,  /.  3,  read  Enarrationibus. 
Page  186,  /.  25,  instead  of"  Fontanelli,"  read  Foiitanini. 
Paee  187    /.  7,  read  Fracanzio  da  Monte  Alboddo  ;  /.   23,  read 

lOANNI  CATANAEO. 
Page  191,  /.  13,  read  Cautum ;  I.  28,  instead  of  "for,"  read  ioxX. 
Page  194,  /.  16,  read  one  hundred  and  three  +  one  unnumbered 

blank  lerff. 
Page  200,  /.  9,  after  "fc/,"  «^./|h  /.  il.read  iucudlllime  J 

/.  26,  instead  of  "  X,"  read  &. 
Page  208,  /.  9,  read  Gongora. 
Page  211,  mte<)S^  read  Cites  et  Ruines  Jmericaines,  Paris,  8vo, 

and  Atlas  fol.  1863. 
Page  212,  I.  H,  instead  of  "J.  L.  Maneiro,"  read  J.  A.  Maneiro. 
Page  218,  /.  12,  instead  of  "  No.  19,"  read  119  ;  note   138,  /.  2, 

instead  of  "  who,"  read  which. 
Page  220,  /.  13,  strike  out  "  with  no  little  emphasis." 
Page  222,  /.  8,  read  fin. 
Page  225,  /.  13,  read  Figueiro. 
Page  227,  /.  1 1,  read  Estevan  ;  /.  23,  read  Virgenes. 
Page  228,  /.  24,  instead  of  "  was,"  read  were  ;  /.  25,  read  seem. 
Page  229,  /.  3,  after  "the,"  «^^ tract. 
Page  242,  /.  18,  instead  of  "  No.  128,"  read  No.  129. 
Page  243,  /.  S  and  6,  place  a  contraction  over  the  "  q"  ;  /.  7, 
read  Deditione  ,•  /.  8,  read  Paradi/i,  and  miliarum ;  note  *,  instead 
of  "  Dedicated  to  Pope  John,"  rva^^  Concerning  the  dominions 
of  Prester  John. 
Page  251,  note  13,  /.  2,  after  "  siecle,"  add  [abbe  Pingret  ?] 

Page  255,  /.  14,  read  (gOpalO 


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Page  260,  read 


a  ]lart0  I'aqnelU  fait 

/.  7,  read 

ifit  ce  bentient  a  patis  par  i9i)elippe  le  iHoit  II 

1.  30,  read 

Nortoegl)^  fft  wne  svatic  region  afHfe  tieffoiiff 
tie  pol  Erctitiue. 

Page   261,   /.    I,   read  Ci)attatJ ;    /•   6,   read  (^XOmMttlt   tt 

TrJnimarcl)  on  a  grat 

Page  262,  /.  1 1,  reari  de  suivre. 

Page  269,  transpose  "  No.  147"  after  "  No.  149." 

Page  273,  /.  5,  read  iJalleariU. 

Page  276,  /.  20,  rfrtc/  novus  Orbis  ;    note  i,  r^rt^;/  Bulletin  de  la 

Soci'et'e  de  Geogr. 
Page  282,  /.  50,  instead  of  "  do  Martir,"  read  de  Martir. 
Page  286,  add  contractions  over  the  last  e  in  "  nouuellemet"  and 

over  the  a  in  "  Fernad."     (We  are  also  inclined  to  think  that 

in  lines  4,  9,  12,  "  ou"  should  read  au.) 
Page  292,  /.  10,  add  Folio. 
P(7^^  306,  make  two  separate  items  out   of  "No.    180,"    one 

Pflm,  the  other  Frib.  Brisg. 
Page  307,  /.  9,  read  offer  ||  uanza. 
Page  317,  /.  18,  after  "  sow,"  add  {Gomara). 
Page  319,  note  16,  instead  of  "  p.  240,"  read  p.  204. 
Page  325,  /.  2,  read 

DttMlbenig  bel  gan^etm 

Pa^«  326,  /.  3,  read  btet^jfigteit 

Page  327,  /.  I,  /vrt^/  Xerez. 


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Page  328,  /.  37,  instead  of  "  leros,"  read  lexos. 

Page  329,  /.  14,  strike  out  one  of  the  two  g  pOt  U  ptUtlCncia; 

w/^  3,  rz-fl^/  Espafioles. 
Page  330,  r^<J^  Xerez  and  Gaztelii. 
Page  331,  «<?/*  I,  /.  38,  read  otra. 
Page  317,  /.  7,  r?(7</  Contradura. 

Page  3ji  '•  3°.  "-'^d  (M.  A.) 

Ptf^^  340,  wff/^  7,  /.  3,  r^fl'/  Siciliano. 

Page  341,  /.  16,  >w^  VNiVERSALis  ;  /.  17,  r^-a^/  modernorvm. 

Pflf^  342,  /.  4,  read  meminere,  Elencho  ;  /.  5,  read  loachimum  ; 

/.  12,  after  "on,"  fl^^  verso  of;  /.  19,  rf(7(/ tralatione  ;  /.   20, 

r^a(^Mi-||chaele;  /.  25,  instead  of  varijo,  read  vari  and  add 

the  contraction  for  que. 
Page  343,  /.  5,  read  lectori  .  S  .  1|  ;  /.   7,  read  Brixienfi,  Bili- 

baldus;   /.    16  read  offira  ;   /.    17,  read  zinciber' ;  /.  20,  read 

Accole  loco  panis  vescunt ;  /.   21,  read  p'referentibus  ;  /.  33, 

read  ijsabella  [sic]  ;  I.  24,  read  Canibales. 
Page  344,  /.  2,  read  Villanova  ;  /.  3,  read  Tudela, 
Page  353,  strike  out  note  *.      (Stoeffler's  work   does  not  contain 

anything  relating  to  America.) 
Page  355,  /.    14,  instead  of  "  qvali/'   read  qvai.  ;  /.    20,  read 

Con. 
,   Page  357,  note  *,  /.  6,  instead  of  "  November,"  read  March. 
Page  358,  /.  7,  after  "  New  York,"  add  Brooklyn  ;  and  insert : 

225  bis,  RITHATMBRUS  (GEORG.)—"  Dc  orbis  ter- 
rarum  situ  compendium.  Norimbergae  [apud  Pe- 
trejum ;  scripsit  Viennaef]  4^0.  i  grav.  en  bois. 

**  P.  HI.,  de  terris  et  insults  nuper  repertis." 

(Brockhaus  Catalogue,  1866.) 

Page  362,  /.  13,  after  "  page,"  add  305  ;  /.  24,  read  pingui. 

Page  364,  /.  14,  read  fifty-five  ;  /.  21,  add  on  the  Gulf  of  St. 
Lawrence,  we  read  the  curious  inscription,  as  yet  unex- 
plained :   "  Per  hoc  fretum  iter  patet  ad  Molucas." 

Page  366,  /.  31,  read  escrivio  ;  /.  34,  read  religioso. 

■j-  V0S8IUS,  de  Mathtsi,  page  149. 


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Page  370,  /.  25,  after  "  No.  232,"  add  {tht  only  copy  known  of 
this  curious  book  exists  only  in  fragments.  These  are  pre- 
served in  the  library  of  Seflor  Vera,  at  Madrid).  ^ 

Page  374,  /.  4,  strike  out  "  OF." 

Page  375,  make  one  work  of  the  last  two  Molinas. 

Page  378,  /.  27,  read  toto  ;  /.  30,  read  adierit. 

Page  379,  /.  33,  read  Graesse». 

Page  387,  strike  out  lines  5  and  6.  (The  treatise  is  only  ad- 
dressed to  Schiiner,  while  the  authorship  is  generally  ascribed 
to  Rheticus,  /.  ^.,  Geo.  Joachimus.) 

Page  400,  /.  7,  instead  of  "  Frisius,"  read  Gemma  or  Revnier. 

Page  403,  /.  20,  read  Ventis. 

Page  404,  /.  22,  read  Ingelheim. 

Page  427,  No,  281,  read 

U  libra  J>e  ^xm^tya^  i) 

f|>|((l0  mem0r(lla8otat.enuebo 

feci)o  B  copilatjo  por  el  iWaeftro  iPc^ro  II 
tie  lEetiina  be^no  tie  ^eullla.  Birigitro 
al  Serenimmo  g  mug  efclareeitro  HS'eftor. 
DON  FILIPE  Principe  tre  iEfpafta,  ^c. 
i^ueftro  ^t^Qx,  II 

IK .  P .  rbiij .  II 

(Kindly  communicated  by  M.  D'Avezac] 
Page  431,  /.  16,  strike  out  one  of  the  two  H's. 
Page  440,  i/r/'^^  out  note  *.t 
P<7^^  444,  note  2,  /.  6,  rM^  Schreckenfuchsii. 


+  We  had  the  worii  examined  in  Paris,  piclted  up  at  a  book-stall  Ioan.  Nicol. 
d  the  report  is  that  Jac.  Goopyl's  French  Stupano's  version  of  the  same  work  (Ba- 
rsion  of  Alex.  Piccolomini's  Sfcra  del     sila,  ap.  Petrum  Ptrnam,  1 568,  4to,  10 11.  + 


an 
version 


Mondo   does  not  contain  anything  relating      150  pp.),  which  gives  on  p.  114  a  deacnp- 
to  America.     Yet,  as  late  as  yesterday,  we     tion  of  several  of  the  West-India  islands. 


ri8  Bibliotheca   Americana. 

Page  446,  /.  30,  read  Scriptores ;  L  33,  read  cxactis  ;  /.  36,  read 

Linguam;  /.  37,  read  comparavit  j  /.  41,  read  refert  i  /.  42, 

read  Evangeliorum. 
Page  447,  /.  24,  instead  of  "  on,"  read  ou. 
Page  452,  /.  28,  instead  of  "  nunc,"  read  num. 
Page  453,  /.  9,  read  Olivano ;  /.  I2,  read  artes  j  /.  13,  instead  of 

"  cui,"  read  Cui ;  /.  15,  read  comprabatus  ;  /.  17,  read  Gravis- 

simae,  efficacissimae. 
Page  454 ,  /.   28,  instead  of  "  Archinsi,"  read  Archinti ;  /.  29, 

read  iEgidii ;  in  the  note,  read  reso  talmente,  Richerche. 
Page  457,  l-  2,  a^er  1553,  add  [1556  ?]. 
Page  458,  last  word,  instead  of 

Page  461,  /.  I,   read  16  *» ;   /.  24,  read  Lilio -,  »«/*  I,  /•   5,  ^""^ 

stampa. 
Page  462,  colophon  of  22  bis  should  be  in  Roman  characters  ;  /. 

15,   instead    of  "  Imperial,"   read   Private  ;    /.   28,  strike  out 

"  above  a  large  vignette."     [The  vignette  is  between  lines  2 

and  3  of  our  p.  463]. 
Page  463,  lines  6  and  7  should  be  in  Roman  characters. 
Page  464,  /.  I,  in  No.  108  bis,  substitute  the  following  title,  just 

received  from  the  British  Museum  : 

Recto  of  A,  i: 

€  %  nm  mitxMt  mi  a  metg  of  tteii 

nature  of  Hje .  iiit.  elementr  tjcclargnse  mang 
pro  II  per  pointr  of  pt)Blofopi)B  naturall  i  anU  of 
tJBueriK  II  ftraungc  iantigs  i  anti  of  tiguers  ftraunge 
effectrrijcau/bi 

Page  465,  instead  of  the  title  in  No.  290,  substitute  the  follow- 
ing, copied  from  the  printed  original  just  discovered  in  the 
reserve  of  the  Imperial  Library  at  Paris,  and  kindly  communi- 
cated by  M.  D'Avezac  : 


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Emendanda  et  Corrigenda.  519 

200.    ALBENINO  (N.)— Recto  of  the  first  leaf,  within  a 
border,  and  above  a  woodcut  of  the  arms  of  the  Duke  of  Arcos : 

H^«*\A\^«*i%  II  w^^f^*'"-  ^^  ^"  ^"^^^= 

e  proultt-||cia»  ^l  peruin^ue  la  s  Mil  a  eUo» 
91  bi  ^es  Ulafco  II  uufte^  \)e(ait)afta  el  Tiei»|| 
tarato  g  muerte  tic  flon  II  calo  |)(carto.  {sic)  || 

The  title  given  on  page  465,  is  on  the  verso  of  the  original. 

KHgf-  These  are  the  errors  and  omissions  which,  up  to  the 
present  date,  have  come  to  our  icnowlcdge.  Should  some  of 
those  which  have  doubtless  escaped  our  notice  be  discovered  in 
time,  a  supplement  will  be  issued.  Meanwhile,  it  may  prove 
interesting  to  the  reader  to  be  informed  that  the  proof-sheets  of 
the  present  work  have  been  read  by  four  careful  proof-readers. 

We  also  avail  ourselves  of  the  present  opportunity  to  express  -^ 

our  thanks  for  the  skill  displayed  by  Mr.  John  N.  Sutherland, 
the  compositor  engaged  in  the  execution  of  this  work. 

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